QUT's top researchers honored with fellowships
...es, and costs the Australian community around $2.5 billion dollars a year indirectly. "Schizophrenia accounts for 20 per cent of the health care costs for Australia." Dr Voisey said her research would combine genetic screening with a person's demographic history profile to more accurately identify indivi...Tomorrow's green nanofactories
...s, corporations, and venture capitalists spent $12 billion on nanotechnology research and development worldwide. Nanotechnology promises to change just about everythingour medical care, energy sources, communications and food. It is leading us to what many in government and industry are calling The Next Indu...Germany's embryo protection law is 'killing embryos rather than protecting them'
...t), representing about half of the world and three billion people total ART activity in the whole of the world is estimated at 1.1 million cycles a year approximately 240,000 ART babies were born in the world in 2003 more than three million ART babies have been born since the first ART baby (Loui...Scientists find endangered grey-shanked doucs in Vietnam
...iscovery is like finding a new country with over 1 billion people in it, said Ben Rawson, a Regional Wildlife Biologist for CIs Indo-Burma Program. We now have a much greater opportunity to overcome the very serious threats faced by this species and prevent its disappearance from our planet. Grey-shanked d...Discovery could help bring down price of DNA sequencing
...eive his own complete personal genome -- all three billion base pairs of his DNA code sequenced. The cost was $1 million, and the process took two months. A million dollars for a map of all your genes is way out of reach for most people. The National Institutes of Health would like to bring it down to $1,0...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...kel. One-third of all people on Earth about 2 billion in number are potential victims of desertifications creeping effect. And, left unchecked, the number of people at risk of displacement due to severe desertification is an estimated 50 million over the next 10 years a sweep of migrants worldwide eq...$125 million bioenergy initiative powered by Midwest ag industry, MSU research
...estimates the United States will need to process 1 billion tons of biomass per year as a source of renewable energy to meet the goal set by Bush. "In the last 100 years we've gone through a significant fraction of the oil it took hundreds of millions of years to create," said Donohue, "so we have to come u...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 20, 2007
...y newsmagazine. U. S. pet owners alone spent $18.5 billion last year on veterinary care, medications, and other non-food supplies, a figure expected to grow by more than 6 percent annually. Written by C&EN associate editor Rachel A. Petkewich, the article describes how global pharmaceutical companies, be...World's first X-ray free electron laser is on course to completion
...rth-generation light-source, will be shorter and a billion times brighter than can be produced by any other X-ray source available now or in the near future. These advanced characteristics will aid scientists in discovering and probing new states of matter, understanding and following chemical reactions a...Scientists identify first gene linked to scoliosis
...performed genome-wide scans that spelled out the 6 billion letters of genetic code in the affected family members and analyzed the data. They found that patients with scoliosis very often had a defect in the gene's non-coding region, meaning that the error did not disrupt production of the CHD7 protein. Th...Scientists close in on missing carbon sink
...station, and other sources. Of the approximately 8 billion tons of carbon emitted each year, about 40 percent...ls indicate that northern forests absorb about 2.4 billion tons per year. However, ground-based studies have tracked only about half that amount, leaving scien...Northern forests less effective than tropical forests in reducing global warming
...tation and other sources. Of the approximately 8 billion tons of carbon emitted each year, about 40 percent...cate that northern forests are taking up about 2.4 billion tons. However, ground-based studies have tracked only about half that amount, leaving scientists to ...MU maps course for improving pre-college science education
...g. Since 1988, HHMI has awarded approximately $1.5 billion in grants....New $1.16 million study investigates how dietary iron is used by cells
...0 percent of the worlds population, or more than 5 billion people. Iron deficiency is not confined to developing nations. In the U.S., 5 percent of newborns and 7 percent of new mothers have clinical symptoms of iron deficiency. Reducing the incidence of this nutritional deficit is one of the objective...UN issues analysis of global investors' sustainable energy 'gold rush'
...tal flowing into renewable energy climbed from $80 billion in 2005 to a record $100 billion in 2006. As well, the renewable energy sectors growth although still volatile ... is showing no sig...... C, G and T. DNA in each human cell has about 3 billion base pairs, arranged into 23 pairs of chromosomes. Those chromosomes include roughly 20,000 genes, which carry the code needed for cells to produce the proteins used to make body parts and carry out most functions in living organisms. Genes typically...Recycling is not enough -- we need to consume less
...r cent a year, the cost to the economy will be 3.2 billion and the amount of harmful methane emissions will double by 2020. The report highlights the many ways that social science can contribute to waste policy development, either by devising initiatives, by providing tools to evaluate their relative effec...Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
...e and storage. Global emissions in 2004 totaled 27 billion tons, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration. If all human-induced emissions were sequestered, enough capacity would exist to accommodate more than 100 years' worth of emissions, according to Benson, coordina...University of Manchester researchers reveal clues to new genes behind rheumatoid arthritis
...ugh the human genome is made up of more than three billion sub-units of DNA, called nucleotides (or bases), most of these show little in the way of differences between individuals. The International HapMap Consortium and related efforts demonstrated that a substantial part of the variation in DNA sequence be...Largest ever study of genetics of common diseases published today
...ions. Over two years, they have analysed almost 10 billion pieces of genetic information. "Many of the most...ugh the human genome is made up of more than three billion sub-units of DNA, called nucleotides (or bases), most of these show little in the way of differences...