Professor Kristala Prather, an expert in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, has been named the new head of MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering.
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A new study from MIT reveals that a peptide produced by some legumes helps them control nitrogen-fixing bacteria by sequestering all available heme, an iron-containing molecule. This sends the bacteria into an iron-starvation mode that ramps up their production of ammonia, the form of nitrogen that is usable for plants.
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