Blair fails to woo animal researchers
A personal letter from the prime minister supporting animal research received a lukewarm response from scientists this week. Senior scientists from the Biosciences Federation wrote to Tony Blair last...
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European Commission focuses on human tissue engineering potential
Brussels, 22 January 2004 The European Commission published a report today on prospects for commercial and research activities in the field of human tissue engineering (regeneration of tissues)....
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Agenda of the Intermodal Questions and Networks ­ Galileo, 26 January 2004
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 Full text of Document 234/04 1. GALILEO Proposal for a Council Regulation on the establishment of structures for the management of the European satellite radionavigation...
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'PIVNET 2' brings high-tech flow measurement to industrial end users
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), a technique for measuring the displacement of particles in flow, can be used in a wide variety of applications. The EU-funded PIVNET 2 Thematic...
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Space: Leuven workshop to focus on European Space Policy and the media
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 A European Space Policy Workshop entitled 'Enlarging Space Policy Debate' will take place in Leuven, Belgium on 4 February 2004. Speakers will include European Astronaut Frank...
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Swiss research sees big future for nanotech diagnostics
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 Nanotechnology could play a major role in medical diagnostics by 2020, finding the causes of illness quicker, more accurately and earlier than ever before, a Swiss study...
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Irish Tánaiste calls for incentives to stop European brain drain to the US
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 Speaking in front of the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, External Trade and Research on 21 January, Mary Harney, Ireland's Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise...
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M&T network does its bit for EU enlargement
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 A network of three EU Member States and three future Member States is making an important contribution to the enlargement of the Union in the field of measurements and testing (...
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Europe's Rosetta mission faces further challenges
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 The Rosetta mission, Europe's bid to land a spacecraft on the surface of a comet, is in difficulty again, after technical concerns were raised about the flight readiness of the...
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European Parliament gives notice of call for scientific consultancy services
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 The European Parliament has published a prior information notice of a call for tenders for scientific consultancy services for its scientific and technological options...
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Fourth European breast cancer conference
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 The fourth annual European breast cancer conference will take place form 16 to 20 March in Hamburg, Germany. The conference is described by organisers as 'unique in encouraging...
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US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Recommends More Research of Methods to Confine GMO Traits
Brussels, 22 Jan 2004 In a January 20 press release, NAS said its National Research Council recommends that scientists develop additional biological confinement --- or "bioconfinement" -- methods and...
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Today's news
Blair whips lose confidence over top-up fees vote A downbeat warning that the government is heading for defeat in next Tuesday's vote on university top-up fees was delivered privately to the Cabinet...
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Kelly's last paper: WMD threat real
A previously unpublished paper by government scientist David Kelly has provided a fresh insight into his views about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq and revealed new fears that Russia has...
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In the news: Graham Zellick
The attorney-general's decision to review a decade of convictions relating to babies' deaths has put Graham Zellick, chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, in the spotlight. It will be the...