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US to clamp down on foreign researchers The Pentagon has alarmed some US scientists by proposing new restrictions on access to sensitive technology by foreign researchers. The large number of foreign...
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Patents: Commission adopts a second report on biotechnological inventions, covering gene patents and stem cells
Brussels, 18 July 2005 The European Commission has adopted a second report (COM(2005)312) to the Council and European Parliament covering developments and implications of patent law in the field of...
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Scientific Council of the European Research Council announced (plus link to members' biographies)
Brussels, 18 July 2005 Today the European Commission is announcing the names of the 22 eminent men and women who will be the founding members of the Scientific Council of the European Research...
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EFSA consults widely on risk assessment of GM Microorganisms - Comments by 15 September (link)
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has today launched an open consultation on its guidance document for the risk assessment of Genetically Modified Microorganisms (GMMs)...
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EFSA Opinions on applications for placing GMO maize varieties on the market (links)
Brussels, 15 July 2005 Opinion of the GMO Panel on an application for the placing on the market of insect-protected glyphosate-tolerant genetically modified maize MON863 x MON810 x NK603, for food...
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EFSA launches public consultation on post-market environmental monitoring of GM Plants
Brussels, 15 July 2005 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has today opened a public consultation on the Post Market Environmental Monitoring (PMEM) of Genetically Modified (GM) Plants. In a...
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Reding targets closer EU-US cooperation for improved Internet governance
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding has used a speech to the European Institute in Washington to call for closer cooperation between the EU and US to...
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Expert panel recommends FP7 funds for COST
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 An expert panel has recommended that the European Commission release the foreseen 80 million euro to COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research...
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ALCHEMY group: chaos governing computers?
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 One might think that the complex microchips that govern modern computers behave in a precise, predetermined way. According to he ALCHEMY research group at the French National...
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ESO continues to assess data from Tempel 1 mission
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 Ten days after part of the NASA Deep Impact spacecraft plunged into Comet Tempel 1 with the aim of creating a crater and exposing untouched material from beneath the surface,...
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EFIS conference: signal and signal processing in the immune system
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 Under the auspices of the European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS), the 13th Symposium on Signals and Signal Processing in the Immune System will take place in...
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EU-JAPAN industrial and environmental biotechnology summit, Japan
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 The EU-JAPAN Industrial & Environmental Biotechnology (IEB) Summit will take place in Yokohama, Japan, from 3 to 9 September. Organised by EuropaBio and the Japan...
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Strategies for European leadership in software and services industry - call for tenders
Brussels, 18 Jul 2005 The Commission's Information Society and Media DG has published a call for tenders relating to a study of the strategies, policies and other conditions needed to allow the...
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Foreign scientists barred amid terror fears Security services have barred more than 200 foreign scientists from studying at British universities over the past four years, amid fears they could...
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Northcote Graduate Scholarship
Deadline: 01/09/2005