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Bt cotton in China fails to reap profit after seven years

...ional cotton farmers because Bt seed is triple the cost of conventional seed. In addition to Pinstrup-Andersen, the study was conducted by Shenghui Wang, Cornell doctoral candidate in applied economics and management, and now an economist at the World Bank, and Cornell professor David R. Just. They stre...

Tamoxifen for breast cancer prevention does not benefit most women

...cent risk level. In comparison, annual flu shots cost about $980 per year of life saved for patients ages 65 and older; colonoscopy every 10 years costs about $11,000 per year of life saved for people 50 and older; and annual mammography costs about $58,000 per year of life saved for women ages 40 to 80...

U of M researchers discover genetic key to treating deadly fungal infections

...es resistant to a drug, making it ineffective. The cost to the U.S. health care industry is $1 billion per year. Berman explained that drugs that are toxic to fungi are often toxic to humans. Thus, anti-fungal drugs are usually intended to suppress, rather than kill, C. albicans. This suppression enco...

Elephants, large mammals recover from poaching in Africa's oldest national park

... Efforts to curb poaching have come with a high cost over the past few years. Over 100 park guards in Virunga Park have been killed since 1996 while trying to prevent poaching, and one was killed as recently as May 2006. Currently, park guards receive only $1 per month as a salary from the government, ...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

...ut the genomic contribution to disease, and as the cost of obtaining sequence information decreases, genomic sequence information will become ever more important both for medical research and for providing medically relevant information to individuals. When it becomes affordable for an individual's genome...

Pollution threatens coral health by preventing lesions from healing, UCF study shows

...ons and residents to decide whether it's worth the cost of solving whatever problems are discovered. Solutions include additional treatment of storm-water runoff and wastewater discharges and enforcing regulations on industries that are likely causing pollution. ...

Beekeepers work hard for the honey, despite changing tupelo forest

...d development, higher property taxes and increased cost of living - that makes this study significant, Stallins said. Watson, who abandoned her dissertation on fair-trade labeling of coffee in Mexico in order to focus on what she believes is an urgent need closer to home, said her interest in the issues...

Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says

... for BSE.'" Berlowitz cited news reports that the cost of such testing would add only6 to 10 cents to a pound of beef. His article further warns of poor oversight of cattle feed. In particular, the slaughterhouse practice of "rendering," or recycling dead cows and sheep into protein for cattle feed, is...

Science captures the essence of fruit

...oduce large amounts of a desired compound at a low cost and with little environmental impact. And because biofermentation uses the actual genes that plants use in the wild, the resulting flavour or fragrance compound has exactly the same molecular make-up. It is, as the scientists say; "Nature Identical"....

Leptin found to control appetite and limb development in frogs

...isadvantage with little fat reserves. They pay the cost of immediate survival by being more prone to drying out, to being eaten by predators and reaching sexual maturity at a later age. Denver speculates that leptin is probably important to gauge whether the tadpole has adequate energy reserves---in the f...

DOE publishes research roadmap for developing cleaner fuels

...or Science Raymond L. Orbach said. "Low production cost and high efficiency require transformational changes in processing cellulose to ethanol. DOE's Genomics: GTL program is poised to help do just that." The roadmap responds directly to the goal recently announced by Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodm...

NYU algorithm enhances ability to detect cancer genes

...stical algorithms of this nature keep improving in cost and accuracy, it will prove useful in finding good biomarkers, drug discovery, disease diagnosis, and choosing correct therapeutic intervention. The members of the NYU group (the authors, Dr. Salvatore Paxia and Dr. Thomas Anantharaman) are in the pr...

Eco-friendly bug sucker

...ood and farming industries. "The initial hardware cost of an MSDD system is higher than methyl bromide, but the cost of chemicals is much cheaper, so that eventually it would pay for itself", Essert told Chemistry &am...

Origen publishes in Nature a robust and versatile method for creating transgenic chickens

... production in chicken eggs. Moreover, the overall cost of facility and operations is a fraction of that associated with fermentation methods of manufacture. The ability to readily create transgenic chickens through this technology, and then to scale up production through conventional breeding further add...

New study reveals structure of E. coli multidrug transporter protein

...Multidrug resistant bacterial infections raise the cost of medical treatment and are far more expensive th...Centers for Disease Control, second-line drugs can cost as much as "$33,000 per patient in industrialized countries compared to $84 for first-line drugs." I...

Amgen introduces comprehensive financial assistance programs for cancer patients

...ogram that provides Amgen oncology medicines at no cost to qualifying uninsured patients. Available to patients with household adjusted gross incomes of up to $75,000 per year, The SAFETY NET Foundation is one of the most generous oncology product donation programs in the industry. Amgen also donates m...

Got inexpensive contrast agent? Milk plays new role in imaging

...enous contrast for abdominal discomfort to compare cost effectiveness and patient tolerance for whole milk versus VoLumen. Sixty-two patients received VoLumen, and 117 received milk. Of the 57 VoLumen patients who completed a subsequent questionnaire, 24 (42 percent) experienced abdominal discomfort such ...

A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species

...on is unlikely to extinguish a species because the cost of finding the last individuals would outweigh the...the rare, market price will cover (and exceed) the cost of harvesting the last giant parrot, tegu lizard, or lady's slipper orchid on Earth. The authors ...

Other patients bear the real cost of Herceptin

The real cost of Herceptin is borne by other patients whose trea...and monitoring patients are added. But the real cost lies in the services that will be cut to provide this money, they write. To illustrate this, they...

Climate change has surprising effect on endangered naked carp

...e MO2 [oxygen consumption] data indicate that the cost of living for the naked carp is 40 percent lower in lake-water than in river-water, and that this difference is almost complete within twelve hours after transfer," write the authors. "The magnitude of this response is remarkable." But they cautio...

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