Look Inside >> May 25, 2009 Check out this article. The NIH is to find solutions for orphan diseases (possibly schistomiasis, among others) with its Therapeutics for Rare & Neglected Disease (TRND) effort. This kind of program is all too rare. Apparently, when drugs are discovered, they will be handed over to private companies for …
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Lisa Jarvis, at C&EN‘s Northeast News Bureau has a nice two-page article on the revival of a World War II-era anti-malarial research project at Rutgers. It’s a good read.Chemical & Engineering News Digital Edition – May 25, 2009 Related articles by Zemanta Green tea extract shows promise in leukemia trials (scienceblog.com) Biotech Companies And Cloud …
This is from Erika Power. Even if you can’t go yourself, you can always send a check or click the Jazz for Peace picture and donate in support. Please remember to promote this event to others whom you know, encouraging them to promote it to others whom they know, etc., etc., etc. The Power is …
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Cheryl Hogue, a senior editor at C&EN, published the following note (Chemical & Engineering News Digital Edition – May 18, 2009): PERSISTANT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS: Treaty now includes PFOS and brominated flame retardants. Nine chemicals, including the widely used chemicals in perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and brominated flame retardants, have been added to the Stockholm Convention on …
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Image via Wikipedia Image via WikipediaAccording to ABC News, yesterday, throughout the Congo children are being accused of practicing witchcraft (click the title to see the news video). To me, as a parent and as a former court appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children, this is serious child abuse which leads to the …
Image via Wikipedia Dr. Arlene Blum (Executive Director, Green Science Policy Institute) provided this report from the 11th Annual Workshop on Brominated Flame Retardants. This is a topic that that deserves more of our attention than it currently gets. Dear All, I am just back from an informative and fun Brominated Flame Retardant meeting in …
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Image via Wikipedia This is a great segment from the NewsHour on PBS. I recommend both the Streaming Video segment (8 minutes) and the two related links which include a slide show with commentary (3 minutes). Some 90,000 people died in this earthquake, and countless others remain in cramped, makeshift conditions as reconstruction progresses. Check …
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Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) is excellent the weekly glossy news magazine of the American Chemical Society, the largest scientific society in the world. Rudy Baum, the editor-in-chief, is outspoken on many issues that affect all of us broadly, not just the chemical enterprise. His recent editorial, Living With Limits, elicited the following Catastrophe Awaits …
Jean-Francois Tremblay, C&EN Hong Kong (Chemical & Engineering News Digital Edition – May 11, 2009) writes: “In this highly populated, rapidly industrializing country, water purification is becoming big business. ……. Between 200 million and 300 million people throughout the Chinese Countryside do not have access to a safe source of water.” In this picture, do-it-yourself …
There’s an interesting dialog on taxing carbon between Kevin Drum at Mother Jones and Jeffrey Sachs (Sachs is, among other things, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time). You can read the latest episode here: Taxing Carbon – Part 4 | Mother …