Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide, study finds
...e malnourishment and disease susceptibility of 3.7 billion people, he says. David Pimentel, Cornell professor...pared with 20 percent of a world population of 2.5 billion in 1950, said Pimentel. Malnutrition is not only the direct cause of 6 million children's deaths eac...New textbook illuminates the close links between evolutionary and molecular biology
...igin and diversification of life over the past 3.5 billion years, and explain the fundamental mechanisms underlying evolutionary change. The final section is devoted to human evolution and diversity, merging recent insights from molecular techniques with paleontological evidence. For a complete table of co...OHSU turns mouse into factory for human liver cells
...esting candidate drug compounds is estimated at $2 billion a year, according to a business plan for Yecuris. That's because the liver is the principal site for the metabolism of drug compounds. "Chemicals are converted to other chemicals in the liver, and you can't predict how the compound you developed i...Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
...m. But with the world population now exceeding 6.6 billion people, Montgomery argues that there are few, if any, places left where the soil can feed a large population for very long. "We are skinning our agricultural fields," Montgomery said. "But there are methods of farming, no-till in particular, that ...AAAS analysis finds Congress would add billions to FY 2008 R&D investment
... appropriations approved by the House total $144.3 billion for R&D--$3.2 billion (or 2.3%) more than the current budget and $4 billion more than the White House 2008 budget proposal...Handicapping tuberculosis may be the way to a better vaccine
...Health Organization estimates that approximately 2 billion people worldwide are infected with TB, with over 95 percent of infections occurring in developing countries. Most TB is latent, but can become active when the immune system is weak, such as during HIV infection, and more than 1.6 million die each yea...New grants bolster efforts to generate faster and cheaper tools for DNA sequencing
...it still costs as much as $5 million to sequence 3 billion base pairs the amount of DNA found in the genomes of humans and other mammals. NHGRIs near-term goal is to lower the cost of sequencing a mammalian-sized genome to $100,000, allowing researchers to sequence the genomes of hundreds or even thousand...Chickens dieting to help Delaware waterways
...rs produced over 269 million broiler chickens--1.8 billion pounds of poultry--valued at more than $739 million, according to the Delmarva Poultry Industry. Those chickens produced more than 280,000 tons of waste. According to recent analyses by David Hansen, UD assistant professor of soil and environmental...Does EPA have an adequate strategy to oversee nanotechnologies?
...Nanotechnology was incorporated into more than $30 billion in manufactured goods in 2005. By 2014, an estimated $2.6 trillion in manufactured goods globally will use nanotechnology, or 15 percent of total global output. Who: J. Clarence Davies, Senior Advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies...Insulin grown in plants relieves diabetes in mice; UCF study holds promise for humans
... of every eight federal health care dollars $79.7 billion out of $645 billion -- is spent on treating people with diabetes. Diabetes is a big health and financial burden in the...Using stem cells to help heart attack victims
...eat just one heart attack patient, we may need one billion that all function in the correct way." To help overcome the many challenges that stem cells bring, Dr Denning and co-investigator Professor Stephen Hill plan to engineer a novel system for real-time analysis of cardiomyocytes during early developme...System to analyze beating heart stem cells could lead to heart attack treatments
...eat just one heart attack patient, we may need one billion that all function in the correct way. To help overcome the many challenges that stem cells bring, Dr Denning and his team plan to engineer a novel system for real-time analysis of cardiomyocytes during early development so their properties are bet...Renewable energy wrecks environment
..., about 900,000 square km, with its entire 680,000 billion liters of rainfall, and storing it behind a 60 meter dam would only generate 80% of the total power output of Canada's 25 nuclear power stations, he explains. Put another way, each square kilometer of dammed land would provide the electricity for jus...N.C. A&T food scientist develops process for allergen-free peanuts
...he United States, with a farm value of close to $1 billion a year. The Southeast is the main peanut producing region in the nation. Worldwide, the legume is even more important from an economic development standpoint. In developing nations, and Africa in particular, the soils and climate are especially suita......For their molecular sleuthing they used almost one billion specially designed DNA probes. "All together, these probes would have seven times the length of human genome," illustrates Weigel the extent of the project. The data were evaluated with several specially designed statistical methods, including a vari...Charting ever-changing genomes
... Compared to corn, which might have as many as 2.5 billion base pairs of DNA and the human genome with roughly 3 billion pairs, Arabidopsis only has about 120 million base pairs of DNA. With nowhere to run, plants are ...Nature's secrets yield new adhesive material
...rs on each foot, scientists estimate a gecko has a billion spatulae at work as it scampers up a wall. Messersmith knew that researchers have attempted for several years to produce synthetic adhesives based on the adherence strategy of the gecko. What caught his eye in this article is gecko adhesion d......e this green revolution saved the lives of up to a billion people. In 1970 Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize for the workthe first time the award had been made for developments in Agriculture. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym CIMMYT, was created to con...Liverpool amongst first in UK to install unique DNA sequencing technology
...here that scientists decoded a record-breaking two billion letters of DNA in the human genome. In order to do this, however the technology which was large and complex required hundred of machines housed in specially constructed buildings. The new state-of-the-art machine is now no bigger than a photocopier......ctively able to turn the evolutionary clock back a billion years to see how a more primitive P2X molecule functions. The team discovered that there was only a 10% similarity between human P2X and the slime mould equivalent. They were therefore able to deduce from evolutionary theory that it was these simil...