The consortium of scientists from the Durham and Newcastle universities, and the UK government's Central Science Laboratory plan to identify these defence genes, enabling them to be used in wheat breeding programmes.
Some 80% of foreign doctoral students in science and engineering plan to stay there after graduation--up from 50% in 1985.
China's science and health authorities plan to develop a vaccine for H7N9 bird flu within seven months, amid reports that the virus has been detected in ducks in Zhejiang province, the newspaper adds.
The last part of the plan is for more science.
ECONOMIST: A plan to overhaul America��s space agency is long overdue
It wasn't rocket science, but Fidelity's plan worked: Representatives from the Boston-based firm got to ask six out of 27 questions allocated to the crowd, or more than one out of five questions.
Working with an annual spending plan is where art meets science.
In 2006, China's leadership unveiled the "National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology, " a blueprint for turning China into a tech powerhouse by 2020.
Park spent much of her first month in office negotiating with opposition lawmakers over an ambitious government reorganization plan that aims to focus on science and economic growth.
It said it published science tasks a year in advance so teachers can plan their lessons and each task is clearly labelled with the year it should be submitted.
Martin Dempsey told a Christian Science Monitor luncheon on Tuesday that the military continues to plan and develop options.
This event was a huge public outcry in Yakutia and beyond and gave a powerful impetus to the development of regional science and culture, the development of the future action plan in the field of traditional culture and folklore.
Scientists have asked the government to reconsider a plan to remove higher funding for A-level science courses.
As I've written before, government and industry in the UK now have a joint plan to push the space sector forward, and Science Minster David Willetts has been steadily working through a checklist that broadly follows the recommendations in the Space Innovation and Growth Strategy (S-IGS) published in 2010.
Organise, plan and secure resources to implement the programmes of IOC in ocean science, observations and services in the member states in Africa, ensuring that capacity is developed strategically and within the IOC Capacity-development guidelines.
UNESCO: Vacancy : IOC COORDINATOR IN AFRICA ( 8/4/2011) (AF/RP/KEN/SC/0012 - (P4))
She also said the plan might have the unintended consequence of reducing the number of students studying science, technology, engineering and maths - the so-called STEM subjects - because students tend to get higher grades in the arts and humanities.
BBC: Top students expansion plan 'could hit social mobility'
Anyone that's ever tried to plan an outdoor activity in advance knows that weather forecasting is not an exact science, but the perpetual sky-watchers at NASA may have inadvertently found a way to improve these guesstimations.
ENGADGET: NASA accidentally improves weather forecasting with lunar dust-measuring lasers
The agency will continue to discuss and assess a plan with Esa that will not only be cost-effective, but ensure key science objectives are met.
At NYU Langone, officials will consider waterproofing strategies for one building that houses mice underground and they are working on "an aggressive evacuation plan, " said Dafna Bar-Sagi, the center's vice dean for science.
Prepare, plan and execute extra-budgetary projects and locate and mobilize extra-budgetary financial resources for science and sustainable development programmes in the Pacific.
UNESCO: Vacancy : Programme Specialist (Natural Sciences) (30/5/2011) (AS/RP/SAM/SC/0005 - (P3))
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