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In food crisis, Mexican valley offers lessons (AG Weekly)
EDITOR’S NOTE -The U.N. says the number of undernourished people worldwide is climbing toward 1 billion as high food prices squeeze the poorest. This report, first in a periodic five-part series on the future of food, looks at the prospects for science to ignite a new “green revolution.”
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How To Fight Super Pests? Build Superbugs. (Forbes)
USDA paves way for growing predators in the lab to fight threats to agriculture.
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Teaching the Body to Fix Itself (BusinessWeek)
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SciClone Secures $6 Million in Debt Financing From Silicon Valley Bank (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that Silicon Valley Bank will provide the company's operating subsidiaries a $6,000,000 debt financing. The Bank Line will be used to provide additional working capital to support SciClone's growth.
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Canadian and Brazilian synchrotrons sign agreement (EurekAlert!)
( Canadian Light Source, Inc. ) Developing innovative, state-of-the-art synchrotron instrumentation is the purpose of an agreement signed today between the Canadian Light Source and the Brazilian Association of Synchrotron Light Technology, operator of the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory.
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'Frankenstein' crops could be grown in secret to halt GM trial sabotage (Daily Mail)
GM crop trials should be carried out in secret or behind security fences in a bid to prevent saboteurs from ripping them out of the ground, it is claimed.
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FDLI Names 2009 Distinguished Service and Leadership Award Recipients (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Buc, Levitt, Lumpkin and Miller Garner Prestigious Awards
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Plants Can Accumulate Nanoparticles In Tissues (Science Daily)
Plants can take up nanoparticles and accumulate them in their tissues, according to new research. The laboratory study, which involved pumpkin plants, indicates a possible pathway for nanoparticles to enter the food chain. The research also reveals a new experimental approach for studying nanoparticles and their potential impacts.
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FDA Support of Heart Device Would Fly in Face of Sound Science (Public Citizen)
WASHINGTON, D.C. –A new clinical trial of a cardiac device that Food and Drug Administration advisory panels already have rejected is unlikely to yield convincing data, Public Citizen said in a letter sent today to the director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
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Okla. researchers receive $15M grant to pursue alternative fuels (The Oklahoma Daily)
The National Science Foundation has given a $15 million grant to Oklahoma scientists to develop efficient alternative fuels.
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