DuPont's first biologically derived polymer receives global recognition
...bric manufacturers. More than 1,000 products from multinational and local companies were considered for this recognition. The judging panel commented, "Chemical fibers can now be made with natural ingredients. This will reduce the dependency of traditional chemical fiber products on oil resources. It will be ...DuPont announces research agreement with India's National Chemical Laboratory
...CL dates back to 1993 when DuPont became the first multinational company to partner with CSIR through NCL to advance polyester research in India. With over 300 full-time Ph.D. scientists on staff and 360 students pursuing doctoral degrees, NCL is globally respected for its expertise in chemical and material scien...Israeli, U.S., German researchers unveil remarkable behavior of ocean plankton
...ory fishes, whales and humans. The results of the multinational research project were captured during three experiments lasting several weeks at two sites in the Red Sea, near the coral reef of Eilat in Israel and at Ras Burka off the coast of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. At the sites, scuba divers attached Fish TV's...Secret sex life of killer fungus?
...ty to reproduce sexually, but new discoveries by a multinational group of scientists indicate that the fungus has a number of characteristics of sex. The possible presence of sex in the species is highly significant because it may affect the way researchers study--and try to control--disease associated with the fu...$16 million grant advances nanomedicine at Washington University
...te sector companies including Kereos Inc and large multinational corporations including Philips Medical Systems.The SCCNE will be housed in a newly constructed biotechnology laboratory complex on the east edge of the School of Medicine campus. Developed by CORTEX, the Center of Research, Technology & Entrepreneuri...Genetic research remains hidden
...Pan, of Shandong Provincial Hospital, China, and a multinational team of colleagues investigated studies that had been done on thirteen "gene-disease associations" (i.e., links between specific genes and certain diseases). They first looked at the studies on these 13 gene-disease associations that were published ...Gene linked with precursor to visual loss
...lar debris in the back of the eye), according to a multinational team of researchers. Several research groups recently showed that CFH increases the risk for advanced AMD. However until this study, the relationship between CFH, soft drusen, and advanced AMD was unclear. In an article to be published online on No...Satellites support businesses working for sustainable development
...iness activities. ESA has begun working with large multinational companies including Alcan, AMEC, Aon, B&Q, Lafarg... other business markets, either for Shell or other multinational clients. The services will undergo independent audits by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Sustainabili...Yale dean addresses biggest environmental threats in new book
...ns, non-governmental organizations, scientists and multinational corporations have created an unprecedented set of laws and institutions intended to help solve large-scale environmental problems. Global Environmental Governance is the first in the Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies series produced b...Study supports 'urgent' need for worldwide ban on lead-based paint
...available for purchase in this study, several U.S. multinational paint companies are among the top in Asia and some Asian paint companies have arrangements with U.S. companies. "American companies need to take a stand and encourage their international collaborators to demand lower lead contents in consumer produ...Costa Rican environmental leader to receive new conservation award
...vernment, Colombia, Panama and Ecuador to create a multinational conservation program in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. He helped lead a worldwide effort for a proposed U.N. moratorium on high seas bottom trawling that will be discussed later this year by the U.N. General Assembly, and he pushed through laws to b...Computational analysis shows that plant hormones often go it alone
...a used by Chory's team were collected as part of a multinational effort known as the AtGenExpress project cataloguing gene expression in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, which has become the lab mouse of the plant world. The laboratory of Detlef Weigel, Ph.D., an adjunct professor in the Laboratory for Plant ...JDRF forms partnership with MacroGenics
... to $2 million in funding for the "Protg" trial: a multinational Phase II/III clinical trial of a proprietary MacroGenics compound that has shown promise in slowing the progression of type 1 diabetes in children and adults newly diagnosed with the disease. Specifically, the trial will test teplizumab, an anti-CD3...Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu
...ne the virulence of a virus; and Test whether the multinational collaboration can establish a successful, large-scale, distributed computational data grid. Scientists at UC San Diego, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)...No pain, DOE Joint Genome Institute gains coveted ergonomics prize with 'Shake 'N Plate'
...cord field of 28 finalists representing many major multinational companies, a team of scientists and engineers from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) won the 2007 Ergo Cup. DOE JGI's "Shake 'N Plate" instrument took the prize for the "t...Dinosaur extinction didn't cause the rise of present-day mammals, claim researchers
... of the mammals we see on the earth today. The multinational research team has been working for over a decade to compile the tree of life from existing fossil records and new molecular analyses. They show that many of the genetic 'ancestors' of the mammals we see around us today existed 85 million years ago, a...UAF researchers garner $6.5 million in NSF grants
...dation grant will enable the interdisciplinary and multinational AON group to establish two landscape-level observatories, link the data from these and other polar observatories to form a circum-Arctic network and produce a comprehensive description of the state of the regional Arctic systems. The AON group will a...Famous Galpagos tortoise, Lonesome George, may not be alone
..., may not be alone for much longer, according to a multinational team of researchers headed by investigators at Yale University. New research led by biologists Adalgisa Caccone and Jeffrey Powell in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale, with the strong support and cooperation of the G...MIT-led team uncovers malaria mechanism
... National Science Foundation. Multidisciplinary, multinational research at the intersections of engineering, life sciences and medicine, with major implications for public health is "exactly what GEM4 was designed to facilitate and accomplish," Suresh said....Satellite images show destroyed and threatened villages in Darfur
...ging the United States and others to back a larger multinational peacekeeping force in Darfur. The Eyes on Darfur Web site will be launched 6 June to coincide with a presentation on the project during the Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Arie...