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United Kingdom: Can our trees be saved from big timber, rampant disease and global warming?
2014-03-09 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: We have finally finished tidying up all the trees and branches thrown down by the furious winter winds in Court Wood. It's an 11-acre, mixed broad-leaf woodland near my home in the Black Mountains, south Wales. As part of a not-for-profit, community woodland group, I started managing the wood a few months ago. Before our small team of volunteers arrived with billhooks and chainsaws, Court Wood hadn't been touched for 60 years. Like thousands of similarly anonymous British woodlands, it had silently...
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2-year-old battles rare disease
2014-03-08 07:49:24| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
An Omaha boy is one of only 2,000 in the world with a rare disorder called Hunter syndrome, and with little research available, his family is leading the charge to find out what might stop it.
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Eisai And Biogen Idec Enter Collaboration To Develop And Commercialize Alzheimer's Disease Treatments
2014-03-05 05:29:31| drugdiscoveryonline News Articles
Eisai Co., Ltd. and Biogen Idec recently announced that they have entered into a collaboration to develop and commercialize two of Eisai’s clinical candidates for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), E2609 and BAN2401
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Climate Change May Lead to Greater Severity in Wheat Crop Disease
2014-02-26 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Climate change may lead to an increased risk in severity of wheat crop diseases in the next two decades, according to a new study. Scientists from University of Hertfordshire led the research, which was conducted in China to establish whether there is a link between weather and the severity of epidemics of fusarium ear blight on the wheat crops there. When epidemics of fusarium ear blight are big enough, upwards of 60 percent of a wheat crop can be lost to the disease. The blight also produces...
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RNAi tactic to fight disease offers new hope
2014-02-24 10:02:43| Biotech - Topix.net
From left: Phillip D. Zamore is codirector of the RNA Therapeutics Institute. Craig Mello and another scientist won a Nobel Prize for RNAi work.
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