Tibetan drug database</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Tibetan drug database"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Tibetan,drug,database"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">15-03-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Tibetan drug database</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_bBBlG7vfJhvVyAHWoiWb_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Beijing, China [SciDev.net (registration required)]: An online database of traditional Tibetan medicines has been launched in China. <br>The free access database, launched on 24 February, is a joint effort by two institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS): the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, based in Xining — a city populated largely by ethnic Tibetans — and the Lanzhou-based Scientific Information Center for Resources and Environment. <br>Although the database is currently available only in Chinese and Tibetan, its developers are seeking sponsors to expand it into a comprehensive multilingual website and add news, views and other information about Tibetan drugs. <br>The database developers have yet to consider the intellectual property implications of making indigenous Tibetan knowledge freely available on the Internet. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1977&language=1 " target="blank">www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1977&language=1 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show