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BioScience News Daily Highlights - December 16
Daily Highlights
1. Stanching the EU 'brain drain'
2. Govt commits to preserving Lake Taupo
3.
Trans-Tasman partnership to benefit wheat growers
4.
Indian Govt says Bt cotton safe
5. EU to review Kyoto
strategy
6. Biotech benefits US economy, education & job
opportunities
Stanching the EU 'brain drain'
EU
proposals to restrict travel by scientists by issuing
special visas may have some unintended consequences.Charles
q. Choi of The Scientist writes that to attract researchers
to Europe and keep ...
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Govt
commits to preserving Lake Taupo
Environment Minister
Marian Hobbs has announced a significant government
commitment to preserving Lake Taupo for the future.The
government is committing up to $36.7 million to a joint fund
to redu...
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Trans-Tasman
partnership to benefit wheat growers
The development of
higher yielding wheat cultivars to meet the New Zealand
demand for high quality flours for bread and pastry will
result from a new joint venture signed this week between New
Zealand...
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Indian
Govt says Bt cotton safe
In New Delhi the Government has
given a clean chit to BT cotton after trials indicated that
it does not have any harmful effect on environment and
animal health. "Trials conducted by ICAR and
...
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EU
to review Kyoto strategy
The European Union must review
its strategy of backing the Kyoto Protocol on global warming
as Russian hesitations over the accord have put its
implementation under doubt, the bloc's top energy
offici...
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Biotech
benefits US economy, education & job opportunities
Plant
biotechnology is helping to create a vibrant knowledge-based
economy throughout the United States, according to a study
by a University of Minnesota professor. "The vast stock of
plant br...
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