Cleaning contaminated environment: a growing challenge

A Growing Challenge: Hospitals Operating in a Cost-constrained Environment

Aging successfully: a growing challenge.

The aging population is a looming iceberg that threatens to sink the healthcare system as it sails through the 21st century. For the first time in history life expectancy in developed and developing countries has reached a limit that strains the very system that made longevity possible. Diseases that people used to die from last century are now conditions they live with, and the medical establi...

The growing GM challenge

Frustration at the public resistance to GM crops in Europe is leading to campaigns to highlight future developments.

Growing challenge of Darwin's detractors

Evolutionary biologists in the US got a little early seasonal cheer in December with a detailed and comprehensive attack on the increasingly widespread notion of intelligent design. A Pennsylvania judge ruled that it could not be taught alongside Darwin’s theory of natural selection in biology classes. Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology ...

Cleaning Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Contaminated Garden Soil by Phytoremediation.

A poplar planted system resulted in the complete removal of at least 19 of the 29 potential polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners detected in trace amounts (37.9 ng g-1 in total) in a commercial garden soil, while the unplanted soil only had 2 congeners completely removed after 96 days. In addition, the most recalcitrant congener, PCB 52, only decreased by 0.1% in the unplanted reactors whil...