BioScience News and Advocate Daily Highlights 30/4
Daily Highlights
1. Animal fat fuel could power
buses
2. Poor children to suffer effects of
pollution
3. Moratoriums will not prevent GM
development
4. FDA sets regulatory sights on supplement
industry
5. Gene therapy trial shows early promise
Animal fat fuel could power buses
Auckland buses
could soon be powered by fuel made from animal fat, a
parliamentary committee was told yesterday. Energy
Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) chief executive
Heather Staley ...
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Poor
children to suffer effects of pollution
Poor and minority
children are likely to develop asthma at worsening rates due
to global warming and air pollution, environment experts
predicted today. They released a report showing that as
th...
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Moratoriums
will not prevent GM development
Moratoriums on the
commercial planting of GM canola in most states will not
necessarily prevent the development of other gene
technologies that have higher perceived benefits and fewer
perceived risks...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7495
FDA
sets regulatory sights on supplement industry
Shortly
after its final rule banning dietary supplements containing
ephedra took effect, the FDA has settled the cross hairs of
its regulatory sights firmly on the rest of the supplement
industry, say...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7484
Gene
therapy trial shows early promise
The first gene therapy
trial for Alzheimer's disease has delivered promising early
results.The trial was designed to test the safety of
injecting genetically modified cells directly into a part
of...
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