Bringing the zoos to the zebras
Princeton biologist reports at AAAS on partnership with St. Louis Zoo to empower Kenyan communities in endangered Grevy's zebra conservation The Grevy's zebra is the most endangered member of the horse family in the world, with an estimated 2000 left in the wild. More than 70 percent of these live in the Samburu region of northern Kenya, most of them on unprotected community lands. Now an...Plant-cell-produced technologies-cutting edge approach to bringing solutions to the market
Four months after the world's first vaccine made in plant cells has received regulatory approval in the US, Dow AgroSciences is organising a Science Conference in Brussels on 7 June 2006 in order to share this knowledge with European researchers, scientists, decision-makers and industry representatives. The pioneering vaccine developed by Dow AgroSciences works against the Newcastle diseas...TDS tries bringing fiber to homes in Fitchburg for faster Internet service
TDS Metrocom has launched a pilot program for one Fitchburg neighborhood, offering broadband Internet speeds of as high as 10 megabits per secondseveral times higher than the fastest cable and DSL packages currently availablein order to gauge customer usage and potential applications of an emerging technology. With whats going on with the Internet today, we believe consumers are going to...NimbleGen closes $8.2m venture round, bringing total to $50m
Madison biotech firm The company makes tools for genetic research. Its microarrays, basically slides that can have thousands of individual genetic samples on them arranged in a grid, allow scientists a...Bringing distance learning alive
That's the message of Katherine "Kit" Horton, a partner in the Denver-based "Wh...Victorian Initiative: Coffers Are Ringing For an Upcoming Cancer Agency
The Victorian Government has taken on the onus of improving the treatment for cancer patients, and as a first step, a new cancer agency// with a $15 million funding will be instituted. The detailed statement by the government, to be announced soon, during the pre-budget statement, will also outline the other medical initiatives on the anvil, along with details of financial assistance...Medico’s Return to Work Bringing Respite to Patient
Health services returned to normal in the capital Thursday, a day after resident doctors called off their 20-day anti-quota strike, bringing much needed relief to thousands of patients//. Large numbers of patients queued up Thursday morning at the out patient departments (OPDs) of all major government-run hospitals that had been virtually under a state of siege for the past three weeks...Cialis- Bringing Respite To ED Effectively
Sexual problems and male impotence can be a thing of the past with the intervention of a wonderful drug called Cialis. Cialis takes you beyond the world of Viagra and is// perhaps the only ED drug, clinically proven to both work up to 36 hours and work in some men as fast as in 30 minutes from the time of the intake of the medicine. Cialis has an edge over Viagra Did you know...Low Pitch Therapy for ‘ringing in the Ears
UC Irvine researchers have found a treatment for tinnitus, the hearing damage loud music can cause.// Fan-Gang Zeng and colleagues have identified an effective way to treat the symptoms of tinnitus, a form of hearing damage typically marked by high-pitched ringing that torments more than 60 million Americans. The researchers found that a low-pitched sound applied by a simple MP3 play...Student Beaten With Hammer for Not Bringing Book
A Class 9 student is in hospital here with a fractured shoulder after he was hit with a hammer by his teacher for failing to bring a book. Sugam Kumar Singh of Loyola school had forgotten to bring his English literature book on Friday and this infuriated his teacher, Subrato Das. Das first slapped the boy and later beat him with a hammer used to ring the class bell. After hitting t...