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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. When precancerous tissue forms, new blood vessels grow to supply it with blood.

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AFED report: state of water resources in the Arab world is precarious and worsening

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Water scarcity is a limitation to economic development, food production, and human health and well being.Water supply sources in the Arab world, two-thirds of which originate outside the region, are being stretched to their limits. Arabs cannot afford to waste a single drop of water.

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