Reclaiming Our Healthy Future: Political change to protect the next generation, the 26th National Pesticide Forum, will be held March 14-16, 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley.
SOFIA, Bulgaria - March 12, 2008 - Cisco® and the Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (DAITS) today announced the opening of Southeast Europe's first lab for training and research in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The lab's
While the state offers grant programs and other financial aid,charges have more than doubled in a decade at the University ofMinnesota and in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universitiessystem.
Kevin Gold's guarantee didn't happen. Gold, a senior on the Rock Springs boys basketball team, promised a victory in the Class 4A Wyoming State High School Basketball Championship game after the Tigers upset No. 1 seed Natrona County in the
NASA has completed production of hardware for use in the first flight test of the astronaut escape system for the Constellation Program's Orion crew capsule.
Medical device companies that are among the biggest financial donors to Melbourne's top hospitals are being investigated by US authorities over payments to doctors in return for the exclusive use of their products. (The Age)
A tiny chemical "brain" which could one day act as a remote control for swarms of nano-machines has been invented.The molecular device - just two billionths of a metre across - was able to control eight of the microscopic machines
When human umbilical cord blood cells (UCBC) were injected into aged laboratory animals, researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) found improvements in the microenvironment of the hippocampus region of the animals' brains and a subsequent rejuvenation of neural
His is the only one of the candidate proposals that has a chance of getting medical costs under control. An argument for some free-market sanity. (CNNMoney)
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has upheld a second and a third University of Wisconsin-Madison patent covering embryonic stem cell research at the school. (Washington Post)
Wanted: Your genes.Hoping to link illnesses to genetics and lifestyle, the federal government is exploring the possibility of recruiting a half-million Americans to contribute their DNA and health information to an ambitious national "biobank." (Mercury News)
In a report presented to the press, Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) said it had identified "at least" 104 food or food-related products on sale in the EU that contained manufactured nanomaterials or were produced using nanotechnology and for
Deaf campaigners say that this is eugenics. Wrong. The aim is to prevent eugenics, a warped eugenics that deliberately selects deafness. The law forbids parents with a political or cultural agenda from screening the embryos and then perversely ensuring that
BYU researchers under the direction of professor William Winder recently found an enzyme that triggers the production of mitochondria 'powerhouses' in muscles during exercise.
Raging controversies normally generated due to claims on discoveries and researches by Nigerian scientists have been described as a healthy occurrence that could bring about growth in the fields of science and technology, and consequently rapid development in the nation.
The plight of the world's oceans is dire, according to recent studies, through insults from human-derived activities, such as nitrogen runoff from terrestrial watersheds. A study by 31 aquatic biologists involving 72 stream sites in the United States and Puerto
As spring arrives, tourists at beaches will face the reality of "red tide" -- harmful algae blooms that pose risks to humans and sea life.What they may not realize is that small streams running through their neighborhoods filter the nitrogen
