BLUE ROSES
January 1st, 2003
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKATHE NASHVILLE-BASED Vanderbilt University School of Medicine may have discovered a human protein that could hold them create the holy grail of the flower industry: a blue rose. Researchers have discovered an enzyme taken from a human liver that can turn bacteria blue. Scientists at the American university are now trying to insert this gene into roses and are talking to US biotech companies, although, thus far, they have only managed to introduce blue spots onto the stems. Biochemist F. Peter Guengerich said in the San Jose Mercury ...
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