drug trafficking. In an article in the journal Science seven researchers who have done work in Central america point to growing evidence that drug trafficking threatens forests in remote areas of Honduras Guatemala Nicaragua and nearby countries.
Traffickers are slashing down forests often within protected areas to make way for clandestine landing strips and roads to move drugs
and converting forests into agribusinesses to launder their drug profits the researchers say. Much of this appears to be a response to U s.-led anti-trafficking efforts especially in Mexico said Kendra Mcsweeney lead author of the Science article and an associate professor of geography at The Ohio State university.
In response to the crackdown in Mexico drug traffickers began moving south into Central america around 2007 to find new routes through remote areas to move their drugs from South america
The drug trade is not something she would normally investigate but it has been impossible to ignore in recent years she said.
There were other indications of drug trafficking taking place in the area. I would get approached by people who wanted to change $20 bills in places where cash is very scarce
The infusion of drug cash into these areas helps embolden resident ranchers land speculators and timber traffickers to expand their activities primarily at the expense of the indigenous people who are often key forest defenders.
Mcsweeney said more research is needed to examine the links between drug trafficking and conservation issues.
But there is already enough evidence to show that U s. drug policy has a much wider effect than is realized often.
Drug policies are also conservation policies whether we realize it or not Mcsweeney said. U s.-led militarized interdiction for example has succeeded mainly in moving traffickers around driving them to operate in evermore remote biodiverse ecosystems.
Reforming drug policies could alleviate some of the pressures on Central america's disappearing forests. The paper was authored co by Erik Neilsen and Ophelia Wang of Northern Arizona University;
and South africa thanks to a $400000 prize announced Nov 14 as part of the inaugural Healthcare Innovation Award program sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Glaxosmithkline and London-based nonprofit Save the Children.
Multi-billion pounds of these inactive ingredients overwhelm the total chemical burden from the active pesticide drug
The drug targets a protein CD133 found on cancer stem cells of some brain tumors and other cancers.
On Tuesday January 28 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a public meeting of the Allergenic Products Advisory Committee.
A pill a day may seem more appealing than getting shots. So why bother with allergy shots anymore?
With the help of solution-based chemical processing the chemists around Ajay Singh and Kevin Ryan at the University of Limerick have fabricated films of highly ordered wurtzite nanorods
and could inform the development of tailored microbiota transplants to improve intestinal health after antibiotic use or illness.
How antimicrobial protection is transferred from ants to plant is still unclear. Chilean researcher Marcia Gonzã¡
Interestingly some of the bacterial genera associated with the ants are known to produce antibiotic substances.
and Drug Administration and considered safe from a food safety perspective improve the cattle's natural ability to convert feed into more lean muscle.
because the cattle that are feed eating more are also eating more of the drug. Really we don't know the economic impact from these intake losses Reinhardt said.
or should the decision be made in extremely warm weather to not use the drug for a period of weeks until the weather abates?
and Drug Administration (FDA) and considered safe from a food safety perspective to improve the cattle's natural ability to convert feed into more lean muscle.
when on different drugs for example creating beautiful webs on LSD and terrible webs on caffeine.
The harmful Burkholderia species are more resistant to antibiotics than the symbiotic and agricultural strains.
In addition to the bioinformatics analysis in the current study the team analyzed resistance to a panel of common antibiotics and tested the potential of different Burkholderia species to cause infection in laboratory conditions.
The researchers explain the mechanism in terms of the nose's high quantities of arteriovenous anastomoses controlled by adrenergic vasoconstrictor nerves.
While the vasoconstriction is strongest in the nose previous studies have noted sympathetic vasoconstrictor activity in the forehead and cheek as noted by the researchers in the current study.
The in vitro studies conducted show how some of the products developed have anti-inflammatory properties in intestine cells
but what if I was going to the place for sexual dysfunction or drug rehab? GW was one of the first to use your kiosks?
include mandates such as working with the seasons, no artificial ingredients, no antibiotics for animals, cage free birds and no GMO ingredients or hormones.
researchers discovered that an alarming percentage of the meat was contaminated with multi-drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus,
Los angeles, Chicago, Fort lauderdale, Flagstaff and Washington, D c. Meat and poultry inspectors usually look for many types of multi-drug-resistant bacteria,
half of the meat sold in grocery stores are contaminated with S. aureus one in four samples were resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics methicillin-resistant staph was found in three of the samples the staph are resistant to up to
and give them unnecessary antibiotics to promote their growth. This form of antibiotic abuse has gotten so widespread that healthy farm animals now receive around 70 percent of all antibiotics administered to farm animals.
The fact that drug-resistant S. aureus was so prevalent, and likely came from the food animals themselves,
is troubling, and demands attention to how antibiotics are used in food-animal production today, TGEN's Lance Price said in a statement.
Studies as far back as 1976 have shown a link between antibiotics and the spread of drug resistant bacteria in humans, reports Wired.
And last year though, the Food and Drug Administration recommended that farmers only administer antibiotics to sick animals to minimize the use of the drugs, reports CBS. One country at least,
Denmark, has paid heed to the potential risks and have quit giving their animals low-dose antibiotics.
Scientists hope they won't be the only one. via TGEN News Photo: procsilas Related on Smartplanet:
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although they're regulated as drugs. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, signed into law last year,
because those particular substances are banned as dangerous drugs. Nicotine is just as dangerous, but because the tobacco industry has fought so hard in Washington for so long it's not yet treated that way.
FDA tackles antibiotics in livestock Agriculture's future power struggle: Land grabbing, resource control and competition Bioengineering e coli to turn seaweed into fuel Fatty foods cause brain scarring, study shows
as harder, stronger, lighter nanomaterials become commercially available. 5.)Chemist explores nanotechnology in search of cheaper solar cells.
pregnant women who use certain medications often will fill out a voluntary questionnaire asking for more information--to market new products as the child grows.
Pharmaceuticals: 59,350 patents in 2010; down 0%from 2009. Medical Devices: 52,117 patents in 2010;
Pharmaceuticals If you're wondering what Big Pharma is up to, wonder no more: organics represent the majority of all patents from this industry, at 61 percent.
milking goats for drugs, or milking goats for human milk? And which work-around has a better chance of widespread adoption?
a drug that could fight fatigue and protect the liver. Palpu Pushpangadan, head of TBGRI, who had met the tribe in 1987
and prescribes drugs accordingly
USDA, Russian scientists develop interactive crop mapthe U s. Department of agriculture and St petersburg State university have partnered to create a new website that offers geographic distributions of 100 crops,
to protect our future resources of food, textiles, pharmaceuticals, building materials and a host of other products drawn from nature.
The importance of medicines derived from living things is limited not to the developing world more than half of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United states come from,
So now, rather than crawling the beaches for little hunks of whale vomit, researchers could manufacture a similar compound in the lab. Ambergris in a bowl Before you go check your perfume bottles,
which is getting squeezed by drug wars to the north and to the south. So very few countries meet your criteria?
the development of nitrogen-based fertilizer at the close of the 19th century by chemists Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber.
Drugs-on-the-cob: growing new meds in cornscientists have found a way to use maize to produce an expensive drug.
Specifically, it's a drug for a rare and life-threatening lysosomal disease that could previously only be manufactured by expensive cell culture techniques.
People who have this inherited disease endure progressive damage to the heart, brain, and other organs,
In May, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first ever drug produced in a genetically engineered plant cell:
Drugs made in duckweed, safflower, and tobacco have progressed as far as clinical trials â oe
however, maize may one day become the go-to way to make complex protein drugs.
Sometime this summer or soon after, the federal Food and Drug Administration may finally approve the first-ever genetically modified animal for human consumption--a fast-growing Atlantic salmon that has taken 17 years to reach the threshold of American consensus. The man to thank
so their milk contains high levels of an antimicrobial enzyme to help infants ward off stomach infections, a problem that plagues the developing world's children.
And for that very reason they've long been regarded as mother nature's antidote for our carbon-emitting ways.
The Food and Drug Administration seems set on regulating the software that runs on the ipad, not the device itself,
Researchers are working on an antimicrobial film that would go inside food packaging to provide an extra barrier against pathogens.
and Drug Administration before it could be used commercially
Leafsnap combines biometrics and botany for electronic field guidewashington--This week behind the Smithsonian Castle, a research botanist and two computer science professors unveiled Leafsnap, a free plant identification
In another application of this technology, scientists at UC Davis have reared goats that produce milk with an antidiarrheal disease enzyme.
If this pharm animal scenario sounds a little too dystopian sci fi novel to you, you're not alone.
Westhusin acknowledges he has the F. D. A.,the conventional drug industry, and the general American public against him.
Advocates of this emerging field â oe called molecular farming â oe say that protein drugs could be made more efficiently and cheaply inside GM CROPS,
'This opens the potential for plants to manufacture a range of drugs in the developed,
because it wanted assurances that the drugs did not contain allergenic plant sugars or pesticides.
This trial is the culmination of the EU Framework 6 Pharma-Planta consortium of about 30 academic institutions and small companies.
But breast-milk-sharing isn't encouraged by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA. The use of donor milk, especially off the internet, according to the agency this past December, poses risk for the baby.
such as some illegal drugs, and to a limited number of prescription drugs that might be in the human milk,
if the donor has not been screened adequately if human milk is handled not and stored properly,
The Bertschi School is a Living Building, designed by the Restorative Design Collective, which is one of the greenest new programs around.
Earlier this summer, Smartplanet's Stacy Lipson reported on graphic cigarette labels released by the US Food and Drug Administration which included pictures of rotting teeth
and excessive amounts of drug residue by identifying more than 60 varieties of chemicals, reported China's official Xinhua news agency.
such as some types of high-value pharmaceuticals, has required traditionally the use of highly insulated cardboard cartons.
Second, the honey in question contained antibiotics that are regulated more closely in the United states. It turns out
while Israel has isolated a strain that resists Tamiflu, the most common antiviral. By attacking this adaptability, pandemic skeptic Peter Palese of the Mt.
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They â â¢ve got about 137,000 members at this Point the way it works is each member can scan any product barcode they come into contact with--whether it food or from the pharmacy or hardware store.
What if we had a food pill that could take care of hunger when you didn't want to spend time preparing food.
Â--The latest finding in the world's  bottomless cup of coffee studies reveals that the drug helps us remember things.
Johns hopkins university in Baltimore  observed that people who took a caffeine pill scored higher on memory tests than did swallowed those who a dummy tablet, the BBC reportsâ in a summary of an article in Nature Neuroscience.
it gave pills to 160 participants about 5 minutes after it showed them a set of images.
Some of the pills contained 200 milligrams of caffeine-an amount comparable to a large cup of java.
the individuals who had taken the caffeine-laced tablets outperformed those who took placebos. Many of the dummy takers thought similar images were the same.
Lead researcher Prof Michael Yassa cautioned against jumping to bold conclusions about the drug's benefits
and drugs Engineered plants detect bombs and environmental contaminants Chemists create a better artificial nose to sniff out explosives
and sour milk German airports use honeybees to sniff out air quality Breath test can detect cancer New remote sensing system can detect explosives
and drugs A cheap landmine detector made from ebay parts Sensor robots sense out environmental changes
The production process does not involve any use of pesticides, chemicals, herbicides, fungicides, antibiotics or hormones.
Gustavo Castro is an environmental chemist at who says he'd heard for a long time that the peel of the banana was the best part of the fruit,
Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of drug-resistant supergerms, American farmers near-ubiquitous use of the weedkiller Roundup has led to the rapid growth of tenacious new superweeds.
Glyphosate oeis as important for reliable global food production as penicillin is for battling disease, Stephen B. Powles,
Genescient's primary business focus is on the development of pharmaceuticals for age-related diseases,
The typically poor longevity effects of single compounds argue against the use of drug-like therapeutics directed to a single target for longevity treatments.
I focused on complementary herbal extracts that have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and metabolic potential (known factors in driving aging) along with a positive effect on longevity genes and a proven history of use in traditional herbal medicine to treat a wide spectrum of diseases.
I soon focused on the potent antidiabetic herb, Pterocarpus marsupium. Crude extracts of Pterocarpus marsupium (Indian keno tree) bark naturally have high concentrations of pterostilbene (more than 4%by weight
More recent studies in animals show potent antidiabetic activity. Published studies have shown also that pterostilbene is a potent anticancer compound.
Plant stem cells could be fruitful source of low-cost cancer druga popular cancer drug could be produced cheaply
Scientists and engineers behind the development say the drug treatment currently used on lung, ovarian, breast,
which can be manipulated to produce large amounts of the active compound would effectively create an abundant supply of the drug.
indicating that the technique could be used to manufacture other important pharmaceuticals besides paclitaxel. The study was published in Nature Biotechnology and supported by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council and the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council.
"Plants are a rich source of medicine around one in four drugs in use today is derived from plants.
Futurist Fixes 1. The Food Pill. In the future, we may see a type of pill for replacing food,
but experts say it likely would not be a simple compound of chemicals. A pill-sized food replacement system would have to be extremely complex because of the sheer difficulty of the task it was being asked to perform
more complex than any simple chemical reaction could be. The most viable solution, according to many futurists, would be a nanorobot food replacement system.
and senior research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, has described several potential food replacement technologies that are somewhat pill-like.
however, is that instead of containing drug compounds, the capsules would contain thousands of microscopic robots called nanorobots.
According to Hessel, individualized drugs could lower the cost of drug development across the entire spectrum of the development chain.
To Prevent Plastic Pollution David Edwards once came up with a method for delivering drugs inside porous wiffle balls of inhalable insulin (Idea#3). He wrote two textbooks (Ideas#1 and#2),
More than a decade after publishing a study in Science and selling a promising idea for an inhaled drug delivery system, Edwards,
a biomedical engineer at Harvard, realized that his idea remained just an idea thanks in large part to the whims of the pharmaceutical market. oein a world where things are changing so rapidly, Ã la Facebook,
Alternative method for farmsan antibacterial product manufactured by a Malaysian company has become a reliable substitute for antibiotics for many farmers in China.
THE imminent ban on antibiotics in agricultural and livestock farming has prompted Chinese farmers to use other alternatives to ensure the safety of their produce and poultry.
Farmers have gradually found solutions for antibiotic growth promoters which have been used widely in the industry for a long time.
Interestingly, the antibacterial Orgacids product manufactured by Malaysia homegrown Sunzen Biotech Bhd has quickly become a reliable substitute for many farmers in Shandong
we used 100%antibiotics in our animal feed for the chickens. But now, we have reduced it to only 30%and mixed the feed with others like Orgacids
probiotics, acidifiers and other green products in animal feed as part of their efforts to phase out the harmful antibiotics. oeafter using Orgacids and probiotics,
whose family runs a pig farm in Yantai in Shandong said he was happy with the results yielded using Orgacids as they managed to save about 4%on the volume of feed for the pigs. oewe have reduced the use of antibiotics
and other medication to kill germs by 40%.%Previously, our pigs took six months to grow but now with Orgacids,
It is unlike antibiotics where you have to stop using it during the withdrawal period to let the body system clear. oethe recommended dose is 1. 5kg of Orgacids to a tonne of animal feed.
E coli and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus in the livestock digestive system. oesalmonella will be cured within two to three weeks after the chicken is fed with Orgacids
medical drugs and devices, over-the-counter medicine, clinical therapies, etc. This field has taken on a life of its own due to economic incentives:
genetically modified drugs (i e.,, oebiologics) at $75 billion; genetically modified seeds and crops at $110 billion;
livestock which produce medications or biological substances such as spider-silk; and an optimal source of biofuel.
The Guardian covered the conference by focusing on a recent lab achievement to produce the antimalarial drug, artemisinin
Along with that loss may come the loss of the plant diversity and a new, less desirable oemonotherapy drug.
Critics say the new drug production method is potentially damaging, entirely unnecessary, and causes harm by taking away the livelihood of poor farmers.
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