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The Environmental Protection Agency's Science Policy Council has outlined the agency's nanotechnology-research needs.

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1. Brookhaven Lab Honored with EPA Environmental Achievement Award
   10-17-2006 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
   Brookhaven National Laboratory is being honored with a National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) Achievement Award for reducing both its mercury waste generation and its inventory of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The NPEP encourages public and private organizations to form voluntary partnerships with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce the use or release of any of 31 priority toxic chemicals and metals identified by the EPA.
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2. Stronger EPA leadership needed to improve water quality in Mississippi River
   10-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
   The US Environmental Protection Agency must take a more aggressive leadership role in implementing the Clean Water Act if water quality in the Mississippi River and the northern Gulf of Mexico is to improve, says a new report from the National Research Council. EPA has failed to use its authority under the act to adequately coordinate and oversee state activities along the Mississippi and ensure progress toward the act's goal of 'fishable and swimmable' waters, the report says.
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3. Germany Sets Out To Develop Global HIV Cryobank
   10-06-2006 · ScienceDaily
   The HIV virus still poses unsolved problems. Despite decades of research, no vaccine yet exists. An international project supported by the Gates Foundation, Fraunhofer, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Saarland in Germany has set out to develop a global HIV cryobank.
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4. DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis
   05-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
   The field of metagenomics is still in its infancy -- the equivalent of the early days of the California Gold Rush, with labs vying to stake their claim. Amidst the prospecting, the call has been issued for methods to separate fool's gold from the real nuggets. Such a gold standard has now been set and published by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute with colleagues in the May edition of Nature Methods.
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5. Paying attention sets off symphony of cell synchronization
   12-20-2006 · EurekAlert!
   A Northwestern University study uses a new strategy to show precisely how paying attention alters brain activity. Digging deep to summon that extra ounce of attention engages a symphony of brain activity that comes to your rescue as millions of neurons work together to make the music of a vivid conscious experience. Think of a conductor stepping in to control a large set of unruly musicians in an orchestra so that they can all play together.
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6. Strategy for nanotechnology-related environmental, health and safety research
   02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!
   The Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technology today released a document describing the National Nanotechnology Initiative's strategy for addressing priority research on the environment, health and safety aspects of nanomaterials.
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7. Changes needed in how federal government evaluates efficiency of research at EPA, other agencies
   01-31-2008 · EurekAlert!
   The White House Office of Management and Budget evaluates research at the US Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies using the Program Assessment Rating Tool, a set of questions that asks agencies about many aspects of their programs, including whether they can measure and demonstrate annual improvements in efficiency. Based on the answers, OMB rates research programs as effective, ineffective or somewhere in between. An "ineffective" rating can have serious adverse consequences for a program or agency.
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8. ESA polls stakeholders to inform its long-term exploration strategy
   12-19-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
   ESA PR 48-2006. On 8 and 9 January, in the historic town of Edinburgh, ESA and BNSC are to hold a workshop to kick off the first in a series of consultations with key stakeholders. The aim is to define European long-term strategy for space exploration and set the scene for the decisions to be taken at the ESA Council meeting at ministerial level scheduled for 2008.
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9. Long-awaited international ethical guidelines for biobank researchers
   09-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Many sets of guidelines and regulations, and great differences among countries. This is what medical researchers encounter if they want to use previously collected samples from biobanks in their research. For one thing, this makes it extremely complicated to carry out major international studies. In the latest issue of Nature Biotechnology, Swedish ethics researchers at the Center for Bioethics, together with leading biobank researchers, put forward a pioneering solution: a set of practical ethical guidelines for biobank research.
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10. Audio Spot: Oak Ridge reactor sets neutron world record
    11-29-2007 · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
    The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has set a world record for concentration of cold neutrons that are used to study materials.
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