(Donald Danforth Plant Science Center) The Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21) will hold its second scientific conference June 18-22, 2012, at the Speke Resort Conference Center in Kampala, Uganda.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Alain Labrique, PhD, director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, ...

The innovative research of three Northwestern University professors who are making a big difference in the highly promising area of synthetic biology has been recognized with two early-stage discovery awards from Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The global health ...

(Northwestern University) The innovative research of three Northwestern University professors who are making a big difference in the highly promising area of synthetic biology has been recognized with two early-stage discovery awards from Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The global health projects ...

(Nanyang Technological University) About 200 leading minds from Asia, Europe and across the globe are converging at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University this week to exchange ideas for advancing research in computer animation, social robots and virtual humans. The 25th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents signals a shift ...

(Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) Students, world-class professors and researchers from the fields of clinical rehabilitation and biomedical engineering will convene September 16-21, 2012, in Zaragoza, Spain, for the 2012 Summer School of Neurorehabilitation. The congress gives participants the possibility to discuss, promote and encourage this global shift in therapy.

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Planck researchers found over 2500 mRNA along dendrites and axons.

(National Academy of Sciences) National science academies from 15 countries issued joint statements today calling on world leaders who are about to meet at the upcoming G8 Summit and other international gatherings this year to give greater consideration to the vital role science and technology could play in addressing some ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu ) The Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside announced today (May 9) that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Hideaki Tsutsui, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, will pursue an innovative global ...

Bloomberg Markets magazine in its June issue examines microbes that incorporate the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1, or NDM-1, gene, making them resistant to nearly all available antibiotics.

Severe droughts, floods, and storms are now a routine part of our nation's weather forecast. Remarkably hot and dry weather in 2011 caused droughts in Texas, the Plains states and the West. The year also brought historic flooding along the Mississippi River. In the Northeast, an unusually warm winter meant ...

Preterm babies are born at a higher rate in the United States than in 130 other countries of the world, including many poorer nations, according to the just-released report 'Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth.' The report, containing the first-ever estimates of preterm birth rates by ...