Sci-Tech
Growing Meat Without Animals ... Would You Eat It?
Posted by: Dr. Mercola December 12 2009
Scientists have figured out how to grow tiny nuggets of lab meat and say it will one day be
Watermelon: Fruit on the Fast Track
ARS News ServiceAgricultural Research Service, USDAAnn Perry, (301) 504-1628, ann.perry@ars.usda.govDecember 11, 2009--View this report online, plus photos and related stories, at www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr--Follow us on Twitter ...
How Much Corn Stover can a Corn Grower Pick?
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ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Don Comis, (301) 504-1625, donald.comis@ars.usda.gov
September 21, 2009
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How much corn crop ...
Water Hardness Plays a Role in Removing Bacteria from Chicken Skin
ARS News ServiceAgricultural Research Service, USDASharon Durham, (301) 504-1611, sharon.durham@ars.usda.govJuly 23, 2009--View this report online, plus photos and related stories, at www.ars.usda.gov/is/prReducing water hardness may ...
Iceberg lettuce goes healthier
Friday May 22, 2009 (foodconsumer.org) -- Called the “polyester of lettuce,” iceberg lettuce has fallen out of flavor, so to speak, in recent years. In ...
ARS preserves plants and animals for future needs
By Kim KaplanMay 15, 2009When the Russian wheat aphid spread to the United States in 1986, all of the country's commercial wheat was susceptible to ...
New techniques developed for TSE testing
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemist Eric Nicholson and veterinarian Robert Kunkle have found a way to facilitate the diagnosis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), a ...
Botulism Assay Quickly Detects Potent Foodborne Toxin
Though cases of botulism food poisoning aren't common in the United States today, they're nonetheless of concern to food safety researchers. That's why Agricultural Research ...
Food supplements that fortify fowl
Poultry infected with the parasite Eimeria maxima usually develop avian coccidiosis, a disease estimated to cost producers globally more than $1.2 billion every year. So ...
ARS investigate genes involved in forming plum pits
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are making progress in determining the genes that control pit formation in plums--the first step in a project to develop ...


