Dow in Biological News

Herbicide diversity needed to keep Roundup effective

.... However, a system that incorporates other herbicides with glyphosate can be sustainable for quite some time." The Indiana Soybean Alliance, BASF, dow AgroSystems, Monsanto and Syngenta funded Johnson's study. His next step is looking at management strategies that reduce the prevalence of other weeds...

Termite killer lingers as a potent greenhouse gas

... large amounts are emitted into the atmosphere." Mhle credited the assistance of the chief manufacturer of sulfuryl fluoride in the United States, dow AgroSciences, in the study. "They've been very cooperative in sharing with us their estimates of global industrial sulfuryl fluoride production," ...

Almond pest management team to receive major award at ESA meeting

...ive Extension farm advisors Mario Viveros, Kern County, Roger Duncan, Stanislaus County, and Joe Connell, Butte County; and scientist Barat Bisrabi, dow AgroSciences. Both Pickel and Bentley are UC IPM advisors. The team developed and implemented a program "that has resulted in substantial reduction...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac

...CS' weekly news magazine. The cover story, written by C&EN Senior Business Editor Melody Voith, points out that big industrial companies, such as dow Chemical, General Electric, Nalco, and Ashland, must manage day-to-day operations in ways that conserve and reuse water. Once regarded as a cheap and ...

Entomological Society of America names 2008 award winners

...e professionalism of entomology. This year's recipient, Dr. Scott H. Hutchins , is Global Director for Crop Protection R&D within the R&D Function of dow AgroSciences. Crop Protection R&D includes all aspects of product design for products (process research, formulations, product chemistry, packaging en...

Nano vaccine for hepatitis B shows promise for third world

...native booster method for existing vaccines," says James R. Baker, Jr., M.D., the study's senior author and director of the institute. He also is Ruth dow Doan Professor and allergy division chief in the U-M Department of Internal Medicine. The nanoemulsion is made up of soybean oil, alcohol, water a...

Sangamo BioSciences to Present at the Bank of America 2008 Healthcare Conference

...ucleases (ZFNTM) for gene modification. Sangamo has established strategic partnerships with companies outside of the human therapeutic space including dow AgroSciences, Sigma-Aldrich and several companies applying its ZFP Technology to enhance the production of protein pharmaceuticals. For more informati...

MIT professor to discuss future of biofuels

...irst half will cover biofuels policy and the second will focus on technical issues in converting biomass to fuel. Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry dow Professor of Chemical Engineering, will discuss his own research, which involves bioengineering yeast. He and colleagues have developed a new way to e...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Oct. 31, 2007

...TICLE #5 EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, Nov. 5, 2007 Medical plastics industry on the rebound Chemical & Engineering News In the wake of dow Cornings bankrupting experience with silicone gel breast implants, the medical plastics industry is now undergoing a renaissance. Medical plastics are...

SCI marks expansion into Asia with the launch of SCI INDIA

...Medicinal Chemistry, New Drug Discovery Research, Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, Mr. Raj Kapur, Regional Manager South Asia, Managing Director India, dow Corning India Pvt. Ltd, Mr . Pradip Dave, Chairman & Managing Director of Aimco Pesticides Limited & President-Pesticides Manufacturers & Formulators ...

Plant-cell-produced technologies-cutting edge approach to bringing solutions to the market

... cells has received regulatory approval in the US, dow AgroSciences is organising a Science Conference in...esentatives. The pioneering vaccine developed by dow AgroSciences works against the Newcastle disease v...ilestone for the company and the industry. The dow AgroSciences Concert Plant-Cell-Produced System re...

Cousin of Asian super termite invades Florida

...ram kills an entire colony containing millions of termites. The control is marketed worldwide as the Sentricon Termite Colony Elimination System by dow AgroSciences. ...

Probing the promise and perils of nanoparticles

...ture, Science, and the Arts, and focuses on biomedical applications of nanomaterials. Collaborators on this work include James R. Baker, Jr., the Ruth dow Doan Professor of Biologic Nanotechnology; Bradford Orr, professor of physics and director of the Applied Physics Program; research associate Jennifer...

Probing The Promise And Perils Of Nanoparticles

...ture, Science, and the Arts, and focuses on biomedical applications of nanomaterials. Collaborators on this work include James R. Baker, Jr., the Ruth dow Doan Professor of Biologic Nanotechnology; Bradford Orr, professor of physics and director of the Applied Physics Program; research associate Jennifer...

DNA Molecules Used To Assemble Nanoparticles

... "With this approach, you can target a wide variety of molecules---drugs, contrast agents---to almost any cell," said Dr. James R. Baker Jr., the Ruth dow Doan Professor of Nanotechnology and director of the Center for Biologic Nanotechnology at U-M. Nanoparticle complexes can be specifically targeted ...