Word: foundered
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...clean energy investment fund worth $250 million. The idea behind Masdar - which organized the Future Energy Summit - is a radical one: prepare Abu Dhabi and the UAE to move beyond fossil fuels. "The UAE wants to be more than just an oil-producing country," says Marc Stuart, the co-founder of the carbon-trading firm EcoSecurities...
...megawatts of clean solar power, but it will export far more polluting power in oil - because the world will need it and there is nothing else feasible to replace it. "The World Future Energy Summit is nothing less than the future of the world itself," said Jonathan Porritt, founder of the UK sustainability organization Forum for the Future, one of the few speakers at the conference to call for a rapid reduction in fossil fuels. Green dreams are nice, but we need a green reality soon...
Using a genetic fingerprint, researchers at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute tracked the founder genetic mutation - a mutation that has been traced from many individuals in the present-day population to a common ancestor - back to the Frys. The Fry mutation has not been found in other places that researchers have looked - not in England, Denmark or Germany - further confirming that the mutation started with the Fry immigrants. (The researchers believe the genetic change either originated with George Fry or his wife, or that it began with a Fry in England, who died before passing it further...
...have inherited the mutation), who accounted for 0.15% of all colorectal cancers reported in the state from 1966 to 1995. Based on that percentage, researchers expected to see eight cases of colon cancer from this family in the past 10 years. But because of early medical intervention after the founder mutation was identified in 1993, only one colon cancer diagnosis was made...
Neklason and her colleagues are still hunting down other people who have inherited a genetic risk. So far, the researchers have identified 13 other families in the U.S. who have the same genetic fingerprint and founder mutation and are all related. "We think those other 13 families out there link in at some point and we predict that there are hundreds of families out there who carry this genetic risk," says Neklason...