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Archive for September, 2008

One Word: Bioplastics | The Technology Gains Momentum, But Hurdles Remain

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Research pushes back crop development 10,000 years (9/20/2008)

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Sweden says it aims to completely wean itself off oil within 15 years – without building new nuclear plants.
sweden | The Buckminster Fuller Institute

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What is a gene?

Even scientists define ‘a gene’ in different ways, so it comes as little surprise that the media also have various ways of framing the concept of a gene, according to a new study appearing in the October 2008 issue of EMBO reports.

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Even closely related plants produce their own natural chemical cocktails, each set uniquely adapted to the individual plant’s specific habitat. Comparing anti-fungals produced by tobacco and henbane, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered that only a few mutations in a key enzyme are enough to shift the whole output to an entirely [...]

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Scientists may have cured cancer last week.Yep.So, why haven’t the media picked up on it?
Scientists may have cured cancer last week – more on DCA
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