EMBO Gold Medal 2004 goes to Spanish scientist
The 2004 winner of the EMBO Gold Medal is Mara Blasco, Director of the Molecular Oncology Program at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncolgicas (CNIO) in Madrid. The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually to an outstanding young scientist for exceptional research carried out within Europe. Maria Blasco receives the award in recognition of her landmark work in the area of telomeres*. The scien...Spanish scientists develop powerful tool for exploration and integration of biological information
Robert Hoffmann and Alfonso Valencia of the Spanish National Center of Biotechnology (CNB/CSIC) in Madrid have developed a new web-based tool called iHOP (Information Hyperlinked over Proteins) to help researchers explore scientific literature and integrate information in a more controlled and targeted manner. ... ...Reporting in the Nature Genetics journal (Nature Genetics 36, 664, 01 Jul 2004),...Return to space for Spanish ESA astronaut
Duque, a member of ESA's astronaut corps since 1992, becomes the sixth European, and first Spaniard, to visit and work on the International Space Station. ... ...His mission takes its name from Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), author of Don Quixote. The main purpose of this 10-day mission is to carry out an extensive scientific programme comprising a series of experiments in the fields of life an...Spanish fertility experts bring hope of avoiding serious complication of assisted reproduction
Madrid, Spain: Research by Spanish fertility experts is bringing new hope to women of avoiding a serious complication of assisted reproduction ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) .... ...In its severest form, which requires urgent medical treatment, the syndrome affects around 200 women a year in Spain and as many as 2,000 a year in Europe. OHSS occurs when a woman's ovaries go into overdri...Envisats ASAR reveals extent of massive oil spill off Spanish coast
Oil from the wrecked tanker off the northwest coast of Spain had already reached the Spanish coast when ESA's Envisat satellite acquired this radar image of the oil slick, stretching more than 150 km, on Sunday, 17 November, at 10.45 UTC.... ...The 26-year-old tanker, Prestige, can be seen as a bright white point located about 100 km off the coast. Support vessels are identifiable as smaller whi...Natural repellant in Spanish cedar leaves could help tropical forests
... ............Washington, D.C. - Naturally occurring substances that appear to repel a...leaf-eating insect pest have been found in the leaves of Spanish cedar trees,...according to results of a study by British researchers published in the Sept. 24...issue of the Journal of Natural Products, a peer-reviewed journal of the...American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. .....Zinc In Sludge From Spanish Reservoir Break Equals Mine's Annual Output, Researchers Find
............River Water Almost As Acidic As Vinegar, Columbia Team Says ...... Researchers from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory...believe that the collapse last spring of a retaining wall holding tailings from...a Spanish zinc mine has dumped an amount of zinc into rivers nearly equal to the...mine"s total annual output. ... The accident last April 25 at th...