Fungal factories may save hemlock forests
Reaching into a box glowing with fluorescent light, Stacie Grassano pulls out a tube. "This is a great one," she says, holding the clear plastic up to her face. Inside, a tree branch is speckled with white fluff. "It's growing really well," she says, handing it to Scott Costa. Costa brings the branch close to his eye. "Yes," he says, with a boyish grin, "this is a fungus success story." <...Single-Cell Complementation of Barley Mlo Mutants Using a PDS-1000/He Hepta System
Ralph Panstruga, Brigitte Schauf, and Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max-Planck-Institutfr Zchtungsforschung, Carl-von-Linn-Weg 10, 50829 Kln, Germanye-mail: panstrug@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de Transient expression via particle bombardment is widely used as a means of gene transfer to bacteria, yeast, animals, and plants. In...Mylan Wins Its Amlodipine Case With Pfizer
PITTSBURGH, Mylan Laboratories Inc. (NYSE: MYL) today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today granted its motion for a reversal of the district court judgment in its patent infringement litigation with Pfizer concerning amlodipine besylate. On February 22, 2007, the district court for the Western District of Pennsylvania had ruled in favor of Pfizer a...