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Sep

Drinking Water Innovation

Jacob Gaffney  in Health, Living , ,

Most western countries’ drinking water is of excellent quality, but there is no room for complacency. The challenges are growing: undesirable contaminants are found in rivers, lakes and groundwater.
Climate change is also warming waterbodies, with implications for water quality, and in developing countries more and more people are reliant on groundwater containing natural contaminants. In […]

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6

Jul

GMing the Cassava

Jacob Gaffney  in Health, Food , , ,

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, who received the bulk of their funding from Bill Gates’ charitable organisation, have further engineered […]

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4

Jun

Pure Drinking Water

Jacob Gaffney  in Health , , , ,

A genetic tool used by medical researchers may also be used in a novel approach to remove harmful microbes and viruses from drinking water.
In a series of proof-of-concept experiments, Duke University engineers demonstrated that short strands of genetic material could successfully target a matching portion of a gene in a common fungus found in water […]

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