News tagged with vault
Rare, unique seeds arrive at Svalbard Vault, as crises threaten world crop collections
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) celebrated its third anniversary today with the arrival of seeds for rare lima beans, blight-resistant cantaloupe, and progenitors of antioxidant-rich red tomatoes from Peru and the Galapagos ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Peruvian potato farmers launch ambitious plan to send 1,500 varieties to Arctic seed vault
As climate change and disease threaten potato farming in the tuber's ancestral home in the Peruvian Andes, potato preservationists today launched a major effort to safeguard more than 1,500 varieties by sending them to the ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Red hot chili peppers arrive in sub-zero Arctic Seed Vault
A new collection of some of North America's hottest foods—an eclectic range of New World chili peppers—were delivered to the cool Arctic Circle environs of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week, where their exotic tongue-scorching ...
Jul 11, 2010 |
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Arctic Seed Vault becomes world's most diverse collection of crop diversity
Days after celebrating its second anniversary, the Svalbard "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault is receiving this week thousands of new seeds that will push its collection to more than half a million unique samples, ...
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Researchers design unique method to induce immunity to certain STDs
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common bacterial agent of sexually transmitted disease, accounting for more than a million reported infections in the United States each year.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Student open-source software brings personal finance to the iPhone (Video)
In these difficult economic times, everyone is seeking a better way to manage their personal finances. And at a time when even the newly elected president can't be separated from his wireless device, two undergraduates from ...
Feb 03, 2009 |
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