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The muchmaligned process of funneling federal funds towards projects championed by state and local Congressional delegations has accompanied federal appropriations bills for decades. If Kausch (a man who claims not to have watched TV since Richard Nixon resigned) twittered, he might have responded to McCains dismissive tweet with the fact that he and his team are using genes ferried into switchgrass cells by bacterial vectors, in order to shut down flower production in the plant so that pollen or seed cannot spread to other places or other plant species.\n Though UPenn has no formal policy barring its researchers from receiving earmarks and the school does lobby for Congressional money to build or renovate some research facilities, doing research with earmarked funds is "strongly discouraged," according to Fluharty.
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Science, Side of Pork
By the look of it, plant geneticist Albert Kausch's lab is like any other academic life science research space. Fume hoods and chemical-filled carboys line some walls, hulking freezers and gene sequencers stand against others. Graduate students and research associates scurry through the halls, pausing to stoop over and pipette at benches piled high with petri dishes.
Kausch, along with a passel of collaborators, research associates, and students, is seeking to make commercial-scale biofuel production a reality, while learning a little about sex determination genes in plants along the way. His team is trying to genetically engineer a variety of switchgrass, a fast-growing plant that is a prime candidate for a raw materia...See the full content of this document
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