Nanotech on the Farm.

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      The article reports that Paula Hammond, a chemical engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Cambridge, Massachusetts with other scientists are designing a plastic storage bag lined with nano particles to increase the shelf life of tropical root vegetable, cassava of sub-Saharan Africa. It presents information on the trip funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to send Hammond and an international group of scientists to Kenya and Ghana to meet with farmers.