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October 24, 2016

Tobacco plants engineered to manufacture high yields of malaria drug
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2016
In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in part for the discovery of artemisinin, a plant-derived compound that's proven to be a lifesaver in treating malaria. Yet many people who need the drug are not able to access it, in part because it's difficult to grow the plant that is the compound's source. Now, research has shown that tobacco plants can be engineered to manufacture the drug at therapeutic levels. The study appears October 20 in Molecular Plant. "Artemisinin t ... read more

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Research to help develop next-generation food crops Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) is helping to develop food crops with bigger yields and greater ability to cope with drought compared with today's plants. Crops such a ... more		Europeans and Africans have different immune systems, and neanderthals are partly to thank It's long been clear that people from different parts of the world differ in their susceptibility to developing infections as well as chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Now, two studies r ... more		Resilient 'risky-and-reliable' plant use strategy may have driven Neolithization in Jordan A resilient dietary strategy balancing reliable wetland plants and "riskier" seasonal grasses may have driven adoption of the sedentary lifestyle which later became typical of Neolithic humans, acco ... more
				Study finds earliest evidence in fossil record for right-handedness Perhaps the bias against left-handers dates back much further than we thought. By examining striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil, a new discovery led by a University of Kansas researcher has ... more		Receding glaciers in Bolivia leave communities at risk A new study published in The Cryosphere, an European Geosciences Union journal, has found that Bolivian glaciers shrunk by 43% between 1986 and 2014, and will continue to diminish if temperatures in ... more

How snakes lost a blueprint for making limbs Snakes lost their limbs over 100 million years ago, but scientists have struggled to identify the genetic changes involved. A Cell paper publishing October 20 sheds some light on the process, descri ... more		Extensive heat treatment in Middle Stone Age silcrete tool production in South Africa Humans living in South Africa in the Middle Stone Age may have used advanced heating techniques to produce silcrete blades, according to a study published October 19, 2016 in the open-access journal ... more		China emissions flat in third quarter as solar surges: study Conference travel emissions exceed research energy use Eyes turn to space to feed power-hungry data centers		Early fossil fish from China shows where our jaws came from Where did our jaws come from? The question is more complicated than it seems, because not all jaws are the same. In a new article, published in Science, palaeontologists from China and Sweden trace ... more
				Long-Serving DSCS Satellite Takes Over Role of Linking Antarctic Researchers to the World Nearly 21 years after its launch, a Lockheed Martin-built satellite within the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) recently turned its attention to a new mission-supporting the National S ... more		Ancient human history more complex than previously thought Relationships between the ancestors of modern humans and other archaic populations such as Neanderthals and Denisovans were likely more complex than previously thought, involving interbreeding withi ... more

6th Annual Modular Construction Summit for Oil and Gas Agenda - December 7-9 - Houston

Nuclear Plant Digitalization Conference - Nov 15-16 - Charlotte NC USA

Typhoon Haima batters Hong Kong as city in lockdown The usually frenetic streets of Hong Kong were deserted Friday as the city was battered by Typhoon Haima after the storm left a trail of deaths and damage in the Philippines. ... more		Typhoon survivors wait for aid in the Philippines Hungry Philippine typhoon survivors huddled in makeshift shelters and waited for aid on Friday, after losing nearly everything from one of the most powerful storms to hit the Southeast Asian archipelago. ... more		Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market 'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis		Hunting gastronomic gold in Italy's truffle country "It is not a job. It's a passion, a real sickness!" ... more
On road to Mosul, Kurd doctors fear being overwhelmed At a field hospital out in the open, a few kilometres (miles) from newly carved front lines in northern Iraq, Kurdish doctors and foreign soldiers mill around a stretcher on the ground. ... more		Whalers in crosshairs at international huddle More than 80 nations square off in Slovenia next week over the fate of the world's remaining whales, facing a multitude of perils from meat hunters and ship strikes to getting snared in fishing gear. ... more		5 dead as storm pounds hurricane-stricken Haiti Five people were killed and one person was missing as torrential rains sparked flooding in Haiti, as the country still reels from devastating Hurricane Matthew, the Civil Protection Agency said Friday. ... more		After the hurricane, cholera hits Haiti's suffering survivors The rains inundating their ruined homes are no longer the biggest concern of the long-suffering people of Randelle: cholera is tearing through the isolated Haitian mountain village at devastating speed. ... more

	Wealthy Australian families make counter-bid for cattle empire An all-Australian consortium comprising some of the country's richest grazier families made a counter-offer Sunday for one of the world's largest cattle estates, sparking a bidding war with a Chinese-linked proposal. ... more		Shabaab takes Somali town after Ethiopia troop pullout Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group said Sunday they had retaken control of a town in central Somalia after hundreds of Ethiopian troops serving with the African Union's AMISOM force withdrew. ... more

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Barrier Reef report card paints bleak picture

Plants actively direct their seeds via wind or water towards suitable sites

Future of Antarctic marine protected at risk

Small-scale agriculture threatens the rainforest

Plant discovered that neither photosynthesizes nor blooms

Adapting to the heat

Honduras alert over heavy rains

Super typhoon smashes northern Philippines

Haiti sees 800 new cholera cases after hurricane

A promising step toward controlling Zika virus and dengue fever

Algae discovery offers potential for sustainable biofuels

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