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  • Three Biotech Scientists Win World Food Prize
    They were reportedly the first to discover that Agrobacterium tumefaciens , a soil microbe associated with such growths, carries a large DNA molecule that they dubbed "Ti plasmid," ...
    6-20-2013
  • Metagenomics May Hold Key to Novel Antibiotic Discovery
    from laboratory-cultured soil bacteria. But she says, these organisms represent only the tip (0.1%) of a microbiological iceberg; the vast majority of soil denizens are ...
    6-4-2013
  • Patent Eligibility of Biological Methods and Compositions
    ... On the other hand, new strains of bacteria or fungi, eg, isolated from some bit of water, soil, or mud, would not be eligible for patent protection under Section 101. The Supreme ...
    6-3-2013
  • Of Mutts and Microbes
    For example, there are bacteria normally found in soil that are 700 times more common in dog-owning households than in those without dogs." In total, the researchers identified ...
    5-23-2013
  • Two Proteins Found to Block Cancer Metastasis
    actually "poison the soil" by generating a microenvironment that blocks cancer cells from settling and growing in distant organs. The "seed and the soil" hypothesis proposed by ...
    5-1-2013
  • Hand-Held Homogenization Tool
    ... bead beating in a handheld tool-like format, for the first time thus allowing processing of the most difficult samples, such as corn kernels, seeds, and soil in situ. ...
    4-15-2013
  • GMO Rider: 'Monsanto Protection' or 'Farmer Sustainability'?
    ... review, plus removal of the GMO sugar beet seeds from farmers' soil in the meantime. ... herbicide use reduced harmful environmental effects of plowing, such as soil erosion. ...
    4-8-2013
  • Metagenomic Nucleic Acid Sample Prep
    New Tool Designed to Make It Easier to Work with Soil and Fecal Samples Metagenomic ... The most common starting materials in metagenomic extractions are soil and fecal samples; ...
    3-1-2013
  • Plant-Based Protein Biomanufacturing
    ... The economics are driven by high product expression yield; low proportional cost of biomass production using sunlight and soil as raw materials; supply security derived from the ...
    2-15-2013
  • Flesh-Eating Fungus' DNA Decoded
    during the Class EF-5 tornado, which initially killed 160 and injured more than 1,000. The common fungus, which lives in soil, wood, or water, usually has no effect on people. ...
    12-14-2012
  • Ventria Obtains Meristem's Recombinant Lactoferrin IP
    ExpressTec is also used to manufacture proteins in a growing plant, using sunlight for an energy source and soil, water, and air as raw materials. It has applications in the ...
    12-3-2012
  • Nucleic Acid Sample-Prep Tools Break New Ground
    ... Input can be a wide variety of samples: blood, tissue, insects, soil, or air filters. "The fluidic cartridges and the devices that we've developed allow us to do a lot of the basic ...
    10-1-2012
  • H3Africa, a Refreshingly Ethical Research Endeavor in Africa
    debates that we fail to acknowledge and address the ethical concerns arising from research on foreign soil. So let's take a moment and turn our eyes towards the African continent. ...
    9-6-2012
  • Agbiotech Is Working to Help Plants Cope with Global Warming
    such as temperature, precipitation, soil nutrients, and a growing incidence of a ... carbon sequestration, and utilization of soil macro- and micronutrients is imperative," ...
    8-22-2012
  • Use of Genetically Modified Alfalfa Unnecessarily Held Hostage
    ... Instead, they'd have to use a different herbicide or dig the plants out of the soil with hoes or a shovel. Some organic farmers are also concerned that cross-pollination could ...
    8-21-2012
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    Journal Articles

  • Thoracic Vertebral Osteomyelitis Caused by Burkholderia cepacia...
    Cheng-Ta Hsieh, Szu-Kai Hsu, Chih-Ju Chang
    Surgical Infections
    The source of the Burkholderia cepacia infection may have been the work environment with soil, water and plants. Conclusions: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case ...
  • Evaluation of the Infectiousness to Mice of Soil Contaminated...
    Karen A. Boegler, Christine B. Graham, John A. Montenieri, Katherine MacMillan, Jennifer L. Holmes, Jeannine M. Petersen, Kenneth L. Gage, Rebecca J. Eisen
    Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
    Evaluation of the Infectiousness to Mice of Soil Contaminated with Yersinia pestis ... How Y. pestis is maintained during interepizootic periods is poorly understood, but soil ...
  • Concentrations and Profiles of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins...
    Wenbin Liu, Wenjing Zhang, Sumei Li, Chao Meng, Fang Tao, Haifeng Li, Bing Zhang
    Environmental Engineering Science
    and Dibenzofurans in Air and Soil Samples in the Proximity of a Municipal ... A series of air and soil samples were collected at distances from 1.35 to 4.72?km from a ...
  • Effects of a Simulated Martian UV Flux on the Cyanobacterium...
    Charles S. Cockell, Andrew C. Schuerger, Daniela Billi, E. Imre Friedmann, Corinna Panitz
    Astrobiology
    1 day on Mars at the equator). Under 1 mm of simulant martian soil or gneiss, the effect of UV radiation could not be detected on esterase activity or autofluorescence after 4 h. ...

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