Marina Abramović: The Cleaner

Cleaner fish

The authorities in Modena hope the bats can stop the onslaught of the tiger mosquito. Council workers place the bat boxes in quiet, dark, south-facing sites that bats prefer for breeding in the early months of the year. “We are trying to think of what we could do to exploit their natural predators and so we thought of bats,” says Modena’s environment councillor Simona Arletti. “Until now the me...

Cleaner air in Volgograd.

THE POTENTIAL USE of antibody for diagnostic or therapeutic applications in human cancer may well depend upon the ability to synthesize large quantities of monospecific "anti-tumour" immunoglobulin in vitro. In this respect, the hybridoma technology has produced murine monoclonal antibodies directed against a number of human tumour-associated antigens (Koprowski et al., 1978; Yeh et al., 1979; ...

Cleaner air, bigger lungs.

In the latter half of the 20th century, Los Angeles had, by many measures, higher levels of photochemical air pollutants than any other major city in the United States (Fig. 1). To address this problem, the California Air Resources Board and its partners became leaders in quantifying the health effects of air pollutants and in aggressively implementing pollution-control strategies. Even with th...

The UNIDO–UNEP National Cleaner Production Centres

MTBE: the headache of cleaner air.

Background: Hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) are important renal replacement treatment in end stage renal disease (ESRD), but the comparison of quality of life (QOL) and causes of hospitalisation between the two modalities in China is lacking. In the present study, we compared the two modalities in a multi-center study. Subjects and methods: Six hundred and fifty four HD and 408 P...