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Changing ecosystems throw scientists mega-challenges

Accelerating environmental changes have presented humanity with some significant scientific and engineering challenges, according to the new National Science Foundation (NSF) report, Pathways to the Future: Complex Environmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life and Society in the 21st Century. Among the changes the report cites are rapid shifts in climate and ecosystems, the degradation...

Measurement Challenges In Detecting Cancer Biomarkers

Effective control of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) requires treatment of the sexual partners of infected patients. A new study shows that providing infected men with antibiotics to give their partners is more effective than traditional means of contacting and treating the partners, according to an article in the Sept. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. Men with...

Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative funds Yale project

Yale has been offered $17 million from the Grand Challenges in Global health initiative to genetically engineer mice with immune systems similar enough to humans to aid in testing the safety and effectiveness of potential vaccines. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Yale project will be headed by Richard A. Flavell, M.D., Sterling Professor and Chair of Immunobiology at...

Report focuses on challenges to unlocking future promise of vaccines

Vaccines have helped eradicate and tame some of history's worst infectious diseases, but there are many more diseases out there that vaccines can help overcome. The challenges society needs to confront to unlock the future promise of vaccines against the plagues of the 21st century are the focus of a new report by the American Academy of Microbiology. "The success of vaccines in controlli...

The brain, traffic and nano-circuits -- e-Science takes on major challenges

Research into three major scientific and technological challenges is to receive a major boost from the application of e-Science and grid computing. The challenges are, understanding the brain, mapping the detailed environmental impact of traffic and designing future generation nano-scale electronic circuits. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and other funding p...

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The Best Enzyme for the Toughest PCR Challenges Improved with New Hot-Start Feature

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WARF challenges show need for patent reform

Specifically, the process of challenging patents, such as those held by WARF, needs streamlining....

Manufacturers face challenges of innovation

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Consumer, business technologies face same challenges

Each DEMO event captures a moment in the wild ride that is this personal technology industry. Indeed, over this conference's 16 years, we've seen ups and downs and more recently ups again. We've seen moments that have defined a year, like the great last hurrah of the Internet...

RFID medical devices - Opportunities and challenges

on information technology opportunities noted that the FDA sees radio frequency identification (RFID) technology as critical for the long-term safety and integrity of the U.S. drug supply. RFID allows pharmaceutical packages to be tracked, traced and authenticated throughout the chain of distr...

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Momentum of Stem cell research impeded by legal challenges

California in the year 2005 planned to begin stem cell research in the state with the approval of 61% of voters passing the Proposition 71. But the legal challenges have impeded the initiative. // The officials now say that it would take spring 2007 before the project will be initiated. Zach Hall, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, told his board of directo...

Australia Ready to Meet the Challenges of Bird Flu

The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said that the risk of the H5N1 strain reaching Australia was very high. // OIE director-general Bernard Vallat reported this to the French parliamentary commission on the disease and put the United States and Canada in the same risk category. It said that the avian flu was likely to be transmitted from Indonesia by migratory birds. But th...

Sexual Health Service Is Under Pressure and Faced With Financial Challenges

In Dundee, UK a sexual health service for young people was opened in 2002. This mainly helps and attends to teenage sexual problems especially to those living in Western Europe. // The main aim of this service was to reduce the growing number of sexual problems among the teenagers. According to the statistics Dundee, is the city with the highest proportion of young teenage pregnancies in Western...

Abuja Challenges the Government

Abuja, the African leader set new targets to the government on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. He said this in the Nigerian capital. a major resolution was passed,// declaring that at least 80 % of the patients suffering from these diseases should have access to HIV/AIDS treatment such as antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, care and support. Civil society organizations were eager to note these target...

Nurses in South Africa Face Challenges

Yet another International Nurses' Day has gone by but still South Africa's own nursing community is faced with numerous challenges//. "On this day we salute the nurses of South Africa and celebrate those who give so much of themselves to better the lives of others in need," said Siphokazi Phillip, international relations co-ordinator for the Democratic Nurses Organisation of South Afr...

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Neuroblastoma Expert Reviews Progress and Challenges in Fighting Difficult Pediatric Cancer

PHILADELPHIA, June 25, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Childhoodcancers are fortunately rare, but among them, neuroblastoma is aspecial case, accounting for 7 percent of all childhood cancers,but 15 percent of childhood cancer deaths. It typically occurs as asolid tumor in the abdomen, but also in the neck, chest, andpelvis, developing in the network of the body's sympathetic nervoussyst...

Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers Focuses on the Challenges of Care and Research in Multiple Sclerosis

WASHINGTON, June 01, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual meeting ofthe Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC), the largestmeeting devoted to the comprehensive care and science of multiplesclerosis (MS), is underway in the nation's capital today. Multiplesclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system that affects400,000 people in the United States, challenges patients, carepartne...

Schering-Plough Addresses Major Milestones and Challenges in Treatment of Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C

Highlights key data at the 42nd annual meeting of the EuropeanAssociation for the Study of the Liver (EASL) KENILWORTH, N.J., April 11, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Schering-Plough Corporation reaffirms its commitment to advancingthe science and treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV)infection with several key data presentations at the EuropeanAssociation for the Study of the Liver...