CIRM awards $6M to Burnham Institute
...e. The statewide ballot measure, which provides $3 billion in funding for stem cell research at California universities and research institutions, was approved by California voters, and called for the establishment of an entity to make grants and provide loans for stem cell research, research facilities, and...New mathematical model to add rigor to studies of disease genetics and evolution
...20 percent of the human genome, which runs about 3 billion DNA bases long. Rates of recombination at a hotspot may be as much as hundreds to thousands of times that of the surrounding gene sequence. Little is known about hotspot origins or how they work. Scientists have identified a small number of human r...Failure to meet United Nations sanitation target could affect millions of the world's poorest
...anitation, the 'poor cousin' Today, more than 1 billion people worldwide live without a safe drinking water supply and more than 2.5 billion people don't have basic hygiene facilities, according to the United Nations. Davis, a participant in...Global ocean sampling expedition
...cally diverse environmental genomic dataset of 6.3 billion base pairstwice the size of the human genome. The first paper and accompanying poster by Douglas B. Rusch and colleagues describe the immense amount of microbial diversity in the seas, and discuss howor ifthat diversity is structured and what migh...First new waterborne aquaculture drug in 20 years approved
...left untreated, cause significant losses to the $1 billion (2006) U. S. aquaculture industry. State and federal natural resource agencies responsible for fish hatchery programs benefit from more effective and efficient production, including endangered and threatened species broodstock protection, and the pu...Disease opened door to invading species in California
...h animals, forests and grasslands costs about $137 billion a year, scientists say. Invading species are also responsible for about half of all native species that go extinct, studies show. One of the primary theories of successful invading species, experts say, until now had been the "enemy release hypothe...New agreement helps protect thousands of rice varieties -- the planet's most important food source
...he world's most important crop. Today, about three billion people depend on rice for their survival, with the thousands of varieties carefully stored at IRRI providing the last line of defense between them and possible famine, especially in times of war, natural disasters, and attacks from pests and diseases...Press conferences at the year's largest physics meeting
... evolution has accelerated rapidly since the first billion years of life on Earth. David Nolte, paper J21, Andre Brown, University of Pennsylvania, paper A26.9, Michael Deem, Rice University, papers D35.2, D35.14. Press Conference, Tuesday, March 6, 1:00 pm BUBBLE LOGIC, BUBBLE ARMOR, AND SELF-ASSEMBLED ...Cholesterol could be key to treating fetal alcohol syndrome
...ol induced birth defects, at an annual cost of $10 billion to the health care system. What alcohol does is interfere with a precisely orchestrated biochemical signaling pathway that guides fetal development. Cholesterol is essential for a single pathway that governs the pattern of tissue development and it...Leicester researcher to lead global team tackling carbon 'time-bomb'
...ional team to protect an area that stores up to 70 billion tonnes of carbon. Dr Susan Page, of the Departme...Located mainly in Southeast Asia, they store 50-70 billion tonnes of carbon (3% global soil carbon) but poor land management practices and fire, mainly associa...Survey finds emotional reactions to nanotechnology
...despite government and industry investments of $10 billion annually in nanotechnology research and development. The new survey found that over 80 percent of U.S. respondents had heard "little" or "nothing at all" about nanotechnology. Nevertheless, the vast majority of subjectsmore than 90 percentheld an o...Researchers learn what sparks plant growth
...ader implications. "If we want to feed over nine billion people by the year 2050, then understanding the basic mechanics of plant growth is required," said Chory. "This knowledge will ultimately lead to our ability to increase yield, while decreasing the need for fertilizer and pesticides."...UN, industry, others partner to create world standards for e-scrap recycling, harvesting components
...m, a by-product of zinc mining used in more than 1 billion products per year, including flat-screen monitors ...ear will mark the achievement of having recycled 1 billion pounds (450,000 metric tonnes) of information technology equipment since 1986. And we look for way...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
... THE COST OF LIGHT Lighting in the US is a $50 billion business and accounts for 22 percent of electricity use. Solid-state lighting, as manifested in light emitting diodes, seeks to get the most light out of available electricity. It does this by avoiding heating up a material (the venerable incandesce...MIT engineer works toward clean water, more
...y arsenic-tainted water, while an estimated 1 to 5 billion people worldwide lack access to microbially safe water. As of December 2006, more than 5,000 such filters are operating across Nepal, serving some 40,000 people. An additional 5,000 filters are slated for sales and distribution in 2007 in Nepal, w...UA researchers identify new adherence factor, Pili, produced by tuberculosis
...e each year from tuberculosis and an estimated 1.2 billion are infected with the bacteria. Virulence factors, such as MTP, are essential for causing disease in the host. Pili, also called fimbriae, are hair-like adhesive structures that facilitate the initial attachment and subsequent colonization of bact...Genome sequencing reveals key to viable ethanol production
...t can make clean-burning fuel from the nations one billion unused tons of yearly biomass production. "This is the first revelation of how a bacterium chooses from its more than 100 enzymes to break down a particular biomass," says David H. Wu, professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Unive...Nanotech promises big things for poor -- but will promises be kept?
...te enormous health benefits for the more than five billion people living in the developing world," according to Dr. Peter A. Singer, senior scientist at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health and Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto. "Nanotechnology might provide less-industrialized countri...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 21, 2007
...restaurants in the United States generate about 25 billion gallons of waste cooking oil each week. The waste oil, marketed as "yellow grease," long has been used in animal feed, with researchers exploring new applications such as biodiesel fuel. "We have successfully demonstrated the use of restaurant was......ing to the World Health Organization (WHO), over a billion people--one-sixth of the world's population--lack access to safe water supplies. Four billion cases of diarrheal disease occur worldwide every year, resulting in 1.8 million deaths, primarily in...