News tagged with corn vaccine

Pigs, people may soon eat their way to flu resistance, say researchers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from Iowa State University is putting flu vaccines into the genetic makeup of corn, which may someday allow pigs and humans to get a flu vaccination simply by eating corn or corn products.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Genetically altered salmon? It doesn't stop there

(AP) -- We've always played with our food - even before we knew about genes or how to change them.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 26

Microbes reprogrammed to ooze oil for renewable biofuel (w/ Video)

Using genetic sleight of hand, researcher Xinyao Liu and professor Roy Curtiss at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have coaxed photosynthetic microbes to secrete oil—bypassing energy and cost ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Top 10 Sci-Tech Stories Of The Decade

Discoveries, devices, and developments that have changed the way we view our world over the past ten years.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Farmers harness manure's gases to generate power

Where others see simply manure, Danny Kluthe smells money. Long before President Barack Obama promised the country that "we will harness the sun and the winds and the soil," Kluthe already had yoked the power of pig poop.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Discovery about fertilization points way to possible malaria vaccine

International investigations of an organism that one UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher calls a “silly little green scum” have led to key insights into the basic mechanisms of reproduction.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 25, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0

E.coli a future source of energy?

For most people, the name “E. coli” is synonymous with food poisoning and product recalls, but a professor in Texas A&M University’s chemical engineering department envisions the bacteria as a future source of energy, helping ...

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created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 1


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