I think that Pew poll really gave editorial boards the cover to come out with much better pieces
on plant science than they used to.
Not exact matches
U.S. rival DowDuPont is planning to break up into a Materials
Science division that relies
on in - house basic petrochemicals
plants and a Specialty Products unit selling more differentiated and complex materials.
The organization cited St. Louis» BioSTL bioscience economic development coalition — established in 2001 to build
on plant and life
science strengths — as a model for cities endeavoring to create economic growth through regional strengths.
«The other half of our core mission — our focus
on food technology — is represented by GFI's
science & technology department, which develops and promotes the
science of
plant - based and clean meat, dairy, and egg technologies.»
GFI's
science and technology department is involved in the development and promotion of the
science of
plant - based cultured meat, dairy, and egg technologies.33 They are currently focused
on core foundational work — making connections with organizations and writing white papers and «mind maps» — and as such they do not yet have a significant track record.34 They have produced Technological Readiness Assessments — documents detailing the current state of technology, and evaluating where more research is needed.35 All the research GFI does is published, so that the industry as a whole can benefit.36 One of their biggest successes over the last year are the presentations that Senior Scientist Liz Specht gave to various venture capitalist firms.
Could you open a
science book and give me the answer
on how mitochondria, the power
plant of the cell, came to exist?
And if they do, Rubio had better
plant his feet firmly
on the side of good
science and good sense or he's toast.
Several years ago, Victoria Fine Foods was focused
on modernizing its
plant and instilling quality controls to support its innovation efforts — implementing manufacturing as a
science.
Listening to speeches by
plant - based experts and reading up
on nutritional
science inspired us two years ago to start our own little food blog --
Bob started off teaching
science with the Peace Corps in Africa and went
on to research
plant diseases in South America, Asia, and the USA.
In the branch of this revolution devoted to rice, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and its collaborators in the Global Rice
Science Partnership (GRiSP)-- the CGIAR's Research Program
on Rice — are already tapping into other ongoing revolutions in genetics, molecular biology, and
plant physiology.
The National Academy of
Science and Technology Philippines deplores the disruption of the multilocational field experiment by anti-GMO elements who uprooted the month - old transplanted golden rice
plants in Pili, Camarines Sur
on 08 August 2013.
The people I met ranged from fellow students to senior researchers, and from people interested in agricultural
science, such as
plant breeding, to people working
on the social and economic aspects of agricultural development.
Rick was raised
on a vineyard in Northern California and graduated from UC Davis with a degree in
Plant Science — Viticulture & Pomology.
This covers research
on improvement of rainfed lowland and irrigated rice varieties,
plant pathology, entomology, soil
science, agronomy, and farming systems.
He has a Master's degree in
Plant Science and is experienced in extension, technology transfer and
on - farm research.
Kurt Schmidinger is a geophysicist and earned a doctorate in food
science in Vienna, focusing his dissertation
on «clean» (i.e., cultured) and
plant - based alternatives to animal products.
«The other half of our core mission — our focus
on food technology — is represented by GFI's
science & technology department, which develops and promotes the
science of
plant - based and clean meat, dairy, and egg technologies.»
Hundreds of new products, technology, machinery and equipment will be
on display at foodpro, covering all aspects of the production line including processing, packaging, ingredients,
plant equipment,
science & technology.
We've made a
plant growth model with LEGO and modelled the changing seasons over
on Science Sparks and today have a fun LEGO Tetris game to share.
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Even though the
science says that the amount of lead absorbed by
plants varies widely (spinach and sunflowers = leady, apple trees and tomatoes = not leady), and even though every study
on children who play in the dirt and eat homegrown food (my eight - year - old daughter included) has come back saying that there is no evidence of elevated bodily lead levels, people around here are petrified about growing their own vegetables, and even of letting their kids play in the mud.
In 1969, an outdoor classroom for
science study, The Nature Trail, was
planted by students and teachers
on the perimeter of the School's property.
Pick a book with «Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls», a book about women in
science or just a book with a female protagonist and
plant the seed of success early
on.
In the past we have enjoyed reading the book The Carrot Seed and had great fun creating with out — Stir of Wonder has been recently reading it and done some hands
on maths activities as well as a simple
science activity to learn with
plants.
EcoSMART's mission to create the world's safest, most effective pesticides based
on natural ingredients and was the first company to apply modern
science to essential
plant oils!
Westchester County Geographic Information Systems Mapper Westchester County's mapper lets users search by location within a specific theme (such as sewer district), or zoom in
on an area of interest and display map layers such as watershed boundaries, locations of septic tanks and wastewater treatment
plants, citizen
science sampling locations, and fish and wildlife habitats.
The European Academies
Science Advisory Council concurred, stating there «is no validated evidence that GM crops have greater adverse impact
on health and the environment than any other technology used in
plant breeding».
A 2014 report to the UK Council for
Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based
on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional
plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.
A $ 413,000 state grant helped pay for a green roof —
plants and soil that absorb rainwater —
on the Gateway Center at State University College of Environmental
Science and Forestry.
Nevertheless, Mr. Martilotta, a Greenport Middle School
science teacher, explained to the town Democratic committee that the village sewage treatment
plant is currently operating at about half its maximum capacity and could take
on additional sewage flow.
Through
Science in Asylum, Goidenko volunteered as a teacher in KinderUni, a summer science program for kids in Vienna, teaching them about different properties of soil and giving them hands - on experience with growing
Science in Asylum, Goidenko volunteered as a teacher in KinderUni, a summer
science program for kids in Vienna, teaching them about different properties of soil and giving them hands - on experience with growing
science program for kids in Vienna, teaching them about different properties of soil and giving them hands -
on experience with growing
plants.
Hamdi Alsaffouri, 34, a
plant geneticist from Syria who participated in the
Science in Asylum seminars, has written his paper based
on data from his doctoral thesis about cotton breeding.
And in
Plants: From roots to riches and a 25 - part BBC Radio 4 series, Kathy Willis, director of
science at the UK's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and writer Carolyn Fry flag up its contributions, taking us
on a stroll through Kew, pausing in its magnificent glasshouses to experience other climes and times.
Kornblihtt and his doctoral student Ezequiel Petrillo published a paper in
Science in April
on how light affects alternative splicing in
plants (E. Petrillo et al..
But the team found that the circles
on the neck contained burnt
plant material (Journal of Archaeological
Science, DOI: 10.1016 / j.jas.2010.07.026).
The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving
science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power
plants, the ban
on fetal research, a moratorium
on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls
on science; misconduct in
science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the
science and society relationship of today.
The National
Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life
sciences research that, based
on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other
plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».
The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from
plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.&r
plant science experts supporting the American Society of
Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.&r
Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement
on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»
The
plant - eating dinosaur used its flexible body to whip its barbed tail into the allosaurus's crotch during a fight, proposed paleontologist Robert Bakker of the Houston Museum of Natural
Science on October 21 at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.
«Ticks and the bacteria they carry are very opportunistic,» said George Poinar, Jr., a professor emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology of the OSU College of
Science, and one of the world's leading experts
on plant and animal life forms found preserved in amber.
The findings, published in the American Journal of
Science, indicate that although
plants were first detected
on land more than 440 million years ago there is only scant evidence of fire at that time.
Three species of non-photosynthetic
plants rely mainly
on camel crickets to disperse their seeds, according to new research from Project Associate Professor Suetsugu Kenji (Kobe University Graduate School of
Science).
Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri), a flowering
plant native to the Sonoran desert and southwest United States, has a laundry list of traits that make it a fierce competitor
on the farm, said Aaron Hager, a University of Illinois crop
sciences professor.
Cottone, a junior from Wilmington, Delaware, is working with Harsh Bais, associate professor of
plant and soil
sciences at UD,
on research to help this globally important grain cope with increasing stress.
On the basis of dubious experiments, Lysenko postulated that
plants could pass environmentally - acquired traits to their offspring, a theory discredited by modern
science, not least by the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953.
There's no word yet
on how they'll take their martinis, but a new subgenus of
plants has been named Jamesbondia, after the ornithologist namesake for the famed fictional spy,
Science Daily reports.
A paper recently published in Crop
Science examines connections between fructans in wheat
plants, wheat - based food products, and impacts of fructan consumption
on human health.
«The data will provide our first detailed look into the Joshua tree genome,» said Michael McKain, an evolutionary biologist working
on the project and a post-doctoral associate at the Donald Danforth
Plant Science Center.
The newly sequenced genome of the Amborella
plant will be published in the journal
Science on 20 December 2013.