Cellular 'Trash' May Be Awesome Pirate Loot To Researchers
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 15:28
in Biology & Nature
Identity thieves can learn a lot about you from your trash and so it goes that a cell's "trash" can yield treasures for biologists. Using a new technique they developed, scientists at University of Delaware's Delaware Biotechnology Institute analyzed the cellular waste of one of the world's most-studied plants and discovered formerly hidden relationships between genes and the small molecules that can turn them off. Read More...
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