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Bioengineering
Ragweed Research is Nothing to Sneeze At
October 8th, 2007
To a person with a pollen allergy, an 18-acre ragweed field sounds like a sneezy, red-eyed zone of misery. But to two environmental engineering researchers at Johns Hopkins, the parcel presented a rare and valuable opportunity to learn how the troublesome weeds grow, reproduce and scatter their pollen under varying weather conditions. Their findings, gathered with a mix of high-tech and low-tech tools, could lead to better ways to track the pollen’s travel and control the pesky plant’s spread, discoveries that could aid the 15 million people with ragweed allergies in the United States and Canada alone. And although the plant is native to North America, the nuisance...
Source: Biotech Business Week (2007-10-08)
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