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Medical physics and biotechnology: highlights of 2021

Physics World

Alongside ongoing efforts to help detect , analyse and prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, 2021 has seen also the introduction of novel cancer treatments, advances in diagnostic imaging technology and innovative new biomedical devices. Here are just a few of the research highlights that caught my eye this year.

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DOE Issues RFI On Renewable Fuel Scale-Up And Demonstration

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On December 23, 2021, DOE issued a Request for Information (RFI) on the scale-up and demonstration of renewable fuels. DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) will use the information collected from this RFI to chart the potential growth of domestic renewable fuels production by 2030. Feedstock Production and Supply.

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DOE Announces Funding Focused On Reducing Aviation And Shipping Sector Emissions

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As part of a White House roundtable to launch the Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) Grand Challenge to decarbonize the aviation sector by 2050 , on September 9, 2021, the U.S. DOE aims to advance technologies to replace petroleum fuels used in heavy-duty forms of transportation, such as airplanes and ships.

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Boost for Open Access in Asia as Frontiers and Taiwan’s NHRI seal deal

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One of Taiwan’s leading medical research institutions, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), and the open-access publisher Frontiers have today announced a publishing deal effective as of August 2021. Established in 1995, NHRI is one of Asia’s leading medical research and healthcare institutions.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

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Corporation Bayer Image Image Products pharmaceuticals, v eterinary drugs, diagnostic imaging, general and specialty medicines, women's health products, over-the-counter drugs, pesticides, seeds, plant biotechnology. Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Roundup lawsuit: Bayer ordered to pay Pa. man $2.25B after jury finds weed killer caused cancer

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Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Monsanto ordered to pay $857 million to Washington school students and parent volunteers over toxic PCBs

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Corporation Bayer Image Image Products pharmaceuticals, v eterinary drugs, diagnostic imaging, general and specialty medicines, women's health products, over-the-counter drugs, pesticides, seeds, plant biotechnology. Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).