Scientists have determined how to fortify the cassava plant, a staple root crop in many developing countries, with enough vitamins, minerals and protein to provide the poor and malnourished with a day’s worth of nutrition in a single meal.
The researchers have further engineered the cassava plant so it can resist the crop’s most damaging viral […]

A free and simple piece of open source software is helping manage the spread of disease in developing countries.
The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is providing countries, such as South Africa, with an online patient medical record system.
Users do not require any programming knowledge for the tool which helps improve how people are treated.
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Oregon decides not to enforce any copyright claims on the Oregon Revised Statutes
Cancer patient cured with his own immune system
BroadStar Achieves Breakthrough In Low-Cost Energy Production With New Generation Wind Turbine
Honda rolls out fuel cell car
California set for summer of love as court reverses gay marriage ban
High Court Sides with Guantanamo Detainees Again
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Oregon’s Legislative Counsel Committee had a meeting this morning to discuss the copyright claim on the Oregon Revised Statutes. After taking legal counsel from Dexter Johnson, talking with Karl Olson, Carl Malamud, three Oregon citizens and myself, they unanimously voted to not to enforce any copyright claims on the Oregon Revised Statutes.
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A US team has developed a new way to turn a patient’s T-cells against a deadly, metastasised skin cancer. A 55-year old man who received the immune boost lives tumour-free, more than two years after treatment.
“He had a remarkable response,” says Cassian Yee, an immunologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, US, […]

Renewable energy from the wind, which previously could only be generated in restricted geographic locations - typically off-shore or in remote rural areas - can now be made available almost anywhere, including urban environments, with the introduction of the AeroCam wind turbine.
The AeroCam, developed by BroadStar Wind Systems, was designed and patented for commercial applications. […]

Honda’s new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese production line Monday and is headed to southern California, where Hollywood is already abuzz over the latest splash in green motoring.
The FCX Clarity, which runs on hydrogen and electricity, emits only water and none of the gases believed to induce global warming. It is […]

Four years ago nearly 4,000 gay couples were married in San Francisco, only to find their unions annulled by the state’s supreme court within months. But from yesterday many of those same couples, and thousands more, were expected to take advantage of the court’s latest ruling permitting gay partners to become “spouses for life”.
The ruling […]

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
In its third rebuke of the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges […]