New antibody shows promise as cure for anthrax
...hrax without the use of antibiotics and other more expensive antibodies. The high-affinity antibody, an anthrax... produced in bacterial cells, rather than the more expensive mammalian cell culture now used to produce anthrax antibodies. Patterson, chair of the Department ...Information & communications technologies key to sustainable development in Africa: UNU
...nities for faster, easier, more reliable, and less expensive development solutions in Africa. Implement a range of educational projects across Africa and set up a network to showcase success stories from African partners who share similar values and objectives. Upgrade the technological capabilities of Afric...Gene at heart of bad outcomes in high blood pressure patients
...erly protected so that identifying someone as more expensive or difficult to treat won't result in insurance or perhaps job discrimination. As Dr. Johnson's research illustrates, we now have good evidence that we should be investing in genetics education, regulation and social engagement so that we can move th...Biorenewables products for a sustainable future: York leads new consortium
...fossil reserves are finite and oil is becoming too expensive for industrial use. Biorenewables, the use of plants and microorganisms, their products and processes, offer an immense potential for sustainability. The Bioscience for Business network is an important new initiative to bring about change and raise a...DNA technique measures suitability of soil for onion crops
...nvestigated to detect this; a labour-intensive and expensive operation. Together with the Laboratory for Nematology (University of Wageningen) the company Blgg has developed a molecular technique to detect the stem nematode and white rot in soil samples. Agricultural laboratory Blgg will start using the new s......rgy will inevitably become less available and more expensive than it has been for the last few decades. The change will be permanent. Adapting to this scenario while maintaining the UK's standard of living will require fundamental changes in the way we produce and use energy. All sources of energy will be re...Research: In environmental policy, we get what we pay for
...nd said. Businesses like them because they're less expensive and more flexible. The findings, Helfand said, sho...n up, and it cuts slack for sources when it's very expensive to reduce pollution." One example is the 1990 acid rain program, which combined a market-based appro...Genetic analysis of glioblastoma brain tumors can aid in treatment decisions, study shows
...y prevent patients from undergoing unnecessary and expensive treatments, and it could allow some people to be treated with the most effective therapy immediately, before the tumors can grow and develop new mutations that make them more difficult to treat. Kinases are enzymes that play key roles in cell prolife...Sustainable agriculture: Canadian institute offers definition, recommends path
...food (i.e. tomatoes from Florida) will become more expensive to transport, opening the door to local production; and the generation of energy from on-farm sources such as manure and biomass will become more economically viable, acting as on-farm substitutes for current sources of energy as well as the possibil...California computer scientists double volume of data in NIH biotech repository
...rimental methods for deriving these haplotypes are expensive and time-consuming. But now experts in bioinformatics at two California research institutes have used a different, very fast and relatively low-cost computational tool to 'crunch' the world's largest repository of genotypes to predict their haplotype...Valuing biodiversity services, including its insurance against disease
...ound of services provided free by nature for which expensive artificial replacements are now required. In one part of China, for instance, the loss of bees to pollinate apple trees has caused orchard owners to hire people to do the job. Elsewhere, the loss of microbes that helped keep soil fertile forces f...New discovery: If it weren't for this enzyme, decomposing pesticide would take millennia
...s on potatoes, researchers have found. That may be expensive for farmers but lucky for the environment because University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists have now discovered that if that particular enzyme weren't there, it would take 10,000 years for just half of the widely used pesticide to decomp...Improved blood safety measures from Pall can increase platelet availability
...gle donor) platelets, which are time-consuming and expensive to obtain, are tested for bacterial contamination using the most sensitive culture detection methods. Whereas whole blood derived platelets are typically tested using less sensitive and reliable methods such as dipsticks or pH meters. Hospitals res...Biomarker test may give early warning of brain woes
...ust a few drops of blood, bypassing cumbersome and expensive CT or MRI brain scanning equipment. The researchers report their findings in the current online edition of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. The cellular debris, derived from a protein called NF-H, was not found in the blood or oth...Scientists discover genetic key to growing hardier, more productive plants
...ack irrigation systems and money for the amount of expensive fertilizers needed to feed plants with less expansive root systems. U.S. patents currently are pending and a research licensing agreement with an international company has been signed....DOE publishes roadmap for new biological research for energy and environmental needs
...ol from cellulose by replacing the inefficient and expensive processes used today. They could enable smaller-scale and more cost-effective and energy-efficient distributed processing plants that could make ethanol cost competitive with oil-based gasoline. Thousands of microbial species have biochemical proce...Materials scientists get the whole picture with new e-Science technique
... data as single entities in near real time without expensive specialised hardware", says Dr Sastry. GAPtk is also being used in other applications, including the Integrative Biology e-Science project. Previously, Dr Perring could fit only parts of the data to models in his single processor machine. Now, he...Breakthrough in micro-device fabrication combines biology and synthetic chemistry
...r to methods used to make computer microchips, are expensive (i.e., capital equipment intensive) and not well-s... devices that would otherwise be very difficult or expensive to produce."...Method slashes quantum dot costs by 80 percent
... manufacture, but the solvents turned out to be so expensive that we just couldn't afford to run more than a fe...ricey solvents like octadecene, or ODE - the least expensive solvent used in quantum dot preparation today - account for about 90 percent costs of raw materials.......icates that zebrafish may be a key to faster, less expensive studies on cancer and carcinogens, as well as a tool to lower the cost for drug development, OSU experts said. The first comprehensive cancer research studies using this small, striped tropical fish were begun at OSU over 10 years ago, and the specie...