New agreement helps protect thousands of rice varieties -- the planet's most important food source
...s kept in a special earthquake-proof and fireproof facility that must be maintained at temperatures as low as 19 degrees Celsius. At a special ceremony on the same day, the Institute also dedicated the Genetic Resources Center (GRC) to Dr. Te-Tzu Chang, the founder of the International Rice Germplasm Center...Tests to reveal levels of depleted uranium in army personnel
... to ascertain the extent of contamination. "Our facility has used this test in the monitoring of more than 400 UK veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, under the testing programme administered by the Depleted Uranium Oversight Board over the past two and a half years a testing programme that is nearly finished."...Natural antibiotics yield secrets to atom-level imaging technique
...a high magnetic field solid-state NMR spectrometer facility and an NIH-funded program....Study verifies more hazardous waste facilities located in minority areas
...residents had already started to move out when the facility was sited. "What we discovered is that there are... facilities stayed flat at about 975,000 until the facility moved in, then the white population fell to about 900,000. Hispanic, black and Asian populations all...Computer program bridges gap between scientists, water policy makers
...vened in ASU's Decision Theater, a virtual reality facility focused on examining policy issues. The response was overwhelmingly positive, Gober said. "People see it and tell us that it feels right," she said. While WaterSim is specifically tailored to central Arizona's water situation, Gober would like sc...Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic join forces to develop cancer vaccine
...e data. Space has been allocated in a new research facility on the Scottsdale campus of Mayo Clinic, and additional faculty and clinicians are being hired to support this phase of the project. "The effort may be too high-risk and technology-focused to be supported by traditional government funding sources...Architectural plan revealed of doomsday arctic seed vault
...8. "By investing in a global permafrost safety facility for seeds, the Norwegian Government hopes to contr...y on that there is no point in trying to hide this facility from the public," Tveiten said. "Instead we will rely on its presence being well-known in the local...Energy institute will put Illinois at forefront of farm bioenergy production
... for the Illinois operation will be in the new IGB facility on Gregory Drive in Urbana. Feedstock development is one of five research areas at the EBI. The others are biomass depolymerization (breaking down plant material for use in biofuels), fossil fuel bioprocessing (converting heavy hydrocarbons to clea...Bones in motion: Brown scientists to create new 3-D X-ray system
...ines, treadmills and other equipment for a new CTX facility on campus. But creating the imaging technology will be a mainly computational challenge, so funding will also support substantial software development. Brown faculty and students are already at work on pilot projects to visualize pigs walking, bird...Biogen Idec acquires Brandeis spin-out
...ec plans to maintain Syntonix's 25,000 square-foot facility in Waltham, MA for the continuing operation of Syntonix programs. About Syntonix's Hemophilia Programs and Technology Platforms FIX:Fc is being developed for the treatment of hemophilia B in a strategic alliance with Biovitrum AB of Sweden with t...MIT develops nanoparticles to battle cancer
...have expertise in liver functions, she directs the facility at the MIT Center for Cancer and Nanotechnology Excellence that analyzes new materials for toxicity and is working to standardize the guidelines for nanomaterial toxicity. "We need to be able to understand the whole system better to be able to mov...'Hidden-hero' microbes in soil, water may help naturally clean toxic sites
...lex, toxic waste from weapons manufacturing at the facility between 1951 and 1983 leaches into groundwater that extends in radioactive plumes for miles from the contaminated site. But soon, Florida State University Associate Professor Joel Kostka and his FSU oceanography department team will help clean up t...'Biomimetic Technologies' project will create first soft-bodied robots
...ce in a recently expanded multi-disciplinary Tufts facility at 200 Boston Avenue, Medford. Known as the Advan...re feet of "Class 1000" clean room space. "This facility provides a cross-disciplinary environment for faculty and students to investigate complex systems pr...LSU professor uses tai chi to fight degenerative nerve disease
...t support any additional participants. Parking and facility space are already posing a problem. Li hopes to receive funding in the near future that will allow him to expand the program so that it can help others fight back against the pain of peripheral neuropathy. "I have really been helped by the program. M...Ossur hf. acquires the Gibaud Group in France
...the first half of 2007 to take out the bridge loan facility and to finance future acquisitions. Update on Ossur operational outlook 2006 Overall sales for the year are still expected to be above 250 million US dollars. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) for the full year...Cluster of journals publish findings on dangerous parasite, Toxoplasma gondii
... Veterinary Molecular Biology and MSU's microarray facility helped establish the role of a second pathogen protein that makes one strain of "Toxoplasma" especially dangerous. "Type I strains are extremely important to human medicine as they are disproportionately responsible for inflammation of the brain in...New clean-up project builds upon success gained in field
...r tests and sampling. "At no other field research facility is the investigation of the subsurface fate and transport of contaminants performed on such a large scale using a real-world contaminated site," Watson said. Key conclusions from research projects at the site include: microorganisms found in sub...Spin-out company seeks medicines from South American rain forests
...an company Grupo TCI to establish a joint research facility close to the Amazonian and Atlantic rain forests, to start testing substances from the millions of plants in the most diverse ecosystem on the planet. New medicines are needed to combat a range of diseases which threaten to reach pandemic levels, inc...Nano competition debuts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...n of the Spallation Neutron Source, a $1.4 billion facility that allows scientists to examine the structure and properties of materials at a molecular level using powerful beams of neutrons. Next door, the recently finished $65 million Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences provides world-class instrumentati......tudy assumes that the final liquid fuel production facility is in the European Union, where biomass raw materials would have to be imported after pretreatment at the place of origin. It concludes that high-quality liquid fuels could be produced from imported biomass for about $2.60 per gallon. The process w...