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Startup Aims to Bring Useless Farmland Back to Life
Posted on July 10th, 2010 No comments
The company is developing crops that tolerate salty soils.Around the world, a billion acres of agricultural land lay abandoned. In the United States, 15 million acres of cropland falls under this category. Decades of repeated irrigation and declining water quality have made much of this once-productive land too salty to support plant growth. Among the strategies to put this land back to use is to develop crops that can tolerate high-salinity soils. Read the rest of this entry »
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Startup That Builds Biological Parts
Posted on October 9th, 2009 No comments
Ginkgo BioWorks aims to push synthetic biology to the factory level.In a warehouse building in Boston, wedged between a cruise-ship drydock and Au Bon Pain’s corporate headquarters, sits Ginkgo BioWorks, a new synthetic-biology startup that aims to make biological engineering easier than baking bread. Founded by five MIT scientists, the company offers to assemble biological parts–such as strings of specific genes–for industry and academic scientists. Read the rest of this entry »
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