EU funds development of new cancer therapies
Brussels, 20 Sep 2002 Two EU funded research projects developing new therapies for cancer were presented at the conference 'Towards greater coherence in European cancer research' in Brussels on 19...
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Busquin hopes to overcome cancer research fragmentation
Brussels, 20 Sep 2002 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin supported the creation of a European cancer research area when speaking at a Brussels conference on 19 September. Mr Busquin believes...
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Report underlines difficulty of benchmarking scientific productivity
Brussels, 20 Sep 2002 A report published by the European Commission has highlighted the difficulty of measuring scientific and technological productivity. The study follows up on a call from the...
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Ethics forum to examine scientific publishing on the Internet
Brussels, 20 Sep 2002 With the support of EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin, the University Foundation is organising an ethics forum with the title 'Free access to truth? Scientific...
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World congress on railway research
Brussels, 20 Sep 2002 The World congress on railway research will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 28 September to 1 October 2003. The event will focus on tackling problems and assessing new...
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Restructuring of the JRC senior management
Brussels, 20 Sep 2002 Senior Staff Mobility - A new impulse in view of the start of the new Framework Programme "In planning the restructuring, I took many factors into account, important among those...
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Antimatter is a reality: Commission welcomes CERN's breakthrough in antihydrogen production
Brussels, 19 September 2002 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin today congratulated Geneva-based CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) for producing a substantial amount of...
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A levels may be scrapped A levels could be scrapped in the wake of the grade-fixing scandal, according to the education minister Estelle Morris. The exam...
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European stem cell research restrictions impact on Indian regulations
Brussels, 19 Sep 2002 Restrictive embryo research regulations in some European countries and the USA have led to a ban on the export of all human embryonic material in India due to fears that the...
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The feasibility of hydrogen as a long term transport fuel
Brussels, 19 Sep 2002 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a call for tenders for a study on the potential of hydrogen as a fuel for transport in the long term (2020 to...
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Internal Market, Competitiveness, Industry, Research Council of 30 Sep, provisional agenda
Copenhagen, 19 Sep 2002 DATE: MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2002 TIME: 10.00 1. Adoption of the agenda 2. (poss.) Approval of the list of "A" items 3. (a) The new Competitiveness Council - Information from the...
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Commission supports creation of a European cancer research area
Brussels, 19 September 2002 How to build greater coherence in European cancer research is the key question to be debated at a conference in Brussels today, which brings together around 250...
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GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) in food and feed at the Council meeting (Agriculture and Fisheries) on 23 and 24 September
Copenhagen, 19 Sep 2002 In July 2001, the EU Commission put forward a proposal for a European Parliament and Council regulation on genetically modified food and feed ( COM(2001) 425 final). The...
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ESA satellite imagery credited with breakthrough in earthquake research
Paris, 19 Sep 2002 California scientists credit synthetic aperture radar imagery from the European Space Agency with making possible new ways to depict earthquake fault zones and uncovering unusual...
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ESA to search for life, but not as we know it
Paris, 19 Sep 2002 This week, astrobiologists are discussing what ESA's Huygens spaceprobe might discover when it parachutes to the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon, Titan, in 2005. Titan...