Wine and biotechnology come together in yet another genome project.
At the end of the week, thoughts turn to the more relaxing things of life, and the chance to wine down, make that wind down, with a glass of fermented grape juice. This comes together with our workaday interest in the neat things you can do with technology in a story that appears on USATODAY.com.
With the headline Wine researchers using biotechnology, the piece reports on the new Center for Grapevine Biotechnology at Missouri State University. It turns out that these people are a part of the International Grape Genome Program. It may not have the excitement of the human genome project, but we like the idea all the same.
Actually, if you visit the centre's web site you will read that one of their goals is to "Explore and identify health-promoting compounds in native grapevine species." Now, that sounds like an investment opportunity worth pursuing.
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