Aphid Research

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Channel: Mayo Clinic · 2009 · Science & Technology

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Medical scientists with the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics in are focusing their expertise on a pest that destroys soybeans. The goal of the Minnesota Partnership team is a human-safe insecticide that will knock out the soybean aphid, a bug thats been ravaging Minnesota crops.

Stephen Brimijoin, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic researcher on the team talks about the research.

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