All Africa (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Prof. Bamidele Solomon, Director-General of National Bio-technology Development Agency (NABDA), said yesterday that biotechnology had the potential to address poverty and food security in developing countries.
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Namos GmbH,, a company developing surface solutions based on bio-nanotechnology, will receive up to €1 million (US$1.36 million) from the ERP Start Fund, a joint program of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), the German government-owned development bank, and the German...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Company Also Releases Latest Generation of Mobile Data Software WALL, N.J., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification and wireless public safety, announced today $245,000 in additional new public safety software and related services orders that closed at the end of the third quarter of 2008. Approximately...
Pen Drive Linux (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
How to Access BIOS. Computer and motherboard manufacturers and BIOS suppliers may use varying keyboard keys or key combinations that can be pressed during system post to access your system BIOS. Unfortunately there is no standard method to universally access or enter a motherboard BIOS. The following is a list of some popular BIOS suppliers, [...]
Citizen News Service (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
World Food Day (16 October) World food scarcity and the challenges of climate change and bio energy Shobha Shukla ‘Rarely has the World Food Day assumed greater meaning than in present times, as rapidly rising food prices risk increasing the number of hungry in the world,’ according to t he Food And Agriculture Organization (FAO). FAO was founded in 1945 on the 16th of October - a day which is observed...
TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The debate as to whether biofuels are a viable environmental alternative is likely to rage for some time yet. However, according to BP, one thing is certain - our reliance on this alternative fuel is likely to increase in the future. BP assessments suggest that biofuels could account for between 11 and 19 per cent of [...]
TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
The stumbling block to going green has often been the lack of refuelling infrastructure in place - but now drivers along one American interstate have no excuse not to fill up with biofuel. Interstate 65, which stretches from Gary, Indiana, to Mobile, Alabama, now has E85 ethanol and B20 biodiesel available along its entire 886 mile [...]
Engadget HD (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Satellite , New content Life and crime go together kind of like life and taxes, so it's fitting that The History Channel UK is bringing out HD versions of the Biography Channel and The Crime and Investigation Network to Sky's lineup. Between Bio's pledge to get serious about HD and the worldwide party that History is throwing, this gives Brits something to cheer about. If things go smoothly...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The Bombay High Court has cracked the whip on the BMC and the MPCB in response to a writ petition filed by an NGO that bio-medical waste was not being properly disposed off in the city.
TechSpot (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bio fules made out of Sugarcane, corn , switch grass, wood residue , soya bean , algae etc are alternate source of petrol which can be used but are they areally healthy and what are limitations when comapred to technology availble to produce them or use them. Here is snapshot which talks about it. You can [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
NEW DELHI: The State of Food and Agriculture Report, 2008 of the Food and Agriculture Organisation has called for an urgent review of the biofuel policies and subsidies to preserve the goal of world food security, protect poor farmers, ...
Exit Zero (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Gas2 "digs into the viscous world of biofuels and the fast-paced transit arena, exploring the technologies and substances that will power our transportation future."...
butner blogspot (Free subscription) | yesterday
... affected by these controls,” he said. But some experts say the idea of using vaccines for bioweapons is far-fetched, and that in a health emergency, it is unclear how quickly authorities could cut through the current red tape to get the vaccines distributed. Under normal circumstances it would take at least six weeks to approve export licenses for any vaccine on the list, said Thomas Monath,...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
JAKARTA, Indonesia - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.
