From Salt Lake City, Utah, at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology
Consider it an attack on gas. Researchers are taking on the methane-making microbes that thrive in cow stomachs.
About 17 percent of the methane in the atmosphere comes from cows and other ruminants as they digest food, according to Razvan Dumitru of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and his colleagues.
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