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Feeding the world in 2050

With plenty of food why do 1 billion people still go hungry or are malnourished? By 2050 we will have another 3 billion people. What is sustainable intensification and where does science fit into this picture?

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Who owns a dead women’s eggs

Conflicting results in ag-biotech survey for women farmers

Brad Pitt and the ethics of induced pluripotent stem cells

Natural bias and proof that science is broken

Teachers – cool nano vids, podcasts

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Multifunctional Nanoparticle Enables New Type of Biological Imaging

A new imaging technique may make it possible to spot a single cancerous cell that has broken free from a tumor.

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US investigators say DNA tests give bogus results

A US government investigator told members of Congress on Thursday that personalized DNA tests claiming to predict certain inheritable diseases are misleading and offer little or no useful information.

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Technique for arsenic-free water developed

A novel approach to arsenic removal could lead to a quick and inexpensive purification of drinking water in developing countries.

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$122 million sunlight-to-fuel effort

the us Department of Energy is putting up $122 million to help humans capture the energy of the sun and create renewable liquid fuels through “artificial photosynthesis.”

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Dissolvable, needle-free Nanopatch delivers vaccine

University of QLD: research has found the Nanopatch – a needle-free method of vaccine delivery – is now dissolvable, confirming it is a potentially safer, cheaper alternative to needles.

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