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Nature 438, 264-265 (17 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438264b; Published online 16 November 2005
Open Innovation Challenges
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Protect Enzyme from In Planta Degradation
A proposal for stable expression of an enzyme in corn seed is desired.
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Efficient Chromosome Doubling: Plant Cell Division
The Seeker is looking for an efficient chromosome doubling method in plants and in particular, metho...
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CERC in Developmental Immunology and Immunosenescence
- Dalhousie University
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
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- Philip Morris International (PMI)
- Neuchatel, Switzerland
Small conferences pay their way
Kendall Powell
The time and money spent attending small scientific meetings is more than paid back through accelerated research, suggests a survey by a conference organizer."The presumption is that meetings are beneficial, but the actual data to say that something positive happens are pretty scarce," says James Aiken, president of Keystone Symposia, the non-profit meetings organization in Silverthorne, Colorado, that carried out the survey.
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