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Healing with good nature

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Ethnobotanist, Paul Alan Cox, is an environmental science professor from Upsala University, and is concerned about loss of biodiversity and loss of knowledge of natural remedies. He uses a helicopter to gain access to difficult sites, and grows seeds himself to preserve them. He has discovered a number of natural remedies, but has failed to achieve a goal of finding a cure for breast cancer. Local people benefit from Samoa from the development of a drug with potential as an HIV treatment, in recognition of their intellectual property rights.

Research, Environmental aspects, Naturopathy, Ethnobotany

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The MIT men who make a killing

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Entrepreneur Mike Cassidy is using his business expertise to form a second business partnership, Direct Hit. He points to the availability of investment funds from US venture capitalists as having helped him fund his innovative software ideas. Direct Hit has required some $3.4 million in funding from venture capitalists. Cassidy was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he set up his first business with two other students, called Stylus Innovation. The firm was sold for $13 million in 1996.

Computer software industry, Software industry, Finance, Behavior, Businessmen, Cassidy, Mike (American chief executive officer), Direct Hit, Stylus Innovation

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