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Rescheduled: Aerial Mosquito Treatment for Philadelphia

...lands at the city's northeast wastewater treatment plant near the Betsy Ross Bridge. Certain species of mosquitoes carry West Nile virus, which, when transmitted to people, can cause West Nile encephalitis, an infection that can result in an inflammation of the brain. According to the Centers for Disease...

Cannabinoids Regulate Inflammation Process

...rgic reactions of the skin. Extracts of the hemp plant cannabis are traditionally used as a popular remed...ct of the component THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) the plant was taken off the chemists shelves in the 1930s. THC acts on the cannabinoid receptors, of which t...

Export of Herbal Products to Reach Rs.120 Billion by 2012: Study

...vation," Assocham said. "Over 70 percent of the plant collections involve destructive harvesting because...f parts like roots, bark, wood, stem and the whole plant in case of herbs. This poses a definite threat to the genetic stocks and to the diversity of medicin...

Cannabis can Help to Treat Allergies, Autoimmune Disorders

...binol (THC), the active ingredient in the cannabis plant to treat mice and found that it reduced skin allergies. However, the researchers warned that people who currently suffer from autoimmune diseases should not try to self-medicate marijuana because of its side effects, reported the online edition of ...

Bio-fuels Would Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Says Senior British Scientists

...o around 90m tons by that date. We would need to plant a land area twice the size of Britain to get enough bio-fuel crops to halve our emissions, said Kemp, professor of engineering at Lancaster University. The numbers simply do not add up. Kemp and Clift point out that the surging global interest in bio...

Tritium Risks at New Heights

...o live within five kilometer radius of the nuclear plant are at most risk as the concentration of tritium is very high. While Ontario Power Generation says they hold themselves to a strict standard when it comes to the release of tritium, Shawn-Patrick Stensil of Greenpeace said the findings should prom...

Plants Have the Ability to Recognize Kin

...ve a secret social life is something well known to plant ecologists," the Nature magazine quoted Dudley as ...he plants work out who's who. Ariel Novoplansky, a plant biologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, says that it might be possible that plants ...

Brazil Opens a 'green' Fashion Week

...y -- natural and cultural.' Organizers will also plant 7,800 trees to compensate for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from fashion week activities....

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

...wn to firefighters, the Horticultural Technologies plant contained hundreds of chemicals, including pestici...k plumes of chemical smoke at Hamilton's Plastimet plant in 1997. It is considered one of Canada's worst industrial fires. The Ontario Professional Fire Fi...

Caffeinated Sunflower Seeds To Hit The Market

... shipped to the company’s (Dakota Valley Products) plant at Willow Lake where caffeine, taurine, lysine and ginseng are added. The 3.5-ounce bags of the seeds branded as Sumseeds, sell for almost two dollars, nearly twice the price of normal sunflower seeds. The manufacturers are now working to get t...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop “Next Generation” Vaccine Candidats

...iology of human genetic disorders, brain research, plant genome research, development, validation and commercialisation of diagnostic kits and vaccines for communicable diseases, food biotechnology, biodiversity conservation and bioprospecting, setting up of micropropagation parks and biotechnology based d...

Overseeing Agency Indifferent to Workplace Safety in US

...covered a troubling pattern at a microwave popcorn plant in the town of Jasper. After an additive was modif... with overseeing workplace safety, did not step up plant inspections or mandate safety standards for businesses, even as more workers became ill. Two days...

Earth Day Celebrated With Hopes of a Greener Tomorrow

...us. 'We have to get engaged with the problem and plant trees, stop felling of trees in out own area and save the city and the earth.' Source-IANS/V...

Sewage Swamps River in Scotland

...at beaches might be contaminated. The treatment plant is run by the Scottish Water which is a state-owned company that provides water and sewerage services. Helen Lennox, Scottish Water's head of corporate affairs, apologised to customers for the inconvenience caused. She said: "This was a catastroph...

FDA Grants Approval to First Bird Flu Vaccine

...preparedness."Sanofi manufactures the vaccine at a plant in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania. Philip Hosbach, vice president for immunization policies and government affairs for Paris-based Sanofi, said the company was working to develop ways to make its vaccine more potent. The U.S. Department of Health and H...

Doctors in UK Promoting Awareness of Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease

...r histamines). Histamines are chemicals found in plant and animal tissue and released from certain type of cells as part of an allergic reaction in humans. It stimulates gastric secretion and causes dilation of capillaries, constriction of bronchial smooth muscle, and decreased blood pressure. If the h...

Scientists Find Rice Gene for Grain Size and Yield

...eight of rice grains and increased grain yield per plant by nearly 20 per cent. The high-yield variant had nearly the same cooking or eating quality as conventional rice, although the grains had a darker appearance. The team say the GW2 gene will facilitate breeding efforts to improve grain yield in f...

Are Dietary Supplements Empty Promises?

...l, and that's one element of an incredibly complex plant that has all sorts of different things in it." In conclusion, there is nothing to beat the benefits of a well balanced diet and exercise. /L...

Blood Pressure Tackled Better With Cocoa Than Tea

...nol, procyanids. 'This suggests that the different plant phenols must be differentiated with respect to their blood pressure-lowering potential and thus cardiovascular disease prevention, supposing that the tea phenols are less active than cocoa phenols,' the authors write. The findings do not indicate ...

Lake Superior in US Losing Ice Cover Fast, Signaling Global Warming

...h of daily temperature readings at a hydroelectric plant near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.Austin said a trend toward warmer winters would mean less winter ice cover. That would in turn lead to more solar radiation of the lake and continued warming. The lake loses more water to evaporation in a winter with...

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