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| Are Viruses Alive? [Features] (Scientific American) |
| Editor's Note: This story was originally published in the December 2004 issue of Scientific American. In an episode of the classic 1950s television comedy The Honeymooners, Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden loudly explains to his wife, Alice, “You know that I know how easy you get the virus.” Half a century ago even regular folks like the Kramdens had some knowledge of viruses--as microscopic ... |
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| Greening of an Industry: Dow, NREL pursue nonfood biomass for fuels, chemicals (Modern Plastics) |
| Golden, CO—Rapid, global increases in food prices over the last year have focused intense scrutiny on using foodstuffs like corn for anything other than nourishment, in some cases stalling the development of biofuels and biochemicals, but now chemical and plastics giant Dow (Midland, MI), in coordination with the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL; Golden, CO), have announced a ... |
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| If Life Exists on Venus, Could it be Blown to Earth? (Universe Today) |
| We've heard about the possibility of extraterrestrial life arriving on Earth from another planet, asteroid or comet, but the mode of transport usually includes a chunk of rock falling through the atmosphere as a meteorite. But there could be another form of interplanetary transportation. What if there are microbial forms of alien life floating in [...] |
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| Kingston, Ontario, Canada July 21, 2008 (SeedQuest) |
| Performance Plants Inc. (“PPI”), a leading global agricultural biotechnology company with research and development facilities in Kingston, Ontario, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Waterloo, New York, announced today the completion of a $13 million equity financing. |
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