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Bacteria Make More Electricity

October 8, 2003 Comments Off Posted in: General Biotechnology

Bacteria Make More Electricity Researchers from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have identified a microorganism that is particularly good at converting sugars to electricity under natural conditions.

Geneticists hunt control patterns

October 7, 2003 Comments Off Posted in: General Biotechnology

Geneticists hunt control patterns The Human Epigenome Project will look for patterns in our ‘life code’ that are associated with gene regulation but are also implicated in causing disease. Researchers at Epigenomics AG in Berlin and the Sanger Institute in Cambridge will take part in the five-year study.