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Butterfly farming to help save rain forest

...hat they can ship to one of these customers can be worth between 2 and 5 UK pounds. The creation of a sustainable butterfly farming business would help preserve the local rain forest in two ways. Firstly the local population will have a sustainable business that allows them to turn away from other activit...

Ecosystem services and invasive species

...ellato, the Overton park stores a volume of carbon worth $40,000 ?$200,000 and adds more storage space through growth, worth $2,000 ?$ 10,000 each year. Cappellato and Bohnert plan to study the park further, as well as expan...

Research links protein to breast-cancer migration

...r Campaign funding for two other research projects worth nearly £300,000. Dr. Andrew Gilmore, also in the Faculty of Life Sciences, has been awarded a grant of £146,000 to examine in more detail a process called "anoikis." Anoikis is the process whereby the body ambushes and kills roving cells that have ...

Harmful Algal Blooms monitored from space in Chile

... over the last 30 years, causing millions of Euros worth of annual losses to the 360 fish farms found in th... has become a capital-intensive industry in Chile, worth nearly 1 billion Euros a year with direct and indirect benefits for employment and other industries....

Nanotechnology being used to improve biocompatibility of human prosthetics and implants

...tings on titanium alloy implants are proving their worth in orthopaedic and dental applications. The most promising form of CP are hydroxyapatite (Ca 10 (PO 4 ) 6 (OH) 2 , HA) coatings used to promote rapid bone remodelling on the titanium alloy implants. It is well known that the microstructure of these...

Massive duplication of genes may solve Darwin's 'abominable mystery' about flowering plants

...uplications, simultaneously having a full genome's worth of raw material to elaborate new genetic function could drive sudden evolution. But because of the rapid, massive gene loss after a whole-genome duplication, these events are notoriously difficult to detect after millions of years. So dePamphilis a...

Eco-friendly bug sucker

...rt told Chemistry & Industry. Around $20 - $40 worth of methyl bromide is needed to fumigate one pallet of fruit, whereas Carbon Dioxide and Ethanol used to treat with MSDD, assuming no recovery, would cost about $10.00. MSDD also has additional benefits to the environment, as the gasses can be recove...

Plant diseases threaten chocolate production worldwide

...ead, FL. Currently, 4 million metric tons of beans worth more than $4 billion are produced each year. The global chocolate market is worth $75 billion annually. According to Ploetz, the three most important and damaging cacao diseases ar...

A green way to slag off bunnies

... In the UK alone, rabbits cause an estimated £115m worth of damage annually. Researcher David Cowen and his team at Central Science Laboratory showed that applying slag to wheat growing in greenhouses had no effect on yield, but caused the plants to incorporate the silica and express it as spiky structu...

Taking 'chips' to the next level of gene hunting

...ld thousands of these dots - even a whole genome's worth of information - scientists in the future may be able to rapidly and efficiently identify, by comparing a DNA sample from a patient with the DNA on the chip, exactly where mutations lie. "With standard chips, we're missing a big piece of the pict...

Using nature's most primitive anti-viral defense system to find new approaches to cancer research

...ef Executive says the grant awarded to Dr Baum and worth £136,000 has been given in line with the charity's policy of funding the most exciting and novel approaches to research worldwide. "We believe it important to fund work that pushes the boundaries of science, and Dr Baum and his team are charged with ...

Recycling technology

...sfer Network. The DTI will fund 50% of a total bid worth £1.7 million. Welcoming the research, Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Sainsbury said: "This research initiative provides a real opportunity to harness the world class expertise that we possess in the UK and direct it towards the task of we...

Fake pesticides threaten food safety

...ice,' he says. The EU crop protection market is worth ?.5bn. Counterfeits cost the EU between ?1m and ?0m in lost taxes. The ECPA recently launched a pan-European Anti-Counterfeit Programme, in an effort to get governments and regulators to use their powers to enforce regulatory policies. ...

One-of-a-kind imaging probe reveals secrets useful for drug discovery

...king of a single walking stick is very small. It's worth a try." They discovered compounds not previously known to be present in these animals, as well as chemical differences in secretions from the same walking stick at different times. Notably, they found a high concentration of glucose, a simple sugar ...

Widely used iron nanoparticles exhibit toxic effects on neuronal cells

...involved in cell motility and cell shape. "It's worth noting that neither iron oxide nanoparticles alone, nor the coating material alone are overtly toxic, but combining the two to create water-soluble nanoparticles has a completely different effect," said Pisanic, who carried out the studies as a part ...

Syphilis rate on rise in US gay, bisexual men

Armed with more than a decade’s worth of statistics, researchers are sounding a new alarm about growing rates of syphilis among gay and bisexual men. The overall number of syphilis cases in the United States fell from 50,578 in 1990 to just 7,177 in 2003 perhaps because of a nationwide ...

Organic is healthier: Kiwis prove that green is good

...et for certified organic foods was estimated to be worth US $23-25 billion in 2003 and is growing approximately 19% every year, making these products the fastest-growing sector of the global food industry. Also of interest in C&I issue 6 2007: Grapefruit diet has hearty perks Compounds in grapefruit...

Map predicting spread of avian flu

...g method, an approach which has already proved its worth in the analysis of infectious diseases such as the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK. The method can estimate the key parameters which determine the spread of highly transmissible animal diseases between farms. These risk maps identify geographi...

Scientists genetically engineer tomatoes with enhanced folate content

...ganism's genes--to make tomatoes with a full day's worth of the nutrient in a single serving. The scientists published their results in this week's online edition of the journal PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "This could potentially be beneficial worldwide," said Andrew Hanson, a...

Peanut allergies overstated, study finds

...ive result, people need to ask whether it might be worth a peanut challenge in a hospital environment, especially if their child has never had an allergic reaction to peanut before," Dr Wainstein said. ...

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