Monsanto's stock is up sevenfold since 2004 (trouncing Dow shares) thanks to its huge success selling seeds bioengineered to fight off bacteria and withstand direct application of Monsanto's own weed killer Roundup.

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He and Adam Brown, associate professor of electronic art and intermedia at Michigan State, found that the bacteria, Cupriavidus metallidurans, can withstand concentrations of gold chloride 25 times higher than previously reported by scientists.

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