Fund Aims To Repay Developing Nations For Valuable Genes
...only new plant varieties,but also novel genes. The rights to commercialize these genes now can belicensed to...nd "genetic colonialism"from those championing the rights of developing countries and indigenouspeoples. "Although a lot of the genes used in biotechnology r...A New Biochemical Link Established Between Stress, Sex And Dominance
...e macho fish also gets the girl: He offers grazing rights to entice breeding females to lay their eggs in a ..., from sour stomach to heart disease. Territorial rights The Fernald lab is stacked with aquariums equipped to imitate the conditions of life in shallow poo...Guidelines For Next Generation Of Environmental Policy
...ch cover topics ranging from land use and property rights to technologicalinnovation, ecosystem protection and industrial ecology -- are based on thesepremises: To change behavior, policy makers must provide incentives for bothproducers and consumers, and adopt a "polluter-pays" approach funded by ...Maillinckrodt Medical Licenses Invention For Concentration Of Rhenium Radioisotopes
... Louis-based company sole commercial, field-of-use rights for the invention. With restenosis occurring in 25 percent to 30 percent of angioplasty patients, "the invention will help save time, lives and costs -- for both hospitals and patients," said Russ Knapp, principal investigator who led the team. The ...UNESCO Director-General Reaffirms That Human Cloning Is Contrary To Human Dignity
...rikes between guaranteeing respect for fundamental rights andfreedoms and the need to ensure the freedom of ...ional text to apply the ethical standards of human rights topotential interventions in the human genome. It expresses the desire of theinternational community...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...0/394-1811, fax 310/394-2410, http://hfes.org. All rights reserved. Photos available. INTRODUCTION One of the clearest ways to delineate a discipline is by its unique technology. At its recent workshop, the HFES Strategic Planning Task Force noted, as have others internationally, that the technology of hu...Low Cholesterol? Reduced Sodium? What Do These Terms Really Mean?
...2410, hfes@compuserve.com , http://hfes.org . All rights reserved. To obtain the fullarticle (with tables and figures), contact Lois Smith at the HFES office.] An Evaluation of Nutrition Label Quantifier Terms: Consumer Perceptions vs. FDADefinitions Marc L. Resnick, Industrial and Systems Engineering, ...Washington University Licenses Its New Antibacterial Technology
...armaceuticals Inc. that gives the companyexclusive rights to new antibacterial technology. The agreement will allow SIGAto develop an entirely new class of antibiotics that are less likely to besidelined by bacterial resistance than current therapies. It also provides threeyears of research funding to the W...Conservation Biology Clearinghouse, Engineering Design Tutor
...rs information ranging from NativeAmericans' water rights to new species of orchids to university degree programs. Thecenter is an international resource for conservation biology, and the official onlinelocation of the international Society for Conservation Biology. CCBN, located at http://conbio.rice.edu ,......e governing bodieshave yet to take a stand for the rights of the child. According to GlennMcGee, PhD, Associate Director of Education for the Center for Bioethics atthe University of Pennsylvania Health System, nowhere is this fact moreevident than in the discussion of cloning. At the annual meeting of theA......Harbor Branch grants Novartis exclusive,world-wide rights for the development, use, manufacture and sale of discodermolide for all potential therapeutic indications. Novartis will provideHarbor Branch with funding for continued research on discodermolide, as well asfuture payments based on developmental mi......inWillingboro, N.J. PHI holds exclusive worldwide rights to proprietaryRhizosecretion technology....First Reproducible Cloning Of Mammals From Adult Cells Reported In Nature
...gricultural purposes.ProBio has acquired licensing rights and research funding obligations fromthe University of Hawaii, and holds patents in the area of mammalian researchand for technologies in the related fields. More information on the companyis available at www.probioinc.com .......enteon Inc. holds a license granting themexclusive rights to the immunoassay technology. Other co-authors of the UCSF study included Holger Wille, PhD, VincenzaItri, BS, Darlene Groth, BS, Hana Serban, MS, and Marilyn Torchia, DVM.The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of He...Allelix drug increases bone density and content in women with osteoporosis
...y reacquired all development and commercialization rights to ALX1-11 fromAstra AB and is seeking a new corporate partner to develop and market the drug. Allelix Biopharmaceuticals Inc. is a Canadian based company with R&D facilitiesin Canada and the United States. The company discovers and developsbiopharm...Biotech Creates New Solutions And New Problems
...lores twoof them: how privatization of proprietary rights to key biotechnology willaffect public germplasm development, and how the problems of pest resistance mayaffect the long-term success of larvae-killing transgenic cotton. Genetic materials ranging from DNA sequences to whole plants, as well a......e plants is a crucial goal. Intellectual property rights lawyer Judith Butler, legal affairs officer in the...s and agreements relating to intellectual property rights can be finalized by that date. Though not directly related to the current project, the Seve...AAAS Report Attributes Majority Of Killings In Guatemala To State
...arances, as well as thousands of other gross human rights violations.Scientific methods allow those investigating human rights abuses to seeotherwise invisible patterns in the violence. Patrick Ball, deputy director of the AA...Should Great Apes Be Given Legal Rights?
...lling an international drive to wincertain "human" rights for all great apes. Backers of this crusade, known...t animals in the world withindividual, fundamental rights that will stand up in a court of law: the rightto life, the right not to suffer cruel or degrading t...Protestors Are Up In Arms Over Experiments That Give Chimps AIDS
...arly in the light of currentefforts to grant legal rights to chimps and other great apes (This Week, 13February, p 20). Prince hopes his letter to Science will provoke sufficientpublic outcry to prompt a moratorium on potentially terminal AIDSexperimentsinvolving chimps....