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Geneva experiment station helps N.Y. fight plum pox virus
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Jul 22, 2008 |
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When two plum trees and one peach tree in Niagara County, N.Y., tested positive for the plum pox virus (PPV) in 2006, a team dedicated to eradicating the virus sprang into action and within months turned to ...
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Native fruits bear sweet antioxidants
Aug 02, 2007 |
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Twelve native Australian fruits that are exceptional sources of antioxidants have been identified in research published in the journal Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies.
Childhood chicken pox could affect oral health years later
Feb 18, 2009 |
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You may recall as a child catching the itchy red rash, chicken pox. The unsightly infection was caused by the varicella zoster virus and was responsible for nearly 4 million cases each year, according to the Centers for Disease ...
Plums Poised to Give Blueberries Run for the Money
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Jan 28, 2009 |
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There's an emerging star in the super-food world. Plums are rolling down the food fashion runway sporting newly discovered high levels of healthy nutrients, say scientists at Texas AgriLife Research.
Foot-and-mouth lab looks for new home
Nov 12, 2007 |
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Five U.S. states are vying for a $500 million federal research center that would house highly infectious animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth.
Outfoxing pox: Developing a new class of vaccine candidates
Oct 15, 2009 |
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In the annals of medicine, Edward Jenner's 1796 vaccination of a young boy against smallpox, using fluid from cowpox blisters, remains a landmark case. In a new study, Kathryn Sykes, a researcher at Arizona ...
World's Largest Vacuum Chamber to Test Orion
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 20, 2007 |
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Before NASA's new spacecraft, Orion, carries the next generation of explorers into space, it first will make a shorter journey to the world's largest vacuum chamber. In this massive, cathedral-like structure, ...
Pointing a finger at the source of fecal bacteria
May 23, 2007 |
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Excessive levels of fecal bacteria were to blame for almost 60 percent of Nebraska streams deemed impaired by federal and state environmental laws in 2004. In order to develop effective pollution-control strategies, ...
Jeepers creepers: Climate change threatens endangered honeycreepers
May 26, 2009 |
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As climate change causes temperatures to increase in Hawaii's mountains, deadly non-native bird diseases will likely also creep up the mountains, invading most of the last disease-free refuges for honeycreepers - a group ...
NASA awards $46 million safety contract
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Oct 30, 2007 |
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U.S. space agency officials have awarded an environmental management and safety support contract to the Science Applications International Corp.
Short list announced for $500M lab
Jul 13, 2007 |
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Sites in Kansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and North Carolina are being considered as the possible site of a $500 million U.S. Homeland Security research lab.
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