Source: Joe Fay – The Register
MPs have painted a embarrassing picture of the UK’s bio research facilities, describing some labs as “shabby” and “deplorable” after years of underinvestment and neglect.
The Innovations, Universities, Science and Skills committee launched its investigation after the foot and mouth outbreak in Surrey last year, which was eventually traced to a [...]
Archive for July 18th, 2008
18 Jul
Science MPs horrified by UK bio-lab management
18 Jul
Development: US Fails To Measure Up on ‘Human Index’
Source: by Ashley Seager/ Guardian/ July 17, 2008
· Nation slumps from 2nd to 12th in global table
· Richest fifth take home $168,000, poorest $11,000
Despite spending $230m (£115m) an hour on healthcare, Americans live shorter lives
than citizens of almost every other developed country. And while it has the second-highest
income per head in the world, the United [...]
