Promoting Public health: Toward a vaccine for methamphetamine abuse

09/11/11 • -1 min

Today’s solution addresses the development of a potential vaccine to fight methamphetamine abuse. Methamphetamine abuse costs the United States more than 23 billion annually in medical expenses, law enforcement costs, and lost productivity.

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Today’s solution sounds a warning bell about the much-anticipated new era of nanoagriculture — using nanotechnology to boost the productivity of plants for food, fuel, and other uses.

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Confronting Climate Change: Using the energy in oil shale without releasing carbon dioxide in a greenhouse world

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