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BST This Week #19: Smelly Grass Fights Off Bugs
Fri, 09/26/2014 - 8:30am
On this episode of Bioscience Technology This Week:
Smelly Grass Fights Off Bugs
The smell of cut grass in recent years has been identified as the plant’s way of signaling distress, but new research says the aroma also summons beneficial insects to the rescue.
Modified Vitamin D May Fight Pancreatic Cancer
A synthetic derivative of vitamin D was found by Salk Institute researchers to collapse the barrier of cells shielding pancreatic tumors, making this seemingly impenetrable cancer much more susceptible to therapeutic drugs.
