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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:18:37 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Feeding the World: New Method for Producing High-Vitamin Corn Could Improve Nutrition in Developing Countries

Feeding the World: New Method for Producing High-Vitamin Corn Could Improve Nutrition in Developing Countries

Watercolor of corn with strands of DNA coming out.

Scientists have developed a potentially powerful new tool in the fight against deficiencies in dietary vitamin A, which cause eye diseases, including blindness, in 40 million children annually, and increased health risks for about 250 million people, mostly in developing countries.

This tool consists of "a new method of analyzing the genetic makeup of corn that will enable developing countries to identify and increase cultivation of corn that has naturally high levels of ...

More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110998&govDel=USNSF_51


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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:45:43 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Centers for Chemical Innovation Phase I (CCI-I)

Centers for Chemical Innovation Phase I (CCI-I)

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