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Progress on HIV/AIDS significant but insufficient

...for children at risk, including by eliminating the cost of schooling and broadening nutritional programmes... for testing initiatives; continuing to reduce the cost of antiretroviral treatment, making such treatment more accessible, in particular for children; and ...

Whisky fans can drink to crop research

.... Industry is contributing 50 per cent towards the cost and the industrial partners include: Advanta Seeds, Coors Brewers UK Ltd, CPB Twyford, Syngenta Seeds Ltd., Nickerson (UK) Ltd., RAGT Seeds, Secobra UK, Svalholf Weibull AB, The Maltsters Association of Great Britain, Scotch Whisky Research Institute...

Green diesel: New process makes liquid transportation fuel from plants

... be consumed to make fuel. "The current delivered cost of biomass is comparable or even cheaper than petroleum-based feedstock on an energy basis," Huber says. "This is one step in figuring out how to efficiently use our biomass resources." ...

Controlling wildlife trade key to preventing health crises, study says

...n of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. The cost of controlling the spread of diseases afflicting b...isease, avian influenza, swine flu and others have cost global economies some $80 billion, the authors of the study say. The results from the poorly regulat...

Firefly protein lets researchers monitor molecule linked to cancer

... using 30 mice. That's going to lead to tremendous cost savings." Because the luciferase-based monitoring system allows monitoring in live animals, Gross could perform multiple tests on the same mouse over time. He was also able to monitor the mice for individual variances that could inappropriately bias...

DDT-resistant insects have additional genetic advantage that helps resistance spread

... DDT resistance in fruit flies not only carries no cost but in fact confers an advantage when inherited th... DDT resistance in fruit flies not only carries no cost but in fact confers an advantage when inherited through the female. This discovery comes at a time ...

NHGRI expands effort to revolutionize sequencing technologies

...ive sequencing technologies intended to reduce the cost of DNA sequencing and expand the use of genomics i...y will these technologies substantially reduce the cost of sequencing a genome, but they will provide a quantum leap in the scope and scale of research aime...

A step toward the $1,000 personal genome using readily available lab equipment

... the E. coli bacterial genome at a fraction of the cost of conventional sequencing using off-the-shelf ins...H) Center for Excellence in Genomic Science. "The cost of $1,000 for a human genome should allow prioritization of detailed diagnostics and therapeutics, a...

Emerald Spectre haunts Ontario's ash forests

...a and the United States. It's a failure that would cost billions of dollars in lost timber and ornamental trees, and dramatically change the forest and neighbourhood landscape in eastern North America - with even more impact than Dutch elm disease. The soon-to-be published study is the first to document ...

California computer scientists double volume of data in NIH biotech repository

...w many and which SNPs to collect - to minimize the cost and processing power needed for the most effective study correlating genetic data and the incidence of disease." Disease association research is the main reason why the group from Calit2 and ICSI opted to identify tag SNPs across the entire NCBI d...

U-M scientists say fused genes trigger the development of prostate cancer

...w many and which SNPs to collect - to minimize the cost and processing power needed for the most effective study correlating genetic data and the incidence of disease." Disease association research is the main reason why the group from Calit2 and ICSI opted to identify tag SNPs across the entire NCBI d...

Method slashes quantum dot costs by 80 percent

...eck, and it made us look at the problem of solvent cost sooner rather than later." Quantum dots typically cost more than $2,000 per gram from commercial sources, and pricey solvents like octadecene, or ODE - the...

The right drug at the right time

...eck, and it made us look at the problem of solvent cost sooner rather than later." Quantum dots typically cost more than $2,000 per gram from commercial sources, and pricey solvents like octadecene, or ODE - the...

New discovery: If it weren't for this enzyme, decomposing pesticide would take millennia

... Using enzymes in reactions can greatly reduce the cost of a lot of chemical processes. Finding the enzyme in bacteria in fields never before exposed to the pesticide Shell D-D would demonstrate that that it had not evolved in the past 50 years, Wolfenden said. "What is also remarkable, and unexpected, ...

Zebrafish may hold key to improved cancer research

...er and carcinogens, as well as a tool to lower the cost for drug development, OSU experts said. The first comprehensive cancer research studies using this small, striped tropical fish were begun at OSU over 10 years ago, and the species has become an important tool in medical research programs around the...

Retinal scans eyed for New Mexico show cattle

...s might not be practical on a working ranch due to cost and technical skill required. Separately, NMSU ex...Extension Service. Even though the new system will cost producers more money, it will eventually mean the full tracking of animal movement throughout the na...

HIV mortality in India drops with introduction of generic antiretroviral therapy

...ust $33 per month in 2003. The drastically lower cost of ART sparked a rise in the number of people seeking--and obtaining--treatment for their infection. Researchers in India and Rhode Island found that in 1996, just 13 percent of the Indian patients who qualified for ART were able to afford it. But th...

The shape of things to come: Morphology database going global

...h the amount of disk space on each machine and the cost to any one institution. Although scientists will be the only ones to have access to the system to deposit, retrieve or comment on items, the system is free and may be viewed by anyone. "Everyone from kindergartners to the top researchers in the wor...

Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say

...d Sri Lanka. Officials estimate the total repair cost throughout the affected area at $5.8 billion, while a total of $4.4 billion has been committed to specific projects. There has been a total pledge of at least $7.5 billion from the following sources: multilateral donors $2 billion; bilateral donors $...

Stroke treatment a step closer after trial

...atoid arthritis but, as a long-term treatment, the cost is prohibitive. With stroke, the drug would have to be administered within the first few critical hours through an infusion over a short period of time, perhaps as little as three days. Dr Tyrrell, who is based at Hope Hospital in Salford, added: "S...

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