Tag Archives: dna sequencing

Plant microbe shares features with drug-resistant pathogen

Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by admin.

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Implications for biotech applications; possible targets for infection-fighting drugs
UPTON, NY — An international team of scientists has discovered extensive similarities between a strain of bacteria commonly associated with plants and one increasingly linked to opportunistic infections in hospital patients. The findings suggest caution in the use of the plant-associated strain for a range of biotech [...]

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Random picks better than complicated process in gene identification

Posted on 08. May, 2009 by admin.

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers at Purdue University have found a way to save time, money and a little frustration in searches for specific genes that shed light on the biological processes associated with all forms of life.
Andrew DeWoody, a professor of genetics, and postdoctoral associate Matthew C. Hale have provided evidence that a step [...]

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