Organic Market Seen To Double By 2012
The global sales of certified organic products is expected by the UN Conference on Trade and Development to increase to 52 billion euros by 2012, up nearly half from the 30 billion euros in 2006, in turn a 20 percent increase over the previous year.
The major markets are North America and Europe and South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. Exports from developing countries, including the Philippines, are increasing.
The attraction is that organics are priced higher, up to 150 percent more expensive than conventional products in Europe and 20 percent to 50 percent higher over non-organic products in Philippine supermarkets. Read more
Scientists Use Synthetic Corneas To Restore Vision
Scientists in Canada and Sweden have used laboratory-made biosynthetic corneas to restore vision to patients in a small human trial, and shown for the first time that they can help to repair damaged eye tissue.
The scientists, whose work was published on Wednesday in the Science Translational Medicine journal, said their findings offered hope for the millions of people who go blind each year because of a worldwide shortage of corneas for donation.
“This study … is the first to show that an artificially fabricated cornea can integrate with the human eye and stimulate regeneration,” said May Griffith of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, who led the study. Read more
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DAE Unveils Supercomputer
The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) on Friday added yet another feather to its cap with the inauguration of its latest supercomputer cluster, “Annapurna,” at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) here.
The home-built supercomputer, built at a cost of Rs 6 crore, is a major facility for scientists and researchers and one of the fastest in the country.
The induction of the machine “is a major event,” said AEC chairman Srikumar Banerjee.
India had years ago begun building such “parallel processors” through a network of institutes amid an “embargo against us”, Dr Banerjee said. Read more