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. Through vaccination, smallpox in humans and rinderpest in animals, ...
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. With climate change, ins...
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. Ins...
Using Nuclear Science to Control Mosquitoes
Throughout the millennia, people have fought mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit. Now with globalization and with climate change, mosquitoes and diseases are spreading, mosquitoes are becoming r...
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. The method uses radi...