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Farm surveys to probe sheep link

A nationwide survey in UK of 3,500 farms aimed at establishing whether bovine spongiform encephalopathy has spread to sheep is to be undertaken in the new

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Emisssions systems to be upgraded

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29/12/1997

Toyota Motor Corp. will install new emission control systems in engines for new model cars to be released starting at the end of 1997 and all on its models by the end of

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Gene sheds new light on old question

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29/12/1997

Makoto Kuroo and his group from the Institute of Neuroscience has discovered that mice suffer from human like symptoms of aging when a single specific gene is disrupted. Mice born without a

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Technique primes, then hits target cells

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29/12/1997

A group at Nippon Medical School report success with a two stage method of gene insertion, in which two vectors are used in succession to get the gene into the target cell with higher precision. The

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USAID climate change initiative

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29/12/1997

In June this year, President Clinton announced that the United States would provide at least $1 billion over the next five years to work with developing nations to reduce the threat of climate

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India's amateur 'doctors' ease pain of being poor

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29/12/1997

As the rural poor have streamed into India's great metropolis in recent years, the"indigenous practitioners" in the polite terminology of health experts or quacks in other words, have come along

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Stunned by floods, China bans logging - and creates economic woes

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29/12/1997

Stunned by devasting floods this summer along the Yangtze River, which experts said were intensified because slopes far upstream has been stripped bare, China has banned cutting of the old-growth

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Power Gen Asia'98 begins today

The largest electric power industry exhibition in Asia-Power Gen Asia'98 -will open in New Delhi. It will focus on changing trends and opportunities in the entire Asian power generation,

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Plans for toxic waste dump may be axed

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29/12/1997

Corporate giant CSR looks set to shelve its controversial plans to build a toxic waste dump in Werribee, Australia following lengthy discussions with the Wyndham City Council. The breakthrough comes

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Massive red tide threat

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29/12/1997

Beijing faces the biggest red tide threat in recent years, official media reported yesterday. Based on aerial and satellite photographs, marine officials said they

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