Announcement of new fishing gear that reduce the accidental death of marine life
WASHINGTON At a press conference on the eve of Earth Day, World Wildlife Fund and its partners in the International Smart Gear Competition will announce three new winning solutions to prevent the accidental maiming and killing of marine mammals, juvenile fish and sea turtles that become ensnar...Pall systems play key role in landmark NIH study on cord blood
...laying the groundwork for quality standards on the eve of establishing a national program in the U.S. to bank cord blood stem cells." The COBLT study sponsored by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was initiated in 1995 with the overall go...Experts urge reform of international patent system at eve of WIPO assembly
...n of intellectual property standards. Held at the eve of the WIPO General Assembly (taking place between 26 September to 5 October in Geneva), forty scholars and policy analysts meeting at United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH) warned that the current IP regime is undermin...First big influenza genome study reveals flu evolution
Rockville, Md.--On the eve of the 2005-06 flu season, scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) have captured influenza evolution in action. In a study published in this week's journal Nature , the researchers report the first large-scale project to sequence the...Sustainable agriculture: Canadian institute offers definition, recommends path
...ining rural farming communities. Published on the eve of AIC's annual meeting (Quebec City, Nov. 6-9), the paper says Canadians eat the world's cheapest food as farmers' incomes wither, small farms vanish, rural communities decline and megafarms mushroom, with major consequences underway for future envi...Vaginal gel may provide a new approach to HIV prevention
...ides in resource-poor countries. Announced on the eve of the TIME Global Health Summit, this agreement marks the first time any pharmaceutical company has licensed an anti-HIV compound for development as a microbicide when the class of drugs is so early in development. Women make up nearly half of all p...BioMed Central launches Biology Direct
... life sciences. Lipman and Koonin, speaking on the eve of the journal's launch, explain the motivation for establishing Biology Direct: "We were compelled to launch this experiment because, while scientific publishing cannot be effective without peer review, we saw flaws in the current, predominantly, an...Experts urge industry and international donors to prepare pneumococcal vaccines
...ll child deaths.2 This call to action comes on the eve of a meeting of G8 ministers to discuss funding vaccines. This seems to be the latest step in major changes over the last five years in financing of immunization, including the creation of the GAVI Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizat...Video explains what science learns from avian stars of 'Happy Feet' and 'March of the Penguins'
...rds still challenge the scientific mind. On the eve of International Polar Year (IPY), Emperor penguins, which can dive unharmed to depths that no human could survive unaided, still fascinate researchers. By studying the animals' physiology and the way their bodies respond to the crushing pressure ...