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Myriad RBM Joins Institut Pasteur in the Global Fight Against Tuberculosis
2015-01-20 14:09:34| Biotech - Topix.net
Myriad RBM, a wholly owned subsidiary of Myriad Genetics, Inc. , today announced that it will assist the Institut Pasteur in a public-private research collaboration to fight the global tuberculosis epidemic. This research project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through a grant to the Institut Pasteur.
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Energy companies fight proxy access
2015-01-20 08:54:14| Energy - Topix.net
Not long after New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer said in November that he would file identically worded shareholder resolutions with 75 companies seeking the right of shareholders to nominate corporate directors, many of those companies replied that they were just about to do the same thing. The targeted companies, with energy firms representing nearly half of the bunch, were chosen as part of the New York City's official's effort to take on businesses he considers to have poor records on climate change, diversity, and shareholder's ability to vote on executive compensation.
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Finding Farmland: Global Maps Help Fight Hunger
2015-01-19 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: With the world growing increasingly warmer, experts have estimated that we are actually due to gain a great deal of farmland, even if the crop yield that that land could see may actually decrease. However, finding this land so that it can quickly be put to use remains a challenge. Now, two new global maps may provide some help in the search for fresh farmland. The maps were released today in the journal Global Change Biology, and offer two types of data that experts argue is essential for the...
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Progress in big fight for internet access in schools
2015-01-19 05:15:14| Wireless - Topix.net
Evan Marwell sensed a problem in 2011 when he suggested that his daughter's seventh-grade teacher use a popular online education course in class, and she replied, "It doesn't work." It worked fine, actually.
Obama State of the Union could ramp up climate fight with Republicans
2015-01-19 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Despite the new Republican majority and the oil industry gunning for the presidents agenda on emissions cuts and the Keystone XL pipeline, Barack Obama will show hes no lame duck on climate change, White House officials insisted ahead of his second-to-last State of the Union Address. After using his executive authority over the last 18 months to propose new carbon pollution rules for power plants, an historic emissions deal with China and just last week the roll-out of measures aimed at...
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