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In Sweet Breakthrough, Scientists Led By Makers of M&Ms Sequence the Chocolate Genome

16th September 2010

Read it.

Who cares about the corn genome when you can study chocolate instead?

The genome sequence, which enters the public domain today, is the result of a partnership among a few unlikely bedfellows: Mars Inc., maker of M&Ms, Milky Way bars and other treats; the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service; and IBM. The trio hopes international agricultural researchers will immediately start refining the sequence. As with any gene mapping project, decoding the complete genome will take some time.

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4 Responses to “In Sweet Breakthrough, Scientists Led By Makers of M&Ms Sequence the Chocolate Genome”

  1. RealRick Says:
    September 16th, 2010 at 11:04

    The first part of the DNA sequence is: blue-blue-red-orange-brown-red-yellow…..

  2. Tim of Angle Says:
    September 16th, 2010 at 11:12

    The blue parts are a deliberately-introduced mutation. I prefer Heirloom Chocolate, without the blue parts.

    I hate blue parts.

  3. RealRick Says:
    September 16th, 2010 at 14:04

    And yet you rose to the defense of the blue tits.

  4. Tim of Angle Says:
    September 16th, 2010 at 15:19

    No, I just said I worried about it. I’m a worrier.

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