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Science & Policy News
January 2006
New York Times, January 29, 2006 Why Revive a Deadly Flu Virus?: Scientists want to know what made the 1918 flu, which began as a virus native to wild birds, mutate into a form that could pass easily from one human to another. Read
more Nanotechnology will be focus of ASU forum: With nanotechnology expected to become a $1 trillion industry by 2015, Arizona State University will open a center to study the societal impacts of the burgeoning interest in the miniscule. Read
more Keeping tabs on Viagra et al: Pfizer, producer of Viagra, and Purdue Pharma, the privately-held producer of OxyContin, have launched pilot programs tagging these drugs with Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, technology. Read
more FDA wants to ban some inhalers: Millions of nonprescription inhalers used for decades by asthma sufferers, often against the advice of doctors, could be taken off drugstore shelves because they contain propellants that harm the ozone layer. Read
more Cheese maker has the blues: Man affected by recall opposes FDA stance on milk. Read
more Logging article in Science stirs debate: A group of professors at Oregon State's College of Forestry unsuccessfully tried to get the prestigious journal Science to hold off on publishing a study that concluded that leaving forests alone is the best way to help them recover from wildfires. Read
more Hold Scientists Accountable: Stem cell research should go forward, but we can't entrust its leadership to the scientists and business interests now running the show. We need laws and treaties allowing stem cell research to proceed at a reasonable pace, subject to clearly demarcated ethical limits. Read
more Quietly, Hawaii serves as world's biotech lab: So it goes in the Aloha State, where genetic engineering has riven a state just now awakening to the fact that balmy and remote Hawaii has, for better and worse, long served as the world's largest outdoor biotechnology lab. Read
more Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs: Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that "glow in the dark". Read
more Doomsday vault to avert world famine: A vault is being built to hold around 2 million seeds, representing all known varieties of the world's crops. It is being built to safeguard the world's food supply against nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels, earthquakes and the ensuing collapse of electricity supplies. Read
more Pregnant driver loses debate over HOV lane: A ticket for driving alone in an HOV lane did more than send Candace Dickinson to court. The citation also ignited the debate about when a life begins.
Dogs as good as screening for cancer detection: Dogs do as well as state-of-the-art screening tests at sniffing out people with lung or breast cancer. The research raises the possibility that trained dogs could detect cancers even earlier and might some day supplement or even replace mammograms and CT scans.
Greenwire, January 9, 2006
Nanotech
Field should avoid biotech-style backlash, media analysts say: There's
a cloud hanging over nanotechnology. On paper, the field's prospects
seem bright... Read
more Science Daily, January 6, 2006 New Technology Enhances MRI Capabilities: Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix have developed a more accurate MRI method.
Science Daily, January 6, 2006 Correlation Between Alzheimer's and Myelin Found: A new imaging study reveals a correlation between age related myelin breakdown and Alzheimer's disease.
NewScientist.com, January 5, 2006 The lie detector you'll never know is there: The US Department of Defense has revealed plans to develop a lie detector that can be used without the subject knowing they are being assessed.
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