Marijuana Plant Sequenced
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
At last, the field of genomics has something to offer Cheech and Chong. DNA sequencing hit a new high last night with the midnight release of the Cannabis sativa genome. The raw sequence was posted on Amazon’s EC2 public cloud computing service by a young company called Medicinal Genomics , which aims to explore the genomes of therapeutic plants. [More]