Evidence is mounting that 251 million years ago, long before dinosaurs dominated the Earth, a meteor the size of Mount Everest smashed into what is now northern Australia, triggering mass volcanic eruptions and wiping out all but about 10% of the species on the planet. The “Great Dying” was by far the most cataclysmic extinction […]
Chemical engineers at Purdue University have shown how to make yeast cells double the activity and boost productivity of a type of enzyme plants need to create important chemicals such as anticancer compounds. The work is related to efforts aimed at developing techniques to use plants and microorganisms as natural factories for producing pharmaceuticals. Such […]
