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PET Plants: Imaging Natural Processes For Renewable Energy From Plants
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 | Presented by Ben Babst | 55:09
In this 480th Brookhaven Lecture, Goldhaber Fellow Ben Babst talks about how innovating scientists in the Lab's Medical Department are using a technique called positron emission tomography, or PET imaging — commonly used to diagnose cancer and study brain activity — to investigate plants' abilities to make substances for biofuels that could one day power our vehicles, homes, and industry. Read more
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