Second Harvest Heartland Honors Hunger Hero David Nasby
Inaugural Director's Award presented at 2009 Dish benefit SAINT PAUL, Minn., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Second Harvest Heartland, the Upper Midwest's largest hunger-relief organization, has honored David Nasby, former vice president of the General Mills Foundation and founder of the nation's first...Ecolab to Support Second Harvest Heartland Hunger Relief Efforts
Donation will help the organization begin to overcome the 125-million meal shortfall in Minnesota SAINT PAUL, Minn., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Second Harvest Heartland, the Upper Midwest's leading voice on hunger relief, today announced that it is one of three Minnesota hunger-relief organizati...2008 Idaho Potato Harvest Forecast: Plentiful, High-Quality Spuds
Potatoes Still Provide Biggest Nutritional Bang for a Buck ... Actually, Only a Quarter EAGLE, Idaho, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 growing season was spectacular for Idaho spuds. The combination of warm days, cool nights and just the right amount of rainfall crea...America's Second Harvest Provides Emergency Food and Water to Tropic Storm Fay Evacuees
CHICAGO, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- America's Second Harvest -- The Nation's Food Bank Network is prepared to provide food, water, grocery products and cleaning supplies to member food banks in Florida that serve people affected by Tropical Storm Fay. The network stages supplies thro...Fresh Harvest Products, Inc. Announces New Brand Initiative
NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fresh Harvest Products, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: FRHV.OB) announced today that it is expanding and enhancing its long standing commitment to providing consumers with the best, natural and organic product offerings, through a new initiative to build ...American Red Cross Honors America's Second Harvest at Heritage of Service Dinner
A Celebration of Inspiration and Hope WASHINGTON, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Red Cross will honor America's Second Harvest with its prestigious Ernest P. Bicknell Award at the organization's Heritage of Service Dinner this evening. The Heritage of Service Dinner is a cele...StemCor Systems Receives CE Mark for MarrowMiner(TM) System for Bone Marrow Collection
...Miner System. The MarrowMiner System is a minimally invasive device used to harvest adult stem cells from the ilium (pelvis), and represents next-generation te...cent clinical studies demonstrated the ability of the MarrowMiner to safely harvest marrow with significantly higher stem cell activity than is contained in st...Benitec MOU With CalbaTech, Inc.
...ew subsidiary, TherapyStem, Inc., has created a patent-pending., process to harvest stem cells from HIV infected individuals to be cryopreserved for future tra...baTech's wholly owned subsidiary LifeStem has developed a unique process to harvest stem cells in micro quantities to be cryopreserved for future transplantati...Nanofarming technology harvest biofuel oils without harming algae
AMES, Iowa Algae is widely touted as the next best source for fueling the world's energy needs. But one of the greatest challenges in creating biofuels from algae is that when you extract the oil from the algae, it kills the organisms, dramatically raising production costs. Now researchers at ...Iowa State researchers study ground cover to reduce impact of biomass harvest
AMES, Iowa -- Ground cover may be one workable method to reduce the effects of erosion that future biomass harvests are predicted to bring. Iowa State University researchers are looking at ways to use ground cover, a living grass planted between the rows of corn, in production farming. The s...Triple threat: World fin trade may harvest up to 73 million sharks per year
The first real-data study of sharks harvested for their valuable fins estimates as few as 26 million and as many as 73 million sharks are killed each year worldwide--three times higher than was reported originally by the United Nations, according to a paper published as the cover story in the Octob...Primates harvest bee nests in Ugandan reserve
In the first study of native African honeybees and honey-making stingless bees in the same habitat, humans and chimpanzees are the primary bee nest predators. Robert Kajobe of the Dutch Tropical Bee Research Unit and David Roubik from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute report this finding...Holding breath for several minutes elevates marker for brain damage
...eath-hold diving in Japan and some other parts of the world that goes back hundreds of years, although the occupation has been dying out. These divers harvest seaweed, shellfish and other growth from the sea bottom, diving dozens of times per day. Some divers routinely dive to depths of 90 feet on a single b...Organic food not nutritionally better than conventionally-produced food
... nutrient content. Differences that were detected were most likely to be due to differences in fertilizer use (nitrogen, phosphorus), and ripeness at harvest (acidity), and it is unlikely that consuming these nutrients at the levels reported in organic foods would provide any health benefit. Alan Dangour...Researchers team up to provide new hope for childhood hunger
... world today announced the formation of the Global harvest Alliance (GHA), a humanitarian effort involving St...ter's cassava team, the full vision for the Global harvest Alliance began to take shape. "Effective solution...st severely malnourished children. The new Global harvest Alliance promises to accelerate the advances which...Early rice harvests ease annual famine in Bangladesh
...re benefiting from research that allows farmers to harvest rice earlier, giving them more time to grow a seco... previous season's food has run out and before the harvest of transplanted rice in December. According to...ting a shorter-duration rice variety can bring the harvest forward 25-40 days," said Dr. David Johnson, IRRI ...Wood stoves -- a viable home heat source?
... released by the combustion is negligible, the only surplus coming from the harvest and transport. Based on an average growing time of 130 years before harvest for local Ontario tree species, a woodlot or forest 3.5 hectares in size wo...NOAA bans commercial harvesting of krill
...er the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. The krill harvest prohibition was originally proposed to the PFMC and NOAA Fisheries Service ... Amendment 12 adds all species of krill under a new category, "prohibited harvest species." This new group may not be caught or taken by any fishery or gear...BASF Podcast - Better Harvest in Spite of Climate Stress
LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In this Podcast you will learn about how plant biotechnology can help to make crops more tolerant against climate stress. Climatic conditions such as heat or cold and rain or drought can determine whether a harvest turns out well or badly. Beca...Carrington and Universal Harvest Sign Supply Agreement
- One-year Agreement With Guaranteed Purchase Minimums - Carrington Provides Product Development, Manufacturing and Global Distribution IRVING, Texas, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Carrington Laboratories, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CARN) announced tod...Fiber-based nanotechnology in clothing could harvest energy from physical movement
Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a power shirt able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others whose physical motion could be harnessed and converted to electrical energy. The February ...Fake e-mails and Web sites harvest your identity
WTN's Mike Klein gives you the scoop on some of the ways Internet con artists may try to steal your personal and business information through fraudulent e-mails and Web sites. Be on the alert these fakes may look very real. A Madison-based company, NameProtect, has identified e-mails that look lik...Sugarcane as a Key Element Against Global Warming to be Highlighted at Green Week in Brussels
...of sugar and ethanol in the country's South-Central region, especially the state of Sao Paulo, which accounts for about 50% of the country's sugarcane harvest and 60% of total ethanol production. UNICA develops position papers, statistics and specific research in support of Brazil's sugar, ethanol and bioele...President Bill Clinton to Speak at the Ethanol Summit in Brazil
...of sugar and ethanol in the country's South-Central region, especially the state of Sao Paulo, which accounts for about 50% of the country's sugarcane harvest and 60% of total ethanol production. UNICA develops position papers, statistics and specific research in support of Brazil's sugar, ethanol and bioele...Sugarcane Ethanol Industry Eager to Implement U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard
...of sugar and ethanol in the country's South-Central region, especially the state of Sao Paulo, which accounts for about 50% of the country's sugarcane harvest and 60% of total ethanol production. UNICA develops position papers, statistics and specific research in support of Brazil's sugar, ethanol and bioele...Mach One BioPharm Process Operating Group Receives Contract From American Beef Processors
...ef of any lean content grade such as 50's (50% lean), 65's 73's, 75's, 85's and even 90's- which comprises the majority of the 10 billion pound annual harvest of boneless beef by the US beef industry for sale to US consumers. The extracted "fat stream" is extracted as a food grade item but can be used as a ...siPORTer™-96 Electroporation Chamber from Ambion
Description:...cient delivery of siRNA while maintaining high cell viability Electroporate up to 96 samples simultaneously Fast: less than one hour from cell harvest to post-electroporation incubation Highly reproducible results from well-to-well Designed for use with the Bio-Rad Gene Pulser Xcell System ...CORNING CELLBIND CULTURE FLASK, 25CM2, CANTED NECK, VENT CAP, STERILE from Sigma-Aldrich
Description:...alternative to expensive and unstable biological coatings. • Both enzymatic and non-enzymatic dissociating solutions have been used to remove and harvest cells from CellBIND surfaces, scraping is not recommended due to the increased strength of cell attachment. • CellSTACK chambers are ideal for ce...CORNING CELLSTACK CULTURE CHAMBER WITH CELLBIND, 5 STACK from Sigma-Aldrich
Description:... conditions, including reduced serum or serum-free medium. • Both enzymatic and non-enzymatic dissociating solutions have been used to remove and harvest cells from CellBIND surfaces, scraping is not recommended due to the increased strength of cell attachment. • CellSTACK chambers are ideal for ce...CORNING CELLBIND CULTURE FLASK, 175CM2, ANGLED NECK, VENT CAP, STERILE from Sigma-Aldrich
Description:...alternative to expensive and unstable biological coatings. • Both enzymatic and non-enzymatic dissociating solutions have been used to remove and harvest cells from CellBIND surfaces, scraping is not recommended due to the increased strength of cell attachment. • CellSTACK chambers are ideal for ce...CORNING CELLBIND CULTURE FLASK, 175CM2, ANGLED NECK, PHENOLIC-STYLE CAP, STERILE from Sigma-Aldrich
Description:...alternative to expensive and unstable biological coatings. • Both enzymatic and non-enzymatic dissociating solutions have been used to remove and harvest cells from CellBIND surfaces, scraping is not recommended due to the increased strength of cell attachment. • CellSTACK chambers are ideal for ce...GEA Diessel Fermentation System from Niro Inc.
Description:...ure Compliance and Standards *ASME BPE *cGMP *GAMP *ISA S-88 *pressure regulation in exhaust air pipe *nutrient medium addition *product harvest *sterilization of the nutrient medium high purity steam sterilization latest visualization and interface for easy operation ...MicroBeta Filtermat-96 Harvester from PerkinElmer
Description:...radation, trichloroacetic acid preparations and cytotoxicity assays. FilterMate harvests 24 or 96 samples simultaneously, so it takes only minutes to harvest and wash samples from shallow- or deep-well microplates onto plain filtermats or into the UniFilter integrated filtermicroplates. FilterMate can be ad...