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UGA researchers build “living measuring sticks” to track impacts of engineered plants

RNA engineering has the potential to grow stronger, more resilient crops, but scientists still need to know how engineered plants impact their environment.  With $650,000 in new federal funding, University of Georgia plant biologist Chris Dundas is developing microbial biosensors—tiny environmental surveyors—to help answer that question.    Dundas's research team, along with Michigan State University chemical engineer and…
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UGA research team receives USDA APHIS funding for development of a rapid diagnostics platform for SARS-CoV-2

A person with COVID-19 might transmit SARS-CoV-2 to domestic cats and dogs (and perhaps other pets) in the same way that an infected animal could possibly transmit it to another individual. In addition, lions, tigers, pumas, snow leopards and non-human primates from zoos or wildlife refuges in the U.S. and other countries have been confirmed infected with SARS-CoV-2, while infections have also been reported in white-tailed deer, both wild and…
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