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That's Great, But Does It Grow Euros?

Dec 19, 2006

This Thursday, officials will gather in Namur, Belgium, to plant the EuroTree. Kicked off four years ago, the EuroTree project aims to "celebrate the writing of the European Constitution, the arrival of new countries into the EU, and to remind ourselves of the importance of the European project [in] the first place," writes Marc Vidal of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

In a ceremony that will be presided over by Minister Philippe Busquin and Fotis Kafatos, the EuroTree is to be planted in soil gathered from all 27 countries comprising the EU (John Sulston, for instance, brandished the shovel on behalf of the UK). Now there's a soil sample that would make a great community sequencing project.

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