As reported by TC Palm

HOBE SOUND — Encouraging organic farming in western Martin County to reduce the pollution running off into waterways such as the St. Lucie River emerged Thursday as one of the top new goals for the Martin County Commission in 2009.

“Organic farming has been an unbelievable growth industry over the last 10 years,” said Commissioner Sarah Heard. “It’s not like any other farming. It doesn’t pollute. It will clean up our waters, which will improve tourism, which will improve the economy.”

With 200,000 acres of agricultural land, Martin County could become the organic farming mecca of South Florida, Heard said. The county also could enlist experts from the Center for Organic Agriculture at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to assist local organic farmers.

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A bacterium found in soil is a showing promise as a way of delivering cancer drugs into tumours.

Spores of the Clostridium sporogenes bacterium can grow within tumours because there is no oxygen.

UK and Dutch scientists have been able to genetically engineer an enzyme into the bacteria to activate a cancer drug.

Experts said it would be some time before the potential benefits of the work – presented to the Society of Microbiology – were known.

The work is being presented to the society’s autumn conference at the University of York.

The spores grow only within solid tumours, such as breast, brain and prostate tumours and not in other tissue in the body, where oxygen is present.

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