Economic impact of hunger affects all Americans
...ted States, finds that the U.S. pays more than $90 billion annually for the direct and indirect costs of hunger-related charities, illness and psychosocial dysfunction and the impact of less education/lower productivity. These costs are borne by all Americans. Distributed on an individual basis, it means ...454 Life Sciences and Baylor College of Medicine complete sequencing of DNA pioneer
...ticipated it would take 15 years to sequence the 3 billion base pairs and identify all the genes, said Richard Gibbs, Ph.D. , director, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine. We completed it in 13 years in 2003 coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the publication of the work of Watso...Nobel laureate James Watson receives personal genome in ceremony at Baylor College of Medicine
...ticipated it would take 15 years to sequence the 3 billion base pairs and identify all the genes, said Gibbs. We completed it in 13 years in 2003 coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the publication of the work of Watson and Dr. Francis Crick that described the double helix. Today, we give James Watson a...Canadian paper innovation holds promise for improved global health safety
...over 325,000 hospitalizations, 5,000 deaths and $7 billion US in medical costs; 1.6 million diarrhoel deaths... children under five in developing countries; One billion people who lack access to an improved water source. Key to developing bioactive-paper products i...Plants that produce more vitamin C may result from UCLA-Dartmouth discovery
..., there was almost no oxygen, Clarke noted. "Two billion years ago, plants devised an efficient way to get sunlight to make sugar from carbon dioxide that produced oxygen as a waste product; that waste product probably killed off most of all living species at that time," Clarke said. "The only organisms th...A new wrinkle in evolution -- man-made proteins
...volved several new proteins in a fraction of the 3 billion years it took nature. Their most recent results, published in the May 23rd edition of the journal PLoS ONE, have led to some surprisingly new lessons on how to optimize proteins which have never existed in nature before, in a process they call syn...Latest strategies for moving research toward a cure for diabetes explored at global scientific forum
...resentative of JDRFs unrelenting commitment to our billion dollar global campaign to find a cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications," said Arnold Donald, President and CEO of JDRF. "With each new development found through clinical trials and cure therapeutics, we move one step closer to making our ef...Cornell lab confirms deadly fish virus spreading to new species
...ies and poses a potential threat to New Yorks $1.2 billion sport-fishing industry. "Its pretty obvious this is an epidemic even if it isnt official," said Bowser. "There are just so many species affected and so many mortalities." Three new fish kills have occurred in 2007 in New York waters since the virus w...Brazil demonstrating that reducing tropical deforestation is key win-win global warming solution
...otected areas, if fully enforced, will prevent one billion tons of carbon from being transferred to the atmosphere through deforestation by the year 2015. Brazils deforestation rates have been cut nearly in half in recent years through a combination of government intervention and economic trends. "We a...Climate policy: It's good to be in the 'RED'
...opical deforestation, which releases more than 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere every year... next century will save an average of about half a billion metric tons of carbon every year. This by itself could account for as much as 12% of the total reduc...Drylands are not the same as badlands
...ing biodiversity and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism," t...ce and unpredictable precipitation where about 2.5 billion people live off the land by raising livestock and growing certain drought-tolerant crops. Between...Carnegie Mellon's David Sholl identifies new materials
...83 million gallons of gasoline a day or about 140 billion gallons annually. That's about two-thirds of the total national oil consumption, half of which is imported from overseas. "Hydrogen can potentially be produced from domestic resources without emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is an...Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence
...airs, respectively) but a longer total length (3.4 billion versus 3 billion bases, respectively). ...Enhanced MR-guided focused ultrasound guidelines demonstrate improved efficacy and durability
...ed with treating uterine fibroids are more than $1 billion annually. Traditionally, treatment options for uterine fibroids have included invasive and minimally invasive procedures such as hysterectomy, myomectomy or uterine artery embolization (UAE). Hormonal therapy, the only non-invasive treatment availab...Regulating Californian stem cell research, and more
How is California regulating its $3 billion stem cell research initiative? Regulations gove... In November 2004, California voters approved $3 billion over 10 years for public funding of stem cell research through the CIRM. In their policy paper in P...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 25, 2007
...ired electric power plants) total an estimated 24 billion tons, technology for capturing and storing the gas still are essential in a battle against global warming, the article explains. Even with that proviso, Ritter points out that increased chemical industry use of CO 2 could be an important part of a...'Supermap' of avian flu yields new info on source/spread
...s could become infected at a cost ranging from $71 billion to $166 billion. According to the World Health Organization, which is charged with tracing H5N1 data, there have been 291 cases of the disease in humans since the initial outbreak, and 172 deaths. Janies says the supermap is universally applica...Puzzling plankton yield secrets to role in evolution/global photosynthesis
...of the green plant lineage, dating back nearly 1.5 billion years. Today, these microscopic, free-living creatures, among the smallest eukaryotes ever characterized, barely a micron in diameter, contribute to a significant share of the worlds total photosynthetic activity. These "picophytoplankton" also exhi...New nanocomposites may mean more durable tooth fillings
... replacements to existing repairs, at a cost of $5 billion per year in the United States alone. Now, however, scientists at the American Dental Associations Paffenbarger Research Center, a joint research program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have shown that nanotechnology ha...Nanotechnology provides 'green' path to environmentally sustainable economy
...d in the report would help to ensure that the $8.3 billion taxpayer investment in nanotechnology, since the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative was established in 2001, pays off for the country and the environment. "We are on an unsustainable path," said Paul Anastas, director of the American Chemical...