Artificial solution to global warming?
Brussels, 01 Aug 2006 Nobel Prize-winning chemist Professor Paul Crutzen has outlined a drastic 'emergency route' from global warming, which could use artificial means to combat the slow rise in...
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SATCEN - Report from the Secretary General/High Representative to the Council on the Implementation of the Joint Action on the Establishment of a European Union Satellite Centre
Brussels, 01 Aug 2006 Full text of Document 12091/06 Suite of documents 12091/06 Subject: SATCEN - Report from the Secretary General/High Representative to the Council on the implementation of the...
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Making ageing valuable
Brussels, 01 Aug 2006 The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) project has completed its investigation into life beyond middle age, looking at the 50-plus age-group and what this...
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Seeking new ways of cleaning up oil spills, European researchers decode genome of oil eating bacterium
Brussels, 31 Jul 2006 A team of European researchers has decoded the genome of a key oil-degrading bacterium, Alcanivorax borkumensis. They hope that their new understanding of the biochemistry of...
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Honey's anti-bacterial qualities make it an attractive alternative for protecting wounds against drug-resistant bacteria
Brussels, 31 Jul 2006 Researchers from the University of Bonn have found that one of the oldest traditional remedies known to man - honey - may offer a better treatment for slow-healing wounds,...
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Report recommends revision of bioethics law to allow therapeutic cloning and embryonic stem cell research
Brussels, 31 Jul 2006 A report published by a French member of parliament has recommended relaxing the authorisation procedure for embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning within France....
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Study suggests genetic modifications could interfere with insect transmission of malaria
Brussels, 31 Jul 2006 Scientists from the UK and the US have made a major breakthrough in understanding the genetics of the insect parasite responsible for the spread of diseases such as malaria....
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Proposed Council Decision on the signature of the Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement with the Republic of Korea (extract)
Brussels, 31 Jul 2006 Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the signature of the Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and the Republic of Korea Full Text...
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Most colleges 'set to sign technology transfer deals' Most of Britain's top research universities will have signed long-term deals giving companies exclusive access to their discoveries and...
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Emmanuel regains top rung on Cambridge's academic ladder Emmanuel College, alma mater of F. R. Leavis, Griff Rhys Jones and Cecil Parkinson, has been ranked as the best college for academic...
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EU sheep breeding programme resistant to TSE, says EFSA
Brussels, 28 Jul 2006 The EU's current sheep breeding programme is resistant to Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) and should continue in the interest of public safety, according to a...
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Physics to the rescue of the fresco
Brussels, 28 Jul 2006 Physicists in Italy have developed a new microwave-based technique for analysing the moisture and salt content of fresco paintings without damaging them - something that was...
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IP Watch Takes a Look at the EPO Project on the Future of Intellectual Property (link)
Washington, D.C., 28 Jul 2006 Full text The European Patent Office (EPO) with its centralised patent grant system was established in 1973. The EPO has 31 member states and comprises a legislative...
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UK patent attorneys welcome universities' spin-out businesses and patent applications but caution: "publish and be demned"
London, 28 Jul 2006 Barry Treves, President of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), has welcomed the news that more UK universities are patenting inventions and doing licence deals,...
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Agenda of the Research and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party
Brussels, 28 Jul 2006 Full text of Document 2580/06 Brussels, July Tel./Fax: +32.2.281.73.63 / +32.2.281.93.88 / Fax +32.2.281.65.11 Subject: Research and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working...