Winemaking waste proves effective against disease-causing bacteria in early studies

...hole fruit, eliminating the need to use up perfectly good food to make any future drugs. Accordingly, the USDA is especially interested in the idea of bioprospecting in the winery versus the rainforest. Study Details Koo, who conducts his research at the Eastman Dental Center, concluded early in his career ...

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Experts meet on need for new rules to govern world's fragile polar regions

... the duration of ice-coverage can only be made at the end of the year? bioprospecting is also emerging as an issue in both polar regions, says Dr. Leary of UNU-I...stions arise in the Arctic as well. It is quite suprising but it looks like bioprospecting is already a well established commercial activity in the Arctic, perhaps ex...

Unexplored microbes hold incredible potential for science and industry

...of discovery." Because microbes play so many roles in so many environments, they hold incredible potential for industry, agriculture, and medicine. bioprospecting has already opened the door to many commercial applications -- including probiotics, biofuels, and wastewater treatment. The wealth of bacteria, virus...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 28, 2007

...pectors identify hot new biofuel-producing bacteria Energy & Fuels A bioprospecting expedition to Icelands famed hot springs has yielded new strains of bacteri...rogen or ethanol from carbohydrates. ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE bioprospecting Thermophilic Microorganisms from Icelandic Hot Springs for Hydrogen and Eth...

A Father’s Day Gift: Free DNA Paternity Testing

...ng enormous interest from scientists and companies bioprospecting for possible pharmaceutical or industrial applicat...genes to advance human welfare. The new report, bioprospecting of Genetic Resources in the Deep Seabed (online at...t. Seabed is not a lawless realm, but almost bioprospecting in the seabed within territorial limits is current...

Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU

...ng enormous interest from scientists and companies bioprospecting for possible pharmaceutical or industrial applicat...genes to advance human welfare. The new report, bioprospecting of Genetic Resources in the Deep Seabed (online at...t. Seabed is not a lawless realm, but almost bioprospecting in the seabed within territorial limits is current...

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Lucigen receives $750K grant to boost biofuel yields

...production. The product is the company's second bioprospecting find as the result of discovering enzymes in previ...own viruses from boiling hot springs. In its first bioprospecting discovery, it found enzymes that promise to increa...ion from soybeans and biomass. Lucigen has been bioprospecting hot springs and other high-temperature environment...

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Archaea

...Archaea ArchaeaWeb - by UNSW - Information about Archaea Introduction to the Archaea, ecology, systematics and morphology Extremophiles bioprospecting for antimicrobials, Dr Sarah Maloney Citat: "...Ground breaking research on extremophiles continues to this day, with the recently discovered 22nd ge...

Biodiversity

...its resulting from their use. Under these new rules, it is expected that bioprospecting or collection of natural products has to be allowed by the biodiversity-r...used and for what, and to settle on a fair agreement on benefit sharing . bioprospecting can become a type of biopiracy when those principles are not respected. ...