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Full genome map of oil palm indicates a way to raise yields and protect rainforest; single gene controls oil palm yield

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The international team’s work is detailed in two papers published in the journal Nature. The discovery was made by researchers at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), an agency of the Malaysian federal government, in conjunction with scientists at St. Louis-based Orion Genomics. Rajinder Singh et al.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Doug Engelbart [of SRI International Inc. and Toronto, Ont.,

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