Firefly tail extract fuels high value chemical trade
Firefly tail chemicals lucifrase and luciferin fetch about 20 dollars a gram, 560 dollars an ounce, and are in high demand for ATP measurement, cancer research, water quality, and space exploration. Sigma Chemical Co. reports about 300 tails yield a gram of extract, with annual reductions around 3.7 million micrograms.
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Dennis Montgomery
Associated Press
ST. Louis (Ap
Richard Vogel
Sigma Chemical Co
Vogel
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
First Facts and Records Seeker Kane Preserves American Firsts
Jose Nathan Kane, 77, a New Yorker and fact-detector, has spent 53 years collecting and debunking myths about early American firsts. His books, Famous First Facts and Records and Facts About the Presidents, catalog discoveries from lighter-than-air flight to the origin of Uncle Sam, with notes on errors in official histories.
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New York
Sam
George Washington
Wright Brothers
Jose Nathan Kane
New Yorker
Kane
United States
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Wellen
Kittyank
N.C
Samuel Wilson
Uncle Sam
U.S
Charlie McCarthy
Edgar Bergen
Northwestern University
Benjamin Franklin
Gerald R. Ford
Leslie Lynching
Walter Hunt
Isaac Singer
Hunt
Sir Walter Raleigh descendant visits Roanoke Island site
Lord Lothian, once a British Cabinet member, arrived at Roanoke Island to trace Raleigh’s doomed 1587 colony. He toured the Fort Raleigh site, met a welcoming delegation, and enjoyed shrimp salad and avocado at an oceanside restaurant after visiting the Elizabethan Garden.
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N.C
Sir Walter Raleigh
New World
Bess
Elizabeth I
Sir Walter
Raleigh
Lord Lothian
Roanoke Island
Outer Banks
North America
Jamestown
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
Oceanside
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