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WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute has announced its 2009 sequencing projects, including pine trees and duck weed.
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a fungus responsible for deteriorating fabric in the South Pacific during World War II could boost ethanol production.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., May 5 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have found a biomass-degrading fungus has few genes used to break down plant cell walls, providing a possible use in biofuel production.
WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- U.S. government scientists have completed DNA sequencing of a fungus that forms a beneficial symbiosis with trees in North American and Eurasian forests.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., June 3 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have extracted and decoded the DNA of a cave bear dead for 40,000 years, but doing the same for dinosaurs remains science fiction.
Canadian researchers have devised a way to prevent the unwanted spread of genetically modified crops, a mini-eclipse will occur Wednesday as Mercury passes in front of the sun, and other news of modern science.
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