Transport solutions for cleaner air

Cleaner Transport Fuels for Cleaner Air in Central Asia and the Caucasus

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...

REGULATION: Cleaner Air, Longer Life

Nanotechnology, the engineering of func­ tional materials at an atomic or molecular scale, has been among the fastest growing fields of science and technology. Worldwide sales of products incorporating nanotechnolo­ gy are projected to total $2.6 trillion by 2014, according to a 2004 report from Lux Research titled Sizing Nanotechnology’s Value Chain. But with the increasing use of nano materia...

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...