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Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production

Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By creating a 'family tree' of genes expressed in one form of woody plant and a less woody, herbaceous species, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...





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Kangaroos may hold skin cancer cure: study

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kangaroos may provide the key to a potential treatment to prevent skin cancer, Australian scientists said Monday.


Researchers reconstitute enzyme that synthesizes cholesterol drug lovastatin

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time successfully reconstituted in the laboratory the enzyme responsible for producing the blockbuster cholesterol-lowering ...


Developing enzymes to clean up pollution by explosives

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of York have uncovered the structure of an unusual enzyme which can be used to reverse the contamination of land by explosives.


Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production

Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brookhaven scientists have created a new enzyme with the potential to interfere with a key cell-wall component in plants, possibly leading to plants that are easier to "digest" and convert ...


New hope for advances in treating malaria

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Leeds have developed chemicals which kill the most deadly malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum - including those resistant to existing drugs.


E. coli engineered to produce important class of antibiotic, anti-cancer drugs

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created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have taken a major step forward in the field of metabolic engineering, successfully using the bacterium Escherichia coli to synthesize a clas ...


Enzyme detectives uncover new reactions, products

Enzyme Detectives Uncover New Reactions, Products

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created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If your experiment doesn't go the way you expect, take a closer look -- something even more interesting may have happened. That strategy has led scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...


'Green' hair bleach may become environmentally friendly consumer product

'Green' hair bleach may become environmentally friendly consumer product

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists from Japan today reported development of what could be the world's first "green" hair bleach, an environmentally friendly preparation for lightening the color of hair on the head and other parts ...


Cow stomach holds key to turning corn into biofuel

Cow stomach holds key to turning corn into biofuel

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created Apr 08, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (30) | comments 9

An enzyme from a microbe that lives inside a cow’s stomach is the key to turning corn plants into fuel, according to Michigan State University scientists.


Chemists engineer plants to produce new compounds

Chemists engineer plants to produce new compounds

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created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In work that could expand the frontiers of genetic engineering, MIT chemists have, for the first time, genetically altered a plant to produce entirely new compounds, some of which could be ...



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