{"id":17582,"date":"2012-07-24T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T20:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=17582"},"modified":"2012-07-24T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T20:13:26","slug":"research-chair-hits-virtual-airwaves-with-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/07\/research-chair-hits-virtual-airwaves-with-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Research chair hits virtual airwaves with podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Science Magazine recently produced a podcast interview with Vincenzo De Luca, Canada Research Chair in plant biology.<\/p><\/div>\n

Vincenzo De Luca’s work has appeared many times in many journals.<\/p>\n

But it was the podcast interview – his very first – on Science magazine’s website<\/a> that he says has the potential to generate a lot of buzz.<\/p>\n

“I think one of the things that this type of a podcast in such a journal means is that there is a very wide audience that gets to hear about your published article and your research,” he says.<\/p>\n

“It may create new opportunities for collaboration with people you normally wouldn’t interact with. I got a whole bunch of requests for re-prints, people who agree with some of the points of view that I put forward in the article, and people who are saying that we hope this is going to help the developing world.”<\/p>\n

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Vincenzo De Luca<\/p><\/div>\n

De Luca, who is a Canada Research Chair in Plant Biology<\/a>, co-authored an article published in the June 29 issue of Science, titled “Mining the Biodiversity of Plants: A Revolution in the Making.”<\/a>
\nIn it, he and his colleagues argue that the availability of increasingly inexpensive gene-sequencing equipment allows researchers to expand their search for the production of medicines from plants.<\/p>\n

Throughout most of human history, all drugs were natural. De Luca says that, until recently, the trend has been for single-ingredient drugs to be produced from metabolites – or small molecules – found in plants.<\/p>\n

But in recent years, synthetic molecules have replaced natural extracts, particularly in developed countries.<\/p>\n

Dr. De Luca and his colleagues say that only a small fraction of plant metabolism – immense in its diversity – has been explored for the production of new medicines and other products.<\/p>\n

“The trend today really involves the identification of biosynthetic pathways and trying to harvest all the genes involved in a relevant pathway, and then transferring the pathway from the plant of origin to a host that may be an industrial bacterial strain, a yeast strain, or maybe even another plant,” he told Science interviewer Edward Hurme during the podcast.<\/p>\n

Vincent De Luca’s podcast can be found at: http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/336\/6089\/1658\/suppl\/DC1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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