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Today's Globe: coal-fired plant, bacterium genome
A Somerset coal-fired power plant has won final state approval for a new technology that would sharply lower emissions of many pollutants - but not carbon dioxide, the key contributor to global warming.
Using off-the-shelf chemical compounds, scientists for the first time have constructed the entire genome of a bacterium, a key step toward their ultimate goal of creating synthetic life forms, researchers reported yesterday.
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Elizabeth Cooney covers health for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She
previously reported on business and was an editor at the paper. Earlier in
her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and
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