Astronauts blame their space station symptoms on bad air
...fter the landing," says Frank Culbertson, a deputy programme managerfor the space station. Although NASA officials don't believe there's a serious problem, theyare planning to install air quality monitoring equipment before the firstpermanent crew arrives at the station sometime after March next year....New computer programme could help assess cancer risks
... risk assessment in genetics' (RAGs) is a computer programme which draws pedigrees, assesses risk based on a fa...ost of the doctors involved in the study found the programme easy to use and that it enabled them to tackle the complex area of assessing genetic risk with their...Salmon Syndrome M74: Cause Still A Mystery
... in the Baltic sea. Even ifthisparticular research programme has come to an end, it is important that suchresearchcontinues", says Bengt-Erik Bengtsson. Baltic sea trout, which is a relative of salmon, is also affected by M74.Reproductiveproblems in Baltic cod can, however, be explained by poor oxygen conditi...Protestors Are Up In Arms Over Experiments That Give Chimps AIDS
..., head of preclinical research in the AIDS vaccine programme ofthe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) nearWashington DC. "The bad news is that to do meaningful vaccine experiments, wewill have to put chimps' lives at risk." The NIAID is now funding Novembre to expose up to fo...Quicker Implementation Of Research Results
...n DM 30 million. In 1994, the Centres ofExcellence programme was developed specifically for the new federal sta...ring thestructure and control of the embryogenesis programme and the cellular andmolecular effects of oxidative stress. At the same time, scientists hope toident...Persistent Organic Pollutants, The Danger Is Not Over
...mmends the project group heading the research programme on persistent organic pollutants and which has advised the production of the Monitor 16 report. Briefs from Monitor 16: Reduced levels of toxic pollutants For several years, levels of DDT, PCBs, dioxins and he...DFG To Set Up 14 New Collaborative Research Centres
...e development of the collaborative research centre programme the ScienceCouncil pronounced this 30-year-old funding instrument highly successful and indispensablefor university research and emphatically recommended that it should be continued. Humanities and social sciences The new collaborative research cen...DFG To Fund Six New Research Units
...c theme requires interdisciplinary cooperation.The programme is designed to help establish new lines of research work which as yet havenot, or only insufficiently, been pursued in Germany. What is the role played in our society by norms, what is considered normal? This is thequestion nine scientists at Dortmun...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
...up 32 new postgraduate research groups. Under this programme the DFG has been promoting - since 1990 - especial...ewable energy sources. The main focus of the study programme will be on energy management and the utilisation of wind and solar energy. The creative process of t...Consumer-Oriented Environmental Policy Unsuccessful
...he Sustainability & Environmental Quality research programme run by theNetherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The study examinedpatterns of consumption in the Netherlands since the 1950s. Environmental policy has certainly led to significant changes in the way peopledispose of household wast...Homocysteine: A Possible Risk Factor For Alzheimer's Disease
...own on Channel 4 in the UK on April 21 and 28. The programme outlinedthe methods and main achievements of OPTIMA, including: Development of an accurate diagnostic procedure for Alzheimer's disease in lifeby a combination of structural and functional brain imaging. Discovery of a biological `state' marker, t......EuRam research collaboration. The core of this new programme will develop new sensor technologies which will be...of Rome. Part of Warwick's research input to the programme will be to develop Warwick's work on its famous "electronic nose" to develop highly sophisticated se...