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Digesting the fungal genomes

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Fungal remediation of contaminated war zones

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by chris ellison · No Comments

Depleted uranium (DU) from spent ammunition used in the conflicts in Iraq and the Balkans poses a health risk to the inhabitants of those regions. This paper in Current Biology from Marina Fomina et al shows that several species of fungi including one from the mycorrhizal genus Rhizopogon

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Platypus genome

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · No Comments

Neil has a great summary of the results from the Platypus genome sequencing project.

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