Roundup 10/13: Embracing Diversity Edition

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Roundup 10/13: Embracing Diversity Edition -

scientists and policymakers are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa this week as part of the international DIVERSITAS program of biodiversity science.

300 farmers in 60 locations across the Benin signed as part of a program supported by the Canadian government to test and implement new farming strategies to cope with the effects of climate change.

as scientists are urging the public to get vaccinated against swine flu, voices in political right and left say to the public, for different reasons, do not take the vaccine.

the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation attacked the recommendations of a federal panel that genetic testing for diseases such as cancer should not be protected by patent law, and the American ... intellectual property Law Association is meeting this week in Washington, DC

William Brown, former director of the Academy of Natural sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was appointed chairman of the Woods Hole Research Center.

The Institute of Medicine yesterday announced 65 new members and 5 new foreign partners. Most are leading researchers in biomedicine and health, but the list also includes at least two lawyers and a health journalist.

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