News articles tagged with 'cotton'
Gene transfer from transgenic crops: A more realistic picture
— 1 Dec 2010 17:58 | HealthA new data-driven statistical model that incorporates the surrounding landscape in unprecedented detail describes the transfer of an inserted bacterial gene via pollen and seed dispersal…
Biofuels production has unintended consequences on water quality and quantity in Mississippi
— 30 Nov 2010 21:57 | EnvironmentGrowing corn for biofuels production is having unintended effects on water quality and quantity in northwestern Mississippi…
New insect birth control strategy zaps cotton pests
— 7 Nov 2010 18:49 | BiologyUsing pests as part of an insect birth control program helps to get rid of them, UA researchers find. A new approach that combines the planting of pest-resistant cotton and releasing…
Unique Henry Ford case offers cautionary cotton swab tale
— 29 Sep 2010 16:23 | HealthThe old saying, 'never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear,' couldn't be truer for a patient who experienced vertigo and severe hearing loss after a cotton swab perforated…
High-speed filter uses electrified nanostructures to purify water at low cost
— 1 Sep 2010 10:53 | TechnologyBy dipping plain cotton cloth in a high-tech broth full of silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes, Stanford researchers have developed a new high-speed, low-cost filter that could easily…
Rescue and relief the current priority for WWF-Pakistan
— 28 Aug 2010 10:13 | EnvironmentRescue and relief is the current priority for WWF-Pakistan in the numerous communities it works with in the flood ravaged Indus basin…
GM crop produces massive gains for women's employment in India
— 29 Jul 2010 10:28 | HealthResearch at the UK's University of Warwick, and the University of Goettingen in Germany, has found that the use of a particular GM crop in India produced massive benefits in the earnings…
How long is a piece of thread? Long enough to save a life
— 16 Mar 2010 01:55 | HealthA discovery by Monash University scientists could see humble cotton thread emerge as a core material in low-cost 'lab-on-chip' devices capable of detecting diseases such as kidney failure…
Better cotton threading its way towards global markets
— 9 Jul 2009 12:18 | EnvironmentThe first batch of sustainable cotton - to be produced with a fraction of the water and pesticide use of traditional cotton cultivation - is expected to reach global markets starting…
Modern irrigation techniques could save Turkey's water
— 22 Mar 2009 17:40 | EnvironmentWith less than one tenth of Turkey's irrigable land under modern irrigation techniques vast potentials for water saving exist in agriculture, user of nearly three quarters of the nation's…