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Christoph Benning on Fox News - GMO Foods


Christoph Benning and a team of researchers have successfully engineered a plant with oily leaves -- a feat that could enhance biofuel production as well as lead to improved animal feeds.



Michael Feig wins CASP protein structure prediction competition


Jared Elenbaas wins LBC Undergraduate Research Award
See News.


Drs. Foley, Jones, and Stoltzfus receive CNS Awards
See News.



Professors Benning and Last participate in Plant Sciences Summit II at HHMI
See News.


The recent publication,"Molecular dynamics and mutational analysis of the catalytic and translocation cycle of RNA polymerase", by Maria L. Kireeva, Kristopher Opron, Steve A. Seibold, Celine Domecq, Robert I Cukier, Benoit Coulombe, Mikhail Kashlev and, Zachary F Burton in BMC Biophysics 5:11, has been cited as a "Highly Accessed" article by www.biomedcentral.com




Researchers in the Henry and Arnosti laboratories recently uncovered a surprising connection between protein destabilization through the ubiquitination pathway and transcriptional repression, mediated by the Drosophila Rbf1 retinoblastoma (RB) tumor suppressor protein. This research may lead to better understanding of human cancer through mutations in the RB pathway. See JBC and MSU Today.


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