$2.5 million for new antibody technique
By Bob Grant $2.5 million for new antibody technique © tim tomkinson At North Dakota University, it was a flock of geese in the rural reaches of the upper Midwest that ended up attracting earmarked money from Washington, DC to Grand Forks. A goose farm 64 kilometers west of the university was looking for something it could do with all the leftover goose blood it was accumulating. The goose herders sought help from researchers at UND, and in 2008 they got

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From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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