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UN: World in big ecological mess

...eace." The four-year assessment was designed by a partnership of UN agencies, international scientific organizations and development agencies, with private sector and civil society input, in response to Mr. Annan's call for global support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which seek to slash a host of...

Ebola virus: from wildlife to dogs

...1) This research, conducted since 2001, involves a partnership between the IRD, the CIRMF (Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Gabon), the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention of Atlanta (USA) and the Centre Pasteur of Cameroon. (2) See Scientific news sheet n° 192 ?Jabuary 2004, ...

Innovative collaboration brings Arctic science into the classroom

...ns to expand the kind of student-teacher-scientist partnership they've developed in Zhigansk to several other sites throughout the Arctic. According to Holmes, "capitalizing on the energy and enthusiasm of students has tremendous benefits for education, for science, and for society. The relationship we've develo...

Confocal imaging promises early detection of skin cancer

...n of their prototype system. “We hope to develop a partnership for this with our Regensburg partner,?says Dr Sheblee. He notes that confocal imaging has great potential for detecting skin cancers and expects significant take-up of the technology in the next five years. ...

South African Tribunal Asks For Damages Estimates in GSK AIDS Drug Case

...atment clinic in Umlazi Township, KwaZulu Natal in partnership with the Network of AIDS Communities of South Africa (NetCom SA) a local non-government organization. In the complaint, AHF and others allege that GSK has charged excessive prices for AIDS drugs to the detriment of South Africans with HIV/AIDS and in...

Defenseless plants arm themselves with metals

...ped at the center will be commercialized through a partnership with the Midwest Hazardous Substance Research Center, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional hazardous substance research center. Salt collaborated in this research with John Freeman, a former graduate student now at the University of Color...

Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge

...artment of Homeland Security (DHS) and operates in partnership with the FBI. To help identify the most pressing gaps in the science and operation of microbial forensics, there was a meeting this past spring sponsored by DHS, with the results reported to the White House. The FBI-led Scientific Working Group on Mi...

Institute for Systems Biology Symposium Addresses Need for Better Computational Tools

...t at the Institute for Systems Biology. "Through a partnership with IBM we are utilizing World Community Grid which is enabling us to complete a project in less than a year that would have taken us approximately 100,000 years to complete with the current computational power at ISB. We have already predicted 50,0...

Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity

...unded manuscripts can provide. This public-private partnership would be much less costly to NIH and would avoid t... had a long, successful, and valued public-private partnership with NIH on publications and other activities to advance science and health," said M. Michele Hogan,...

Pathogen-Mimicking Vaccine As Strategy For Cancer Therapy

...nternational Cancer Vaccine Collaborative (CVC), a partnership established by the New York-based Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and the LICR. "What we're doing is testing a novel adjuvant, a compound that stimulates the immunological response to a vaccine, which is essentially tricking the immune system into t...

Asthma gene clusters identified

...he Computational Medicine Center (CMC), a research partnership with Cincinnati Children's and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. The center specializes is combining computational resources with medicine and genetics in order to customize care for patients based on the patient's individual genetic ...

Nonlinear Dynamics announces more details of its global partnership with PerkinElmer

... today announced further details of its global OEM partnership with PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a leading prov...ent also represents the formation of an integrated partnership between the two companies, with Nonlinear now formally established as PerkinElmer's principal softwa...

International HapMap consortium expands mapping effort

... SNPs to HapMap. The new development, enabled by a partnership among multiple funding sources, will expand that e...d with current, brute force approaches. "This new partnership underscores the private sector's enthusiasm for the HapMap and its potential as a tool for the under...

Kinovate Life Sciences Launches Nittophase?High Performance Solid Support For Oligonucleatide Synthesis

...technical and cost performance. As a result of our partnership with Nitto Denko Corporation, Isis is pleased to i...the success of NittoPhase? Our product development partnership with Nitto Denko is another example of how Isis has used its expertise in RNA-based drug discovery a...

MetaChip provides quick, efficient toxicity screening of potential drugs

...of the National Institutes of Health, represents a partnership among various research institutions in Africa and the United States. Although no licensed microbicides are available to the public currently, scientists hope these agents--designed to be applied to the surface of the vagina to prevent sexually trans...

International trial of two microbicides begins

...of the National Institutes of Health, represents a partnership among various research institutions in Africa and the United States. Although no licensed microbicides are available to the public currently, scientists hope these agents--designed to be applied to the surface of the vagina to prevent sexually trans...

The BIOS Initiative - open source biotechnology is born

...h platform for biological innovation, developed in partnership with CollabNet Inc (www.collab.net). In the tradition of open source software, BioForge makes it possible for scientists to work together to craft new, deliverable technologies within a "protected commons". "BioForge is a hands-on, evolving tool kit...

New Breast Cancer Test Could Save Lives

...ge ventures. SETsquared is part of the enterprise partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey. Based alongside the University’s incubation centre at University Gate East, the SETsquared centre in Bristol is actively supporting over 50 nascent entrepreneurs, offering services su...

W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of friendly microbes

...Washington University in St. Louis, and reflects a partnership between his lab, the lab of Sean Eddy, Ph.D., associate professor of genetics, and members of the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center. The CGS is an innovative, interdepartmental, interdisciplinary enterprise strategically placed next to ...

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