Aussie, UK Scientists Claim Pest Control Breakthrough
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Australian and British scientists have achieved a technical breakthrough to help control insects that have developed resistance to common agricultural pesticides, the New South Wales state government said on Thursday.
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Experts have deciphered the complete DNA sequence for one of the most infectious bugs known to man.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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Scientists find what appears to be a cure for the disease that is wiping out many of the world's frog species.
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Australian scientists have developed a new vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) with the new hope to prevent the spread of the disease. Researchers with Sydney&#39;s Royal Prince Alfred
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British scientists have taken tips from Mother Nature to develop a new technology that could deliver cheaper, life-saving vaccines without refrigeration to millions of children in remote areas of the world.
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Genetically-modified sugar beet can be grown in a way that helps wildlife, UK researchers say.
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The threat from biological weapons has outstripped that of chemical and nuclear weapons because of advances in biotechnology, the respected British Medical Association (BMA) warned in a report published.
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In the first trial of its kind, Austrian researchers have achieved success with an allergy vaccine using genetically engineered pollen. The findings are reported in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia announced yesterday that
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A discovery about how the virus which causes diarrhoea invades cells could help vaccine development, say scientists.
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Scientists have discovered a promising new method to fight a range of diseases by boosting the body's natural defenses against viruses.
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An international team of scientists has created artificial roaches in order to study "collective intelligence."
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mouse,...
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Gene therapies could one day offer relief from allergies such as hayfever, claim UK and Swiss scientists.
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Australian scientists who helped discover a species of tiny humans nicknamed Hobbits have been hailed for making the second most important scientific achievement of 2004.
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Scientists in Britain have figured out how insects fly, bringing bee-sized surveillance aircraft a step closer to reality.