The Winnipeg, Manitoba, native also spent nine years as head coach of the University of Manitoba.

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The key enzyme targeted by the researchers, from the University of Manitoba is called NQO1.

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Frank Plummer and his colleagues from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg believe they have found it.

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"Biodiesel is the same thing as ethanol, but just on a smaller scale, "says Vaclav Smil, a University of Manitoba professor and author of Energy at the Crossroads.

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