"The award of the Nobel Prize recognizes the discovery of a fundamental mechanism in the cell, a discovery that has stimulated the development of new therapeutic strategies, " the committee said in a news release.

CNN: 3 Americans win medicine Nobel for chromosome research

One popular project under the so-called Clean Development Mechanism program is the destruction of hydrofluorocarbon gases.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Last month, the FTC notched a win for its guideline approach when the online-advertising industry voluntarily agreed to one of the main privacy recommendations: the development of a "Do Not Track" mechanism that would let users limit Web tracking using a single setting in Web browsing software.

WSJ: FTC Urges Congress to Pass Digital-Privacy Law

Dr Unger and Dr Scherer suggest that this failure of the leptin mechanism, particularly its role in oxidising lipids, is crucial to the development of metabolic syndrome, and that it is a pathology of adipose tissue that has become overloaded.

ECONOMIST: Metabolic syndrome

While the exact mechanism responsible for this development is still unclear, the timing of the increase in patent cases against startups relative to the AIA strongly suggests a causal nexus.

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The European Commission will contribute 500, 000 Euros to the project promoting the development of professional self-regulatory mechanism, and supporting press freedom and freedom of information.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

It was instrumental in designing the Clean Development Mechanism, which it is doing very nicely out of, and it fears that flooding the market for carbon credits with new supply from tropical forests would depress the price and destroy the mechanism.

ECONOMIST: Climate change