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...isease. The UK Government has pledged to spend 1.5 billion tackling HIV/AIDS in developing countries between 2005 and 2008. We will follow the next stages of this research with interest."...MUHC-led research identifies risk-factor genes for type 2 diabetes
...er partners, allowing it to invest a total of $1.4 billion in 115 innovative research projects and technology platforms. To learn more about Genome Canada, please visit our Web site at www.genomecanada.ca ....The last wild hunt -- Deep-sea fisheries scrape bottom of the sea
...than by paying subsidies to a fleet that burns 1.1 billion liters of fuel annually to maintain paltry catches of old growth fish from highly vulnerable stocks, while destroying their habitat in the process," says Pauly. "Eliminating global subsidies would render these fleets economically unviable and would...Cellulosic ethanol: Fuel of the future?
...y on foreign oil by requiring the production of 35 billion gallons a year of renewable and alternative fuels ...ve times the current target set by Congress of 7.5 billion gallons by 2012. Among the most promising alternatives are fuels derived from biological material....Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...g molds at a wheel plant and even blades to cut 11 billion ketchup packets each year. The trick is applying rare-earth and other metal oxide films at low temperature (450 degrees Celsius) in a variety of combinations at the nano-scale. The films bond to most non-organic surfaces, including carbides, steel, g......5 million effort to sequence the approximately 2.7 billion DNA base pairs in the genome of the horse (Equus caballus) was funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A team led by Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Ph.D., at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad I...Scripps research scientists: Compounds show significant promise against potential bioweapon toxins
...sts. One subtype, botulinum neurotoxin A, is a 100 billion times more potent than cyanide and relatively easy to produce, making it a potential biological weapon. Using a multifaceted screening approach, Janda and his colleagues identified the two compounds and tested their efficacy in both cell-based ass...World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars
...ed surface temperatures above freezing before 3.75 billion years ago according to the researchers, led by Uni...sts show that the rocks in Quebec are roughly 3.75 billion years old, about the same as the West Greenland rocks." The landscape of the Hudson Bay region un...Researchers earn $200,000 prize for filtering arsenic from water wells
...inking water have fallen from 100 to 500 parts per billion to well below the 50 ppb maximum allowed by the Indian government. Victims have found relief from their symptoms, and reports of new cases of arsenicosis have plummeted. Each filtration system is built in India. Cost of installation ranges from $1,...Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine
... daunting task of shrinking down the 13 year, $2.7 billion Human Genome Project to days. "If you want to develop a technology to sequence an individual genome for $1,000, you have to think about using nanotechnology," said Zhang, associate research professor in the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics at...Africa's farmers will have room to grow
...ght-affected countries. More than a quarter of a billion Africans depend on maize as their staple food, often eating a quarter kilo or more of maize and maize products every day. Any disruption in the supply of maize, either at the farm level or to the markets, has destructive consequences for the most vul...Does evolution select for faster evolvers?
...s that single-celled life first appeared about 3.5 billion years ago, and it then took about 2.5 billion more years for multi-cellular life to evolve. That leaves just a billion years or so for the evoluti...Carnegie Mellon engineers devise new process to improve energy efficiency of ethanol production
...cent of the nation's gasoline supply roughly 7.5 billion gallons contain some ethanol by 2012. Corn is most often used to produce ethanol, but it can be made from grains, sugar beats, potato and beverage wastes and switchgrass. The research was conducted through the......n a neuronal network can target something like 100 billion nerve cells in the brain alone. These, in turn communicate with millions of other cells and organs in the body. How, then, do whole cascades of events trigger responses that are highly specific, quick and precisely timed? A team at the Weizmann Insti...ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting
...6 the federal government budgeted approximately $4 billion for biodefense research and preparedness and just ... countermeasures using an estimated funding of $1 billion dollars in fiscal year 2008. The purpose of this meeting is to bring together individuals who are...Microwave oven can sterilize sponges, scrub pads
...ans annually, causing at least 9,000 deaths and $4 billion to $6 billion in medical costs and other expenses. Home kitchens are a common source of contamination, as pathogen...Honey bee researcher wins National Research Initiative Discovery Award
...nd vegetable crops. Bee pollination adds about $14 billion dollars annually to improved crop yield and quality, according to information on the Web site....Dangerous wheat disease jumps Red Sea
..., Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, exceeding USD 1 billion in value. There is every reason to believe the new...heat production. Annual losses of as much as USD 3 billion in Africa, the Middle East and south Asia alone are possible. According to the Food and Agricultu...Research advances on nanotech workplace health and safety
...sed research is a small fraction of the nearly $10 billion spent annually by governments and industry on nanotechnology commercial applications. Greater resources and attention are needed now on nanotechnology occupational health and safety research in order to ensure safe nano-workplaces today and in the fu......ls -- was the key to life's emergence on Earth 4.6 billion years ago. That hypothesis states that RNA catalyzed all the biochemical reactions necessary to produce living organisms. Only later were those self-replicating RNA units joined by organisms based on DNA, which evolved into more advanced forms of lif...