Fighting for Healthy Plants

Key Plants in Fighting Cancer in the Middle East

This article is derived from a broader study of ethno-botany, medical anthropology and alternative medicine in Middle Eastern countries, which has been conducted during the past two decades. It presents examples of different edible and medicinal plants and their uses by different communities (urban, peasant and Bedouin) in the treatment of diseases and various medical disorders. Alongside, the ...

Fighting poverty, fighting AIDS.

J effrey sachs is an economist, not an evangelist. But give the man 10 minutes behind a microphone, and a scholarly symposium starts to feel like a revival meeting. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he tells a hushed hall after describing how AIDS sufferers die in Malawi for want of $1-a-day drugs, “this plague is exploding. Its consequences will make the world quake. Rich countries could stop the devast...

Radioiodination of a natural toxin (ICD-85) for fighting cancer

Introduction: Many molecules can be labeled by iodine. Some of labeled substances are used for investigations of cancer treatment, biodistribution study in body, receptor binding, secrete pathway etc. Peptides are biomolecules and can be labeled by 131Iodine. ICD- 85 is a tri-peptide derived from Iranian brown snake venom and scorpion venom. This tri-peptide treats cancer by i...

TEACHING TOOLS IN PLANT BIOLOGYTM: LECTURE NOTES Fighting for Their Lives: Plants and Pathogens

Plants are in constant contact with microbes, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, and nematodes, many of which have the potential to cause disease: that is, to become pathogenic. Globally, crop losses to pathogens are typically 10 to 30% of the potential harvest, but severe disease outbreaks can be evenmore damaging. Nevertheless, plant disease is the exception rather than the rule; ...

Fighting for air.