Charting a Path to Sustainable Agriculture

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Charting a Path to Success in Virtual Screening

Docking is commonly applied to drug design efforts, especially high-throughput virtual screenings of small molecules, to identify new compounds that bind to a given target. Despite great advances and successful applications in recent years, a number of issues remain unsolved. Most of the challenges and problems faced when running docking experiments are independent of the specific software used...

Charting a path to end the AIDS epidemic

Editorials 408 From 8 to 10 June 2016, heads and representatives of states and governments, along with other key stakeholders, will assemble at the United Nations (UN) in New York, for the High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS. There are three reasons why this meeting is an important milestone for the global response against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ...

How organic agriculture contributes to sustainable development

Organic agriculture can contribute to meaningful socio-economic and ecologically sustainable development, especially in poorer countries. This is due on the one hand to the application of organic principles, which means efficient management of local resources (e.g. local seed varieties, manure, etc.) and therefore costeffectiveness. On the other hand, the market for organic products – at local ...

A path to sustainable energy by 2030.

by Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi Executive Summary The plan below demonstrates how the world can feasibly produce 100% of its energy by 2030 from sources with near-zero lifetime (including construction, operation and decommissioning) emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. Only technologies available and scalable today are included. These include wind, water, and solar (WWS) f...