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1)Supported by funds from the United Soybean Board, SIUC
biotechnologist David A. Lightfoot and his research team —
sometimes with scientists from other universities, sometimes
alone — have been looking for the gene or genes that could
make soybeans completely resistant to SCN, as the nematode
is commonly known. That search has taken on new urgency in
the face of what Lightfoot calls the “Omega Strain” of SCN.
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2)Curing
cancer, making people live to be 150,
designing perfect diets —
it’s all there in the chemistry between a cell and its
environment,” said biotechnologist David A. Lightfoot, one
of seven SIUC scientists who put together the National
Science Foundation grant application to buy the equipment...read
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Last update: July 31,2005. |
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