genetics

Researchers at Michigan State are trying to get corn-stover to digest itself after harvest. Doing so would mitigate the costly pretreatment steps needed for the production of cellulosic ethanol from the non-edible parts of the corn plant.

Does anyone think this is actually a good idea? 

If you worry about al-Qaeda infiltrating the Amish farming community or the organic food movement, you can finally relax. The Bush administration will leave no chicken behind . . .

In a new scientific technique that could prove a boon to legal cases, samples of DNA from a healthy person can be compared against a claimant’s DNA.