Declan Butler

News blog 14 Sep 2012 | 19:17 BST | Posted by Declan Butler | Category: Earth, environment & ecology, Energy, Fukushima, Industry, International Relations, Natural disasters, Policy A week can be a long time in politics, so today’s announcement by the Japanese government that it intends to phase out its 50 remaining nuclear reactors by around the 2030s is perhaps much less of a certainty than it might at first appear.

Paris Myers: claims his software gives a perfect match, spots repeats and creates a virtual genome. Maverick, dreamer or visionary? The jury is still out on Craig Venter, head of Celera Genomics Systems, whose ambition is to sequence and piece together the entire human genome by 2001 using a controversial ‘whole-genome shotgun’ strategy.

News blog 15 Nov 2012 | 18:57 BST | Posted by Declan Butler | Category: Health and medicine, Uncategorized It appears that the Affordable Medicines Facility — Malaria (AMFm) is being scuttled by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The AMFm is a multimillion-dollar programme to get effective drugs — artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) — to remote rural villages, where local stores are often the main providers of medicines.