PGD could save women from the agony of repeated miscarriages
...e women's wombs. Ms Rubio, co-ordinator of the PGD programme at the Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad, Valencia, Spain, said: "We know already that non-inherited abnormalities in the number of chromosomes is a common cause of miscarriage and that embryos which fail to implant successfully during IVF and ICS...Max-Planck doctoral student discovers 'living fossils'
...re plans to propose it for UNESCO's World Heritage programme because of the unique rock drawings found there. The area may be entered only with permission, which is particularly important for the protection of the new insect order from bio-piracy. It turned out that scientists from the University of Leeds and ...EMBO gets US$ 2 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support young scientists
...mising young researchers in the life sciences. The programme offers a three year membership, providing a number of benefits, such as mentorship, opportunities for networking and an award of Euro 15 000 annually. Additional funds can be obtained from a pool of Euro 500 000. The distinction as EMBO Young Investi...Announcing the March 1st, 2002 publication of the Fourth Edition of Molecular Biology of the Cell
... in its approach, the prose is consistent, the art programme pedagogically robust whilst beautiful to look at. In this new edition the authors have spent much time reflecting on the developments in biology over the last eight years, and thus have considered with equal importance not only what to put in but wh...Prizes awarded in the 2002 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme
...sion, the DFG nominating committee for the Leibniz programme has above all selected those scientists and scholars of whom it expects that additional funding will raise their performance. With todays decision, the total number of scientists and scholars supported by the Leibniz Programme has increased to 197. O...A parvovirus may be linked to infertility in men say German scientists
...en of 73 men who were participating in a fertility programme and 22 men with no history of infertility who had given semen samples for reasons unconnected to fertility. AAV is a common virus that is found in the genital tissues and infection usually takes place when a child is in the womb, during childhood, o...Europe and United States assess international support of science in Russia and Ukraine
...l stability. The Royal Society has a long standing programme with Russia and Ukraine from which outstanding research has emerged. The conference was held at the Royal Society in London, England on October 22-23, 2001. Additional information on the conference is available at http://www.crdf.org/conference2001...Purple potato boost for organic food industry
...d's contribution to a 3.5m European Union research programme called Blight-Mop, in which many new varieties of ...romising candidates may yet emerge as the research programme continues. Professor Leifert points out that the variety still has to pass the taste-test and admits...Cutting the risk of coronary disease - start before birth says UK doctor
...in at birth." A number of maternal influences that programme the foetus had now been identified, he said, including the mother's body composition before and during pregnancy and her diet in pregnancy. Foetal growth was usually limited by the nutrients and oxygen received from the mother and that depended on th...Beyond global warming: Where on Earth are we going?!
...ional, interdisciplinary non-governmental research programme situated at the interface between the social and natural sciences. IHDP research focuses on topics critical for the understanding of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. These comprise the causes and consequences of people's individua...New research confirms that natural selection is acting on the current human population
...inking this work with the possibility of a eugenic programme for selective human breeding. Looking to the future, I would expect to pick up genetic changes within the ten generations (6) since industrialisation. However, what this work doesnt indicate or find, is a genetic marker for human reproduction - so yo...DFG set up 19 new Graduiertenkollegs
...plications supplementing the international funding programme "Promotion an Hochschulen in Deutschland" (PHD), which is run jointly by the DFG and the DAAD. Applications for doctoral candidate and graduate grants could then be transmitted specially for junior scientists from abroad. Enabling students to partici...New research aims to help rowers take the strain off their backs
...ow set to benefit from a novel scientific research programme into rowing technique based at Imperial College that will follow the development of this system. Some researchers have speculated that the introduction of a modern rowing style which emphasises the drive off the legs, may impact spinal loading greate...DFG establishes 23 new graduiertenkollegs (university graduate training programmes)
...who usually work within an often interdisciplinary programme of research and studies organized by professors particularly distinguished in teaching and research. These programmes are acquiring an increasingly international character. At present, around ten per cent of all doctoral students in Germany are worki...Europe leads the world for IVF treatment
...e important that we have a valid and comprehensive programme for Europe," Dr Karl Nygren told the ESHRE conference. The ESHRE consortium of IVF researchers collected IVF data from 18 European countries, which were all running registers on their IVF results. This first report, prepared for the consortium by ...DFG to launch 21 new priority programmes
...itutions and research areas. As a rule, a priority programme is promoted for a period of six years. The new programmes in detail: HUMANITIES In the priority programme Executive Functions, psychologists and medical scientists look at how human cognitive processing is ...Cell division study aids cancer drug search
...iferation." This research contributes to a larger programme of work identifying targets for drug development being carried out by Prolifix Ltd, the UK-based cell cycle company. Professor La Thangue is chief scientific officer of the company, which has a unique understanding of how the cel...DFG to set up 21 new collaborative research centres in 2000
...initiatives for the collaborative-research-centres programme remains as high as ever. More competition means that a growing number of applications for the institution of collaborative research centres are being rejected, in all 10 from the last 31. Equally stringent criteria are also being applied to extending...Biodiversity yields dividends, finds pan-European research
...Terrestrial Herbaceous Ecosystems) is an EU-funded programme as part of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Initiative (TERI). A team of 34 scientists from 8 European countries participated in this study, establishing a network of European field sites in natural and semi-natural plant communities along a North-...Cleaner air and less acidification among proposals for new environmental goals
... is needed for the preservation of wet forest anda programme ofmeasures for the care of fertile fens....