Make anything, anywhere
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Neil Gershenfeld and his team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have launched 10 fabrication laboratories called Fab labs around the world, from Norway, India, Costa Rica to Africa, which offer technical empowerment to students in developing world communities. These science labs together are showing that giving people the ability to make things for themselves can be the fastest way to solve their problems, particularly in communities with little access to education or technology.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Open season
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China's struggle to characterize and contain the SARS virus has put the country's work on infectious diseases back on target. The Chinese government and scientific community have become better prepared to combat epidemics and the growth in China's infectious-disease research shows the country's growing activity in science.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Chinese hesitancy on avian flu
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China's response to bird flu is a mixture of secrecy and parsimony, which is not good for interests of its farmers or its people. China should start sharing the information about avian flu, make samples and genetic data for circulating strains immediately available and also learn to collaborate more openly.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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