It's synthetic europop of the kind Daft Punk evangelized on their Discovery album.
The researchers, reporting on their discovery in Nature, say it should be relatively easy to transfer the low-caffeine trait to commercial arabica varieties.
A team of researchers from I.B.M.'s Thomas J. Watson Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., said they would present a report at the conference based on their discovery of a different vulnerability in subscriber identification module, or S.I.M., cards.
They already hold two patents based on their discovery and are even working with the iRobot company in Somerville, Massachusetts, and the U.S. Department of Defense to build a wall-climbing robot.
Madras and Meltzer happened on their discovery while trying to design a compound that would bind to brain molecules called transporters, which absorb and recycle neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
Brown, though disappointed at being scooped, congratulated the Ortiz team on their discovery.
A report on their discovery appears in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
When the rumors turn out to be true, they set out to defend the sea creatures from a company that hopes to capitalize on their discovery.
