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The Pesticide That Kills Bugs And Might Help Fight Cancer
2015-08-04 12:06:57| Biotech - Topix.net
Marc Rist, a Bayer AG CropScience employee, examines nematode-infested cucumber, carrot and lettuce roots in a Bayer AG laboratory in Monheim, Germany Nematodes, which gnaw at peanut and cotton roots, first drew Bayer's attention for destructive purposes. Researchers devised an insecticide that starves them of oxygen to wipe out a pest blamed for $100 billion in crop damage every year.
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Category:Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals