Acid rain's dirty business: stealing minerals from soil
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A study of a new Hampshire forest shows that a its slow recovery from acid rain pollution, despite large reductions in power-plant sulfur emissions, was due to soil contamination. Gene Likens, Donald Buso and Charles Driscoll determined that the sulfur leached vital minerals from the soils.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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New biotech law shores up U.S. firms
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Pres Clinton signed into law a bill that makes familiar genetic engineering processes patentable if they use or produce a novel product. In the past a biotech firm could patent a gene and a host cell, but any company could use them to produce the desired hormone or other end-product.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
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New "guiding" protein discovered
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Scientists have identified a protein that maneuvers phenols so that plant cells form only one type of stereoisomer. The discovery could lead to techniques for producing artificial lignin, the glue that bonds trees.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1997
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