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Tufts University researchers revealed Tuesday that a member of their team violated ethics rules in a study designed to measure the nutritional efficacy of so-called "golden rice," genetically modified rice with the nutrient beta carotene added. NPR's science blog The Salt said that Tufts stands by the results of the study, but that one researcher in China broke the rules by not informing test subjects -- who were all children -- or their guardians that the food they were eating had been genetically modified.