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UCR biochemist goes to Washington with high-protein corn

...based coalition of agricultural producers, science societies and universities, is sponsoring the seminar. In the United States, the vast majority of corn - nearly 65 percent - is used to feed animals for meat production. Much of the remainder is exported to other countries for feeding animals or made into cor...

Beauty queens urge girls not to sacrifice their bones

...00 delegates from IOF member national osteoporosis societies in more than 50 countries are expected to attend. "It is particularly important that we are meeting in Bangkok because the number of people suffering from osteoporosis is growing fastest in the Asian region," noted IOF Chief Executive Officer Daniel...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades

...s greatest environmental challenges, destabilizing societies by deepening poverty and creating environmental refugees who can often add stress to areas that may not be degraded. Desertification has other strong adverse impacts on non-drylands as well. In addition to dust storms, biophysical impacts include do...

Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

...nment, industry, providers, academia, professional societies and third-party payers that has resulted in record low levels of vaccine-preventable diseases and record high levels of immunizations among children. According to the article, however, problems with vaccine supply, cost and safety threaten to derail ...

UN: World in big ecological mess

...sessment is that it lies within the power of human societies to ease the strains we are putting on the nature services of the planet, while continuing to use them to bring better living standards to all," the MA board of directors said in a statement, "Living beyond Our Means: Natural Assets and Human Well-bei...

Supercomputers to focus brains on AIDS dilemma

...an twenty million lives and continues to devastate societies around the world, particularly in Africa and other developing countries. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after years of effort AIDS researchers succeeded in developing a class of drugs that proved to be highly effective against AIDS. By blocking t...

Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive

...or the other person. But rejected men and women in societies around the world sometimes kill themselves or someone else. In fact, studies indicate that some 40% of people who are rejected in love slip into clinical depression. Our study may also suggest some of the underlying physiology of stalking behavior," ...

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

...cretionary spending; # It will harm the scientific societies that peer review and publish a significant portion...esearch; # It will limit the ability of scientific societies to partner with NIH to nurture the next generation of scientists and future NIH grantees; and # It w...

Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment

...ncluded that the environmental benefits that human societies depend on and take for granted--basic necessities such as food, clean air, potable water and fuel--are rapidly being degraded. "[The assessment] examines the state of the global environment, but it's more than that," said Harold A. Mooney, the Paul ...

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