Bacteria could be used to remediate the colored textile wastewater

Tunisian scientists have isolated bacterial strain AAP56 from a polluted soil and that was identified as Stentrophomonas maltophilia, with the ability to decolorize recalcitrant dyes of industrial effluent.

Nanparticles-based food makes African malaria mosquito susceptible to pesticides

In abid to kill mosquitoes or make them more susceptible to pesticides through silencing particular genes, scientists have used nanoparticles to deliver double-stranded ribonucleic acid, dsRNA -- a molecule capable of specifically triggering gene silencing -- into mosquito larvae through their food.

Sewage-cleaning device could be used as a source of electricity

Scientists have found that small units that purify household sewage could provide a source of electricity for urban and remote communities in the developing world.

Energy Entrepreneurs: The brain grain

Rice husks used to make electricity in rural India.

Cactus could feed East African livestock

Scientists found that wild-growing cactus that has been widely dismissed as a noxious weed could sustain African livestock during drought as it has extreme tolerance to drought and remain succulent and easily digestible even in times of extreme water shortages, which makes them an excellent source of water and nutrition in harsh conditions

Pakistan is striving to grow in Nano technology field

Government is concentrating on establishing the Nano-technology laboratories with priority in Nano-biotechnology and establishing the synthesis and characterization techniques on the Nano-scale.

Mapping food and bio-energy in Africa

Crops can be produced for bioenergy on a significant scale in west, eastern and southern Africa without doing damage to food production or natural habitats.

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