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Genetic defenders protect crops from fungal disease

...p combat fungal parasites that devastate crops and cost growers billions of dollars in pesticides every year. The study, published in the November 18 issue of the journal Science, describes powdery mildew infection in the mustard relative Arabidopsis thaliana. Each species of mildew is host-specific, mea...

University of Arizona plant scientists to unravel maize genome

...m to sequence the corn genome at a fraction of the cost that was necessary to decipher the human genome, which is only slightly larger than the corn genome. "This grant reinforces the position of the UA as a world leader in plantgenomics," said Vicki Chandler, director of BIO5 and a Regents' Professor i...

Is it Possible to Change Prescribing Habits?

...spitals from adverse drug events (ADEs), which can cost a hospital, depending on its size, about US$5.6 mi...etween $1.6 billion and $5.6 billion annually. The cost to patients is also high and not just monetary: those who have an ADE spend on average 8?2 days long...

Penicillin, amoxicillin: Step aside for strep throat treatment

...r ones such as cephalexin (better known as Keflex) cost about the same as penicillin or amoxicillin but ar...as a trade-off for other factors like convenience, cost to families, and likelihood that a less powerful medication can kill the bug just as well as a more ...

Health of coral reefs detected from orbit

...on satellites can only do it on a few reefs due to cost and coverage constraints. We need a system that has appropriate coverage and revisit frequency, with a sufficient amount of spectral bands and sensitivity. There is no more suitable system than MERIS." The team studied Heron Island reef at the sout...

Some good news for the world's poor

...eties, farmers can produce more output at the same cost (or, conversely, the same level of output at a lower cost), which directly improves farmers' income. Second, the diffusion of modern varieties results in lower food prices, as demonstrated in several studies. This is critical given that the poorest ...

Should doctors tell patients about expensive, unfunded drugs?

...it reasonable to ask a patient to finance the full cost of their treatment when it is not provided by gove...ternalism." A further ethical issue concerns the cost of publicly funding newer, expensive treatments, they write. This is an urgent question of distribut...

Access to existing medical treatments could save more lives than spending to improve the treatments

...esources needed for improved delivery of care, may cost more lives than it saves," they wrote. "The misalignment of priorities is driven partly by the commercial interests of industry and by the public's appetite for technological breakthroughs, but health outcomes ultimately suffer." The authors discuss ...

Needle-free immunizations

...-free immunization might initially push the direct cost of immunizations higher," says Mitragotri. "But the secondary costs of needle-based immunization ?infection and disease ?are high and could be prevented with needle-free methods." Mitragotri says that he anticipates that needle-free methods will redu...

Antibacterial coatings cut infection rates

...theters at frequent intervals, and at considerable cost to the health care system. "Another significant p...a major impact on the health of the nation and the cost benefits will be enormous." ...

Study shows AIDS drugs cost-effective, care underfunded

...g high costs for antiretrovirals decreases overall cost of care," said senior author Michael Saag, MD. The...tudy found. "This study confirms the remarkable cost effectiveness of HAART," said Dr. Saag. But it also underscores a grave threat to HIV treatment acro...

Free HIV tests cheaper than charging when goal is preventing AIDS

... four people per day were tested at the clinic, it cost $170 to avert an HIV infection, the study showed. ... $92 each, even without the revenue from fees. The cost includes everything required to run a testing program ?staff salaries, laboratory supplies and test ...

Ancient DNA helps UF researchers unearth potential hemophilia therapy

...rder is a purified form of the protein, but it can cost patients thousands of dollars and its effects don't last long. Scientists have been trying to find a safe way to perform gene therapy in hemophilia patients for years, but problems with the viruses typically used to transport needed genes to their ta...

Newly identified mechanism helps explain why people of African descent are more vulnerable to TB

... enhanced by providing a simple vitamin that would cost only pennies a day." ...

York researchers develop pollution-busting plants to clean up contaminated land

... RDX. It is a sustainable, low maintenance and low cost process which has the potential to clean up large areas of land in military training ranges or industrial sites." So far, the research has involved redeploying the enzyme into a model plant system ?Arabidopsis thaliana ?but in collaboration with res...

Screening blood for West Nile virus

... blood for a reasonable price. (In an ideal world, cost would not matter when it comes to protecting human life and health, but in reality there is limited money available for public health measures. Studies such as this one are therefore essential to help politicians decide how to spend their budget wise...

Experimental TB drug effective against resistant and latent mycobacterium tuberculosis

...ng may be surgically removed. It is estimated the cost of treating a single case of MDR-TB can be as much as $250,000. What makes this drug candidate even more promising, says Parrish, is that it may be the first compound ever to treat latent tuberculosis infection as well. After exposure, tuberculos...

Researchers release new variety of asparagus

...with those produced in other countries where labor cost is low, such as Peru and Mexico," said Mikeal Roose , a professor of genetics in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences and the leader of the asparagus breeding project. "Indeed, Neil Stone, a staff research associate at UCR, and I are working ...

Ancient DNA provides clues to the evolution of social behavior

...son to fight,'' Chan explains. ''Tucos have a high cost to dispersal-if they leave their burrow they tend to get eaten. If they stay home and help their sisters breed, it makes sense because they'll be helping to pass on genes that are almost identical to their own.'' No one knows exactly when social beh...

Ethiopian development raises birth rate

...er resources are already scarce, this comes at the cost of an increase in childhood malnutrition. Dr Gibson said: "This study is, to our knowledge, the first to demonstrate a link between a technological development intervention and an increase in both birth rate and childhood malnutrition. Women's nut...

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