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Plants engineered for optimal biofuel production
Arabidopsis may seem like a simple plant, but at the University of Missouri, plant biochemist Jay Thelen is using it as a powerful model to explore ways to boost oil production—an important step toward creating more sustainable, plant-based energy sources.
To meet the increasing global demand for biofuels, scientists are already modifying plant genes to boost the amount of plant oil being produced. That’s because inside the plant, a complex network of metabolic pathways turns sunlight, carbon dioxide (or atmospheric carbon), water and nutrients into vital compounds including oil, the foundational ingredient of biofuel.
Genes give instructions to enzymes, and, in turn, those enzymes help control the plant’s metabolic pathways. But we are only beginning to understand how modifying these genes to produce more oil affects the plant’s other metabolic pathways, which are all interconnected.
Cauchy sequence
In mathematics, a Cauchy sequence is a sequence whose elements become arbitrarily close to each other as the sequence progresses. [ 1 ] More precisely, given any small positive distance, all excluding a finite number of elements of the sequence are less than that given distance from each other. Cauchy sequences are named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy; they may occasionally be known as fundamental sequences. [ 2 ].
Breakthrough gene therapy jab reverses hearing loss in weeks
Researchers also found that the treatment was safe and well-tolerated. Participants did not report any serious adverse reactions in the follow-up period of 6–12 months.
The most common reaction was a reduction in the number of the immune system’s neutrophils, a type of white blood cell.
“OTOF is just the beginning,” Dr Duan said, adding that researchers were working on other common genes behind deafness such as GJB2 and TMC1.
