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Expanding the Range of Vaccines to Fight Human and Animal Diseases: How Nuclear Science Helps
The discovery and production of vaccines was a major breakthrough in efforts to protect people and animals from infectious diseases. Read more →
Food Irradiation and the Changing Climate
Throughout history, insect pests have posed challenges by spreading diseases, damaging crops and affecting environments, causing damage of more than 70 billion dollars a year. Read more →
Area-wide Integrated Pest Management
Throughout history, people have had to fight insect pests to reduce diseases, minimize food losses, protect agricultural trade or simply to avoid the nuisance of stinging, biting and buzzing bugs. Insect pest control is usually implemented locally in individual fields or properties. Read more →
Using Nuclear Science to Control Mosquitoes
Throughout the millennia, people have fought mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit. Read more →
Using Nuclear Science to Boost Plant Biodiversity
For more than 80 years, mutation breeding has been a fundamental and highly successful tool in the global efforts to feed an ever increasing and nutritiously demanding population. Read more →
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