Fake malaria drug implicated in Burmese man's death
...reating a demand among poor, vulnerable people for cheaper alternatives--the counterfeiters, say the authors, are thus preying upon the poor. Newton and colleagues fear that an epidemic of fake artesunate may also follow in the wake of the genuine artesunate that is being imported for use in sub-Saharan Afr...Producing flu vaccines will be faster and cheaper, thanks to MSU technology
...ooks to produce new human flu vaccines quicker and cheaper than current methods. While studying new techniques to produce vaccines for Marek's disease, a common chicken disease that causes big losses for poultry producers, Paul Coussens, MSU professor of animal science and microbiology and molecular geneti...New tool cracks genomic code quicker than ever
...d method for genomic sequencing that is faster and cheaper than state of the art technologies. The breakthrough will be welcomed in medical and biotechnology circles where there is rising demand for genome-sequencing technologies. The new hybrid method combines the best of new and old code cracking methods ...NJIT researchers seed, heat and grow carbon nanotubes in long tubing
...eaner gasoline, better food processing and faster, cheaper ways to clean air and water. The discovery was recently described in the Journal of Material Chemistry, June 14, 2006, by Mitra and his team in "Selective Self-assembly of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Long Steel Tubing for Chemical Separati...Biological pest control becomes an economic reality
...s and techniques which can make it much easier and cheaper to produce key insect pest predators that can be adapted for the specific needs of many more. These developments are of particular interest to European agriculturists. "This means more effective, more economic control of many insect pests of major ag...Iowa State corn/soy plastics to be made into hog feeders
...ial costs. Corn and soybean oils are significantly cheaper than petrochemicals. And that's particularly true when oil prices are high. Hagemann said he expects this project to be a very good test of Larock's plastics. Hogs, after all, aren't known for being gentle with their feeders. "I've told Richard...Jumping gene could provide non-viral alternative for gene therapy
...." Another clear benefit is that transposons are cheaper to produce and probably safer than viruses. For example, retroviruses use RNA to make DNA, an error-prone process that must occur before integration, Dr. Kaminski says. Also, viruses can't carry larger genes, such as the dystrophin gene, which could ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2006
...determined installation of the polymer pipeline is cheaper and allows for installation of sensors that can more quickly and accurately identify the pipeline failures. The funding source is the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Program office. [Contact: Fred Strohl...Taking 'chips' to the next level of gene hunting
...tially that all chip experiments become faster and cheaper and can be done on an ever larger scale," says Boeke. The chips his team currently uses cost about $400 per experiment. If the amount of information can be quadrupled, "it would be four experiments for the price of one," he says. Standard chips con...Finding a cure for cancer: The holy grail of science
...al cells or even subcellular regions, and they are cheaper and much easier to handle, but the ion beam has the advantage of using real ionizing radiation. In reality, UV lasers would not be harmful humans but the effect from ionizing radiation (background, medical applications and so on) is inevitable. Fr...The power of one: A simpler, cheaper method for cell fusion
...ngineer Chang Lu has done just that with a new and cheaper method to electrically fuse cells - a vital techno...nology is necessarily better, but it is definitely cheaper and has other benefits," he said. "Hopefully, with our technology many more scientists will be able ...Professors to develop hand-held pathogen testing device
..., air and water pathogens may get a lot easier and cheaper thanks to the work of a Michigan State University researcher and his team. Syed Hashsham, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Center for Microbial Ecology, is developing a portable, hand-held devi......design as it would be both easier and economically cheaper to synthesize, less prone to resistance, and potentially modified to target a large range of bacterial and fungal infections....Cloudy apple juice four times healthier than clear
... depends on the coffee used blends containing the cheaper Robusta variety required more coffee than pure Arabica beans....Fungal factories may save hemlock forests
...he USDA and EPA and other funders. Whey is a far cheaper growing medium than those available in labs for the many fungi now in use as biological controls in agriculture and forestry. And the whey serves as a nutritional resource, making each droplet a cozy biological factory for a fungal colony, pumping ...'Hidden-hero' microbes in soil, water may help naturally clean toxic sites
... stands, bioremediation, which is potentially much cheaper than current technologies, has not been used much at all, but it should be," he said. "Subsurface aquifers, where most of the radioactive contamination resides, are primary sources of groundwater used for drinking, and contaminated aquifers tend t...How does one sex grow larger than the other?
...ese explanations is that, although it is generally cheaper to produce (small) sperm than (large) eggs, it may be costlier to produce male gonads and genitalia than it is to produce female gonads and genitalia. As a result, males might need more time to mature at larger body sizes. This world-wide collabor...Faster, low cost sequencing technologies needed to drive era of personalized medicine
...cing technology is driven by the mantra of faster, cheaper and more reliable. In the past generation, sequencing costs have fallen 100-fold, from roughly a dollar a DNA base to a penny, but are still far out of reach for the public. Zhang's technological vision would enable scientists to sequence billions...Yale biologists 'trick' viruses into extinction
...erapies are very expensive. Turner suggests, "A cheaper option is the possibility of engineering trap cells that have CD4 molecules on their surface, but no nucleus for virus reproduction. Mature red blood cells could fill the bill, because they lack a nucleus and could be engineered as sink habitats that......g on a 1.5m project to develop new and potentially cheaper ways of generating solar power. The three and a half year project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), will investigate a number of new and novel solar cell designs, in an attempt to produce a more efficient sy...