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BioScience News & Advocate Daily Highlights 2/3/04
Daily Highlights
1. Trash to fuel technology gaining
favour
2. MAF confident apple moth on the run
3.
Journals plan code of conduct
4. US cloning council
revamped
5. Bioinformatics launch boost for
research
6. Is biotechnology losing its nerve?
Trash to fuel technology gaining favour
Got garbage?
Toxic trash? Zap it with a torch three times hotter than the
sun and gather the resulting gas to fuel pollution-free cars
and home power units. It may seem like an idea out of a mad
s...
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MAF
confident apple moth on the run
The destructive painted
apple moth, which arrived in Auckland from Australia several
years ago, is on the run, say biosecurity officials. The
massive programme to eradicate the pest from Auckland
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Journals
plan code of conduct
Medical journals should have a code
of conduct, similar to that which governs newspapers, an
ethics body has said. A draft code has been set out by the
Committee on Publication Ethics. British
Me...
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US
cloning council revamped
United States' President George
W Bush has reshuffled his advisory council on cloning and
related medical issues, adding a prominent neurosurgeon
known for his work on conjoined twins and two
conserva...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=6503
Bioinformatics
launch boost for research
Agresearch, the Government's
biggest science company, has set up a centre to support the
use of computers in biotechnology, medical and ecological
research. The official launch today of the
Bioinf...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=6500
Is
biotechnology losing its nerve?
New York Times writer,
Andrew Pollack writes: As a founder of four biotechnology
companies, Dennis A. Carson can practically write an
encyclopedia entry on risk. After all, his first start-up, a
gene ...
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