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  1. EMBO's fellowship of the molecular biologists

    Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 Thanks to a moderate hike in its budget, the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) will be able to expand its fellowship and 'science and society' actions to non-EU...

  2. Workshop promotes joint EU-China participation in FP6

    Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 A workshop on the scientific, technological and societal aspects of multifunctional materials in Bologna, Italy highlighted growing research collaboration between the EU and...

  3. Natural whey to produce packaging plastics

    Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 Dairy industry waste is a potential source of biologically-produced polymers with commercial applications in packaging. WHEYPOL is seeking a cost-effective method to tap this...

  5. From the information society to the knowledge society

    Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 The European Commission is funding an Integrated Project that aims to revolutionise the way in which information is stored and accessed, leading to the creation of a knowledge...

  6. The efficient management of production cycles

    Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 A conference on process automation and control for the efficient management of production cycles will take place at the Milan Fair in Italy on 14 and 15 September. The event...

  7. New Member States at ESA

    Paris, 25 Mar 2004 In the course of its meeting in Kiruna (Sweden) on 24 and 25 March, the ESA Council approved the accession of Greece and Luxembourg to the ESA Convention. The two countries are...

  8. Political tunnel vision is today's real terror

    In retreating from the world and politics, we all become more vulnerable - as the people and politicians of Spain have learnt, writes Bill Durodie The defeat of the People's Party in the Spanish...

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  9. 'I didn't want to make it easy for them to divide us'

    Ten years after the savage genocide in Rwanda, Fran Abrams meets a woman who risked her life by standing up for her classmates. Despite losing a leg, she never gave up on her dream of finishing her...

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  10. Spare-part factory or scientific saviour?

    Donor organs are scarce, but should we use xenotransplantation and stem-cell technology to fill the gap? Martin Ince looks at efforts to help clarify the ethical complexities arising from scientific...

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  11. Reflections of a razor sharp mind

    In a note to Isaiah Berlin, who died in 1997, Henry Hardy writes about the experience of editing the letters of the renowned historian of ideas, philosopher and essayist Dear Isaiah , At last, the...

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  12. The return of the body snatchers

    The shadowy trade in body parts has been exposed in the wake of accusations that UCLA staff have illegally sold cadavers donated to science. Stephen Phillips reports It's the modern-day incarnation...

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  14. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a love story twice adapted for the opera: "I must begin by taking my reader back to the time in my...

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