World's Largest Gathering Of Plant Scientists To Meet In St.Louis, August 1-7, 1999
...gether more than 5000scientists from more than 100 countries to probe how plant life impacts thestability and sustainability of all life on Earth. The Congress will meet in St.Louis, MO, on August 1 - 7, 1999. "All the critical elements of human life -- from growing food and buildingshelter, to preventing and...Genes Boost Rice Yields On Poorest Farms
...rs far from the regions where they areadapted. In countries like Brazil, she noted, the less productive yet sturdyupland varieties of rice thrive on subsisdence farms in acidic soils and even inareas prone to disease. She said that these traits could be valuable elsewhere,particularly in Asian countries, whe...Arctic indigenous leaders, scientists to study reindeer and caribou systems
...ibou hunters, scientists and policymakers from ten countries will gather next week (February 10 - 14) in Rovaniemi,Finland to discuss the role of humans in managing and protecting reindeer andcaribou, the most important land-based species for people living in the Arctic.The Arctic Centre of the University of L...Largest Acoustics Meeting In History Expected
...ve Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Signed by 149 countries at the end of 1996, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a global moratorium on nuclear weapons testing. To verify the treaty, scientists are building a worldwide network of 337 monitoring stations. At session 2aUWa, Martin Lawrence o...Should Great Apes Be Given Legal Rights?
... "The idea is to set a precedent that other countries can follow," saysDavid Penny, a theoretical biologist at Massey University in Palmerston Northand lead author of a submission to the New Zealand parliament from 38 of thecountry's scientists, lawyers and philosophers. Under current regulations, theon...Major Set-Back To Ozone Layer Recovery
...ol, designed to protect the ozone layer,developing countries such as China have until the year 2010 before they mustcompletely phase out halon production. "I anticipate that China will begin reducing halon production soon," says DrFraser. "Montreal Protocol calculations based on production data indicate thath...Findings Challenge Notion Of Withholding Food To Fight Rotavirus
...that the new vaccine maybe effective in developing countries wheremalnutrition is often present, Gaskins said. "It appears that malnutrition does not affect the ability of the host to mountan immune response, but it affects the ability ofthe host to clear, or turn down, the inflammation that follows in the int...Study Defines Scope Of Vaccine-Preventable Infections
...ines, however,often are not used in less developed countries because health care workers thinkthe diseases they prevent are infrequent or unimportant. Now, a group ofinvestigators from six INCLEN (International Clinical Epidemiology Network)academic hospitals in India, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins S...Sandia, University Of Montana Researchers Try Training Bees To Find Buried Landmines
...-120 millionlandmines currently are deployed in 70 countries worldwide,with an average 40,000 new landmines dep...r sources of water are littered with mines.In some countries professional mine prodders are paid a fewdollars a day to carefully poke the soil every few incheswi...Breakthrough On Microbial Disease Published In Science
...or boon to human health worldwide, particularly in countries wheremany people die from bacterial infections. While application to human vaccinesand antibiotics may be down the road a few years, Mahan sees significant impacton human health happening very soon -- through the food supply. It might bepossible, f...New Age Of Nutrition To Provide Food For Thought
...addition, culturaland regulatory differences among countries regarding dietary supplementmanufacturing, labeling, and use will be covered. The key scientific and regulatory issues related to marketing functionalfoods (ingredients or products that may offer health benefits beyond standardnutrients) in ...Journalists put 'hands on science'
...y reporting. Thirteen journalists from 12 European countries were invited to spend oneweek in the lab and to jo... toselect representatives from as many as possible countries and from the different fields of science journalism. Not only the chance toexchange with scientists ...Germany needs a national genome initiative
...promoting and utilising gene technologies in other countries and thesort of measures that must be taken in Germ...being made by means of novel products onlyin those countries that will be able to master these technologies and to providea home for appropriate companies. The i...New study finds link between decline in the city's TB rates and intensified control programs
...nerable to TB; increasednumbers of immigrants from countries with a high prevalence of TB; increasedpopulations of homeless persons and injection drug users; and decreased fundingfor TB control programs. During the six-year study period, TB was diagnosed in 2,051 persons in SanFrancisco. Of these, the team w...Green tea can help prevent rheumatoid arthritis
...c data, anecdotal evidence indicatesthat people in countries where green tea is consumed are far less likely to haverheumatoid arthritis, said the study's senior author, Hasan Mukhtar, professorof dermatology. In the United States, however, this debilitating disease has beendiagnosed in more than 2 ...Malaria called failure, puzzle and challenge
...tated. Today malaria is transmitted actively in 21 countries and territories in theWestern Hemisphere. But a new program, Roll Back Malaria seeks to cut deathsfrom malaria in half by the year 2010, according to Dr. Renato Gusmao, malariaexpert for PAHO. The plan aims to reduce malaria incidence by controlling...USGS scientist receives award for brucellosis research in Greater Yellowstone Area
...ited States. Consequently, said Roffe, states and countries that have successfully eradicated the disease may require extensive testing or forbid import of cattle from Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, which surround the Greater Yellowstone Area. Controlling and eliminating a disease in free-ra...Nearly half of Earth's land has been transformed by humans; 50 'dead zones' found in oceans
... Congresswhere more than 4,000 scientists from 100 countries are meeting to discuss thelatest research on plants for human survival and improved quality of life. Amongthe findings are: Close to 50 percent of the land surface of the planet has beentransformed by humans, such as filling in wetlands, converti...World's biodiversity becoming extinct at levels rivaling Earth's past 'mass extinctions'
... represented." More than 4,000 scientists from 100 countries are meeting at the InternationalBotanical Congress this week to discuss the latest results of research on plantsfor human survival and improved quality of life. Raven's remarks were made at apress briefing held prior to the "Millennium Symposium," wh...