US panel rejects Roche's Avastin for breast cancer
A US advisory panel dealt a blow to Roche Holding AG's multibillion-dollar cancer drug Avastin recently, urging US officials to revoke the medicine's approval for breast cancerIf regulators follow that advice, the Swiss drugmaker could no longer promote Avastin for that use in the US.
Doctors still could prescribe Avastin for breast cancer as it would retain approv...
Scientists create improved CO2-absorbing crystals
Chemists in South Korea and the US have improved the design of a type of artificial crystal, doubling the amount of carbon dioxide they can absorb and storeCalled metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the metallic crystals are porous, stable structures that can absorb and compress gases into very small spaces.
Scientists are hoping such materials can...
Britons fret as meat from cloned cow offspring eaten
04/08/2010
Britain's food watchdog said it had found that meat from the offspring of a cloned cow had entered the UK food chain and had been eaten, stirring controversy over whether such prod...
WHO criticises big divide in tackling HIV in Europe
21/07/2010
Huge disparities between Western and Eastern Europe in tackling the AIDS virus mean the HIV crisis in the region is far from over, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced...
The new green world north of Stockholm
16/07/2010
With its harsh winters, Sweden has long been a model for energy-saving technologies. But now the little-known and remote far north of the country is leading the way in exporting it...
Africa heralds biofuel pipeline
07/06/2010 | Michael Dynes
Of the billions of dollars that have been ploughed into the biofuel sector around the world over the past decade, only a tiny fraction has ever found its way to Africa. That is now...
Study finds Eisai's breast cancer drug extends lives
07/06/2010
An experimental breast cancer drug made from sea sponges added months to the lives of breast cancer patients whose cancer had come back despite several rounds of chemotherapy, doct...
Are US regulators dropping the ball on biocrops?
12/05/2010
Robert Kremer, a US government microbiologist who studies Midwestern farm soil, has spent two decades analysing the rich dirt that yields billions of bushels of food each year and ...
Report: NASA'S outdated labs jeopardise research
12/05/2010
Many of NASA's research labs are old, and budget cuts have seriously jeopardised scientific research at the space agency, according to a National Research Council report...
Top 10: Conservation Successes And Failures
18/03/2010
John Pickrell looks at some of the inspiring success stories and sobering failures in the battle to preserve the world's most endangered species...
The New New Urbanism
18/03/2010 | Greg Lindsay
The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies c...
Huge hydroelectric dam approved in Brazil's Amazon
02/02/2010
Brazil granted an environmental license on Monday for the construction of a controversial hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rainforest....
Necessity is the mother of invention
21/12/2009
In the Gulf of Mexico, one oil platform sits alone – further out to sea and in water depths never before ventured. Getting it there has been a feat of engineering and technical inn...
Cleared for take-off
21/05/2009 | Alison Chambers
Some 10,000 commercial aircraft take off and land each day with help from ARINC, writes Alison Chambers...
Paul Moller on the Skycar
28/01/2009 | TED
Paul Moller gives his ideas on the how we might abandon road based transportation and take to personal air travel...
Integrating presence
18/11/2008 | Julia White
Unified Communications (UC) is not a product but an intelligent and time-efficient use of technologies to enable ways of working that improve customer service, reduce transaction c...
Breeding better food
28/11/2008 | Howard Bouis
Howarth Bouis, Director of HarvestPlus, believes that for nutrition and health to improve in poor countries, agriculture has to do more than alleviate hunger - it has to make food ...
Areas for innovation
28/03/2008 | Mark Justman
Innovation in biofuels could increase the shift of global fuel supplies away from fossil-fuel resources...
Afghanistan and America's troubled backyard
09/08/2010 | Bernd Debusmann
The US is spending around $6.5bn a month on the war in faraway Afghanistan, where a large part of it...
Is immigration a desert mirage for the GOP?
27/07/2010
US Republican state Senator Russell Pearce, a long-time fixture in Arizona politics but until recent...
UN lists Kyoto plan B options if no climate deal
21/07/2010
The UN's climate agency has for the first time detailed contingency options if the world cannot agre...
Legalising pot may kill buzz in California enclave
19/07/2010 | Alexandria Sage
Below the perpetual fog that shrouds the redwood groves, green hills and rocky coastline of remote H...
