Row over study puts Korea's scientific community under scrutiny again
... views the potential of the incident to damage its bid to inherit Hwang's crown, says Gornall. Before his fall from grace, Professor Hwang received the bulk of Korean government funding in stem cell research. But, in November last year, CHA Medical Group announced its plans to succeed Professor Hwang's n...Living with water scarcity -- world must act now
...s, and the Convention on Biological Diversity in a bid to find solutions to the challenge of balancing the water-food-environment needs The assessment finds that 1/3 of the world’s population live in areas where water scarcity must be reckoned with. While much of this water scarcity cannot be avoi......Transfer Network. The DTI will fund 50% of a total bid worth £1.7 million. Welcoming the research, Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Sainsbury said: "This research initiative provides a real opportunity to harness the world class expertise that we possess in the UK and direct it towards the task...New maps reveal true extent of human footprint on Earth
... are cultivating more and more land in a desperate bid to keep pace with the ever-intensifying needs of humans. As a result, agricultural activity now dominates more than a third of the Earth's landscape and has emerged as one of the central forces of global environmental change, say scientists at the C...In a bid to facilitate collaboration among other biomolecular researchers, the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has become the first institution outside the United Kingdom to join the Biological Simulation Grid Consortium of Great ...