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On Oct. 22, 2024, Utah State University researchers Paul Rogers and Darren McAvoy announced they have conducted the…
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On May 22, 2013, researchers from the Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer Agency, the University of British…
On Mar. 27, 2013, researchers at the University of British Columbia and Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre…
On Sept. 30, 2010, Utah State University geneticist Karen Mock announced that testing of a forest-size collection of…
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On Apr. 22, 1990, the second Earth Day was celebrated by more than 225 million people. The first…
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In 1987, Dr. Robert Thornburg at Iowa State University (ISU) prepared transgenic tobacco plants expressing a gene that…
In 1984, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that if you genetically engineer any microbe intended for…
In 1982, the WISEST (Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science & Technology) began at the University of Alberta when…
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On Jun. 14, 1972, an end to the continued domestic usage of the pesticide DDT was decreed when…
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In 1921, the Alberta Research Council (ARC), was founded by a provincial government Order-in-Council as the Scientific and…
In 1876, the University of Colorado (CU), and includes three unique campuses — Boulder, Colorado Springs, and the…
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