Brussels, 19 May 2004 The UK stem cell bank, the only such facility in the world, officially opened on 19 May with the deposit of the first human embryonic stem cell line ever developed in Europe....
Brussels, 19 May 2004 The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked the European patent of a US biotechnology company, Myriad Genetics, on a breast and ovarian cancer genetic test. In a statement, the...
Staff at risk in RAE run-up Universities are moving to transfer weak researchers into teaching-only posts or make them redundant to improve their scores in the next research assessment exercise. The...
Brussels, 19 May 2004 On the second day of the EU's Competitiveness Council on 18 May, ministers voted through changes to the software patenting directive that will pave the way for extensive...
Brussels, 19 May 2004 The UK's Department of Trade and Industry, together with the Medical Research Council, are organising an event to coincide with the launch of the third call for proposals under...
Brussels, 19 May 2004 Brussels played host to two initiatives aimed at bringing some of the newest and most promising technology to the public on 18 May, and EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin...
Paris, 19 May 2004 ESA will meet with Polish industry and institutes, at a workshop in Warsaw, Poland, 26- May, to provide Polish industry with an opportunity to gain insight into ESA's programmes...
Paris, 19 May 2004 For almost four years and hundreds of individual articles the ESA Portal has been bringing its readers the facts about Europe's space activities. Today however, we have to inform...
Paris, 19 May 2004 Every time you look at the sky, you travel back in time... in a sense. When you look at a star which is 100 000 light-years away, you see it as it was 100 000 years ago. Its light...
Car fumes 'may cause one in six cot deaths' Exhaust fumes from vehicles may be to blame for up to a sixth of cot deaths, says an international study. Soot from combustion is already linked with lung...
Rome, 17 May 2004 Biotechnology holds great promise for agriculture in developing countries, but so far only farmers in a few developing countries are reaping these benefits, FAO said in its annual...
Brussels, 18 May 2004 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has given its support to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) with the provision that biotechnology is backed by...
Brussels, 18 May 2004 Researchers from Bristol University in the UK have created a genetically modified plant that can produce healthy fatty acids normally associated with eggs and fish. The...
Brussels, 18 May 2004 The French Commission for Atomic Energy (CEA) is organising a conference to launch a new Network of Excellence on prion diseases, to be held in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, on 28...
Brussels, 18 May 2004 The Council had an exchange of views on the Commission proposals on the admission of third- country nationals to carry out scientific research in the EC. Delegations intervened...