The right fuel for Russian research
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 Amid little fanfare but great expectations, Russia has launched its first-ever commercially oriented research and development centre. A priority at the institute-cum-incubator...
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Increased spending on higher education is vital for growth, says Reding
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 EU Commissioner for Education and Culture, Viviane Reding, claimed that Europe is lagging behind the US in matters of university funding, as she launched the new EU programme...
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JRC calls for data collection on non-animal reproductive toxicity testing
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has issued a call for tenders for data collection for the European centre for the validation of alternative methods (ECVAM...
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X-ray shout echoing through space
Paris, 28 Jan 2004 ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has imaged a spectacular set of rings which appear to expand, with a speed a thousand times faster than that of light, around the point in the...
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Artificial island arises off Dubai
Paris, 28 Jan 2004 The rapidly changing face of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is portrayed by contrasting Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken less than four years apart, most notably as a...
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Taxpayers face £900m tuition bill for EU students Students from other EU countries will benefit from the same fee remission arrangements as those in England under the government's higher education...
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GMOs: Commission takes stock of progress
Brussels, 28 January 2004 The European Commission today held an orientation debate on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and related issues to take stock of the progress made over the last years...
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State of play on GMO authorisations under EU law
Brussels, 28 January 2004 Existing approvals Under the rules on the deliberate release of GMOs into the environment (Directive 2001/18/EC and previously Directive 90/220/EC ) so far 18 GMOs have been...
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Question and Answers on the regulation of GMOs in the EU (link)
Brussels, 28 January 2004 What are GMOs and GMMs? Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically modified micro-organisms (GMMs) can be defined as organisms (and micro-organisms) in which the...
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OECD Highlights Importance of Public Sector Research, calls for Reforms
Paris, 28 Jan 2004 Urgent action is needed on the part of many OECD governments to make the public research sector more involved in innovative activities, more responsive to social needs and more...
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Commission funds the creation of a virtual institute for genome annotation
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 The European Commission has established a new 12 million euro Network of Excellence (NoE) called BioSapiens, which comprises a virtual institute for genome annotation and a...
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Parliament committee approves creation of centre for disease prevention and control
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 The European Parliament's Environment and Public Health Committee has adopted a report on a Commission proposal for the creation of a European centre for disease prevention and...
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'Plans for primate research centre dropped' Plans for a new primate research centre have been dropped by Cambridge University, partly because of the expected cost of protecting it from animal rights...
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Blair narrowly wins the higher education bill vote The prime minister escaped humiliation by just five votes last night as he scraped to victory over university tuition fees and narrowly survived the...