Nanotech promises big things for poor -- but will promises be kept?
...t and led research efforts in private industry and national labs. Dr. Grodzinski received a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1992. Dr. Andrew Maynard is chief science advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. His research interest in nanomater...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 21, 2007
..., March 25-29The American Chemical Society's 233rd national meeting promises to be one of 2007's biggest and m...Art Institute of Chicago, scheduled during the ACS national meeting. The Art Institute, Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory are partners in ...Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
...esis of taxonomic data and supports the efforts of national programs the world over. Says CAML leader Michael Stoddart of Australia: "What we learned from the Polarstern expedition is the tip of an iceberg, so to speak. Insights from this and CAML's upcoming International Polar Year voyages will shed light ...Bacteria could steady buildings against earthquakes
...otechnical Modeling. The centrifuge is part of the national Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, funded by the National Science Foundation....Newborns with respiratory distress potentially have rare genetic disease
...hington University research team that is part of a national consortium investigating the genetic causes of PCD. The Genetic Diseases of Mucociliary Clearance Consortium, based at UNC, is part of the National Institutes of Health Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network. The consortium aims to improve diagnos...Nanotech leaders explore paths from research lab to marketplace
...nd more than 60 speakers from top universities and national laboratories in 30 countries, as well as major international companies such as Intel, Motorola and IBM. Nobel Laureates to attend are John Polanyi, a professor at the University of Toronto, won a Nobel Prize in 1986 for research in chemistry, and p...Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage
...e living with MS today," said Dr. William McIlroy, national medical advisor for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. "It represents a new insight of how we might be able to reverse some of the effects of the disease and improve the quality of life for those who live under its influence." ...AAAS panel will focus on the impact of livestock production on the planet
...increasingly serious at all levelslocal, regional, national and globaland urgently need to be addressed, according to researchers from Stanford University, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other organizations. The researchers, representing five countries, will present their findi...MUHC-led research identifies risk-factor genes for type 2 diabetes
...esearch. Its mandate is to develop and implement a national strategy in genomics and proteomics research for the benefit of all Canadians. For this purpose, it has received $600 million in funding from the Canadian government and co-funding from other partners, allowing it to invest a total of $1.4 billion in...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- February 14, 2007
...rch 25-29 The American Chemical Society's 233rd national meeting promises to be one of 2007's biggest and m...Art Institute of Chicago, scheduled during the ACS national meeting. The Art Institute, Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory are partners in ...Genome scan for familial autism finds two new genetic links
...disease is highly hereditary. Naming autism as a national public health crisis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that one in 150 American children is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Affecting four times as many boys as girls, the diagnosis of autism has expanded tenfold in ...Preliminary results of largest scan of autism DNA information
...isease Control and Prevention have called autism a national public health crisis for which a cause and cure remain unknown....Protecting US crops from terrorist attack to be discussed at 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
... sound and safe agricultural system is critical to national security, but are U.S. crops, a cornerstone of our... pathogen containment. "Recent enhancements at the national and local levels have improved our preparedness, but we still need to train first detectors, minimiz...Study verifies more hazardous waste facilities located in minority areas
...from the University of Michigan is the first known national level study that supports environmental justice scholars' claim that hazardous waste facilities are disproportionately placed in poor, minority neighborhoods. The other side of that argument is that the hazardous waste facilities came first, which...Robotic cameras join search for 'Holy Grail of bird-watching'
...ce of the sightings. Yet, in 2004, biologists made national news headlines when they captured a few seconds of video of what appears to be an ivory-billed woodpecker. But those sightings also generated their share of controversy, with skeptics claiming that the fuzzy image in the video, taken by David Lunea...Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky will discuss stress, health, Feb. 17 at AAAS meeting
...ubsistence, there is no relationship between gross national product, per capita income, any of those things, and levels of happiness." Surveys show that in Greece, for example, one of Western Europe's poorest countries, people are much happier than in the United States, the world's richest nation. And while...Vet College gets grant to develop fish virus diagnostic technique
...e end of 2008. "Once this technique is accepted by national and international organizations, it will be adopted as the standard test," said Geoffrey Groocock, a postdoctoral associate at Cornell's Aquatic Animal Health Program. "Then, people can send samples to us or other programs to quickly and accurately d...IDIBAPS participates in European Network on antibiotic resistances and hospital infections
...in hospitals. MOSAR is coordinated by the Institut national de la sant e de la recherche mdicale (INSERM, Christian Brun-Buisson, unit 657 "Pharmaco-epidemiology and assessment of the impact of health products on populations"), and has about 20 public and private laboratories, and more than 50 hospitals in Eu......scientists said today. The U.S. should consider a national drought policy to help achieve sustainable water for drinking, agriculture and fisheries, said the scientists at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They also pointed out the need to manage water supplies t......nol is and will be a critical part of reducing our national dependence on oil for liquid fuels. Production technology for both corn and cellulosic ethanol is advancing rapidly. So it's essential that we understand how to improve all portions of the system for maximum environmental benefits."...