GLOBAL – Universities offer commercially valuable research to businesses worldwide – new projects
April 1st, 2008
By Monica Dobie
University World News here again features a selection of commercially important and cutting edge higher education research developments.
*Researchers from the Max Planck Institute, Germany, have developed a genetic tool that can help speed the development of new genetic varieties of food crops. The process is called gene silencing and involves unwanted genes being blocked during the breeding of a plant. It has been successfully trialled in rice.
This specific gene silencing technique uses microRNAs to alter the abilities of messenger RNAs, ...
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