$125 million bioenergy initiative powered by Midwest ag industry, MSU research
... MSU will partner with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in establishing the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), one of three new U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers (BRC). The center, based in Madison, will be funded with $125 million over five years. MSU will use approximately $50 million for basic science res...2 MSU professors spearhead international water project
... ... With the biggest funding of its kind a $2.5 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the team leaders are bringing together domestic...Producing flu vaccines will be faster and cheaper, thanks to MSU technology
... ... <p...Nice guys do finish first in lizards' evolutionary race, says MSU professor
EAST LANSING, Mich. Getting beaten up by the neighborhood bully so your buddy can spend time with the ladies may seem like a rough life, but that strategy not only works for some lizards, it also gives a fascinating peek into hard-wired altruism in evolutionary biology....... Side-blotched lizards spend their year on earth looking to reproduce, and their strategies have lessons about evolution....MSU researchers shake out basis for rice domestication
Michigan State University scientists have identified the genetic mutation that reduces grain shattering during rice domestication research that will improve production of the crop that feeds more than half of the world's population....... In an article on the cover of the March 31 edition of Science Magazine, MSU scientists, led by Tao Sang, associate professor of plant biology, identify for the...MSU entomologist appointed to unravel mysterious tropical disease
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- A tropical skin disease nicknamed "the sore that heals in vain" wreaks both physical and social mayhem mostly on children yet its transmission is a mystery, one an MSU researcher and his recent research associate hope to solve. ...... Richard Merritt, chairperson of the Michigan State University Department of Entomology, and Eric Benbow, now at DePauw University in India...MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions
EAST LANSING, Mich. u A collaboration of Michigan State University researchers will use a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to uncover the functions of genes in a plant C research which may ultimately lead to improvements in human health and agriculture....... In a collaborative effort spanning several departments, MSU scientists will determine the functions of roughly 4,400 n...EAST LANSING, Mich. - From person to piranha to petunia, it's pretty easy to spot different species in the human-scale part of the plant and animal kingdoms. But a new study shows that species differences aren't so clear, at least as currently measured, when it comes to microscopic bacteria. ...MSU researchers have spotted significant differences in genetic libraries among thought-to-be similar...