European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
The Forward Look scheme, the European Science Foundation (ESF)s strategic flagship instrument that aims to formulate science agendas and policies with Europes best interest in mind, has initiated and nurtured 13 foresight exercises that help develop medium- to long-term perspectives on future directions of multidisciplinary research in Europe. The instrument, which was originated from the ESF St...Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
... ... Tuna Past...The UAB heads a European research project on proteases and pathological processes
... The project has a...Journalists can register now for ECCO 14 -- the European Cancer Conference
... ... ECCO is recognised as one of the worlds leading multidisciplinary cancer conferences and provides a unique European forum for presentations of exciting new research from experimental and clinical oncologists, epidemiologists and cance...Europe struggles to meet the challenges posed by PGD patients travelling abroad
... Mr James Lawford Davies, a solicitor specialising in reproductive and genetic technologies, told the 23rd annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Monday 2 July) that the main reason couples travelled to other countries was because PGD was banned in their own. However, this led to concerns ov...Ossur one of Europe's 500 fastest growing companies
OCTOBER 17, 2005 (BRUSSELS, BELGIUM) For the fourth time since 1996, Ossur, a trusted and leading global supplier of prosthetic and orthotic devices, has made the ranks of Europe's fastest growing companies. Ossur was listed No. 185 in 2005 Europe's 500, the annual ranking of high growth, job-creating companies published by Europe's 500 Entrepreneurs for Growth, and supported by Microsoft and K...Major study predicts grim future for Europe's seas
... In every sea, we found serious damage related to the accelerated pace of coastal developme...Climate changes brews trouble for marine life in European Seas, Marine Board-ESF report says
... The latest European Science Foundation-Marine Board study report, "Impact of climate change on European marine and coastal environment - Ecosystem approach" shows how even moderate climate scenarios have...Mellow in Europe, crazy in America
... Similarly, the reed canarygrass is well-settled in its native European range, not pushing out other species or expanding its terrain. But, introduced into the United States, it's running amok ecologically, choking out native plants in wetlands. Once praised as a fine forage crop, the grass is now considered an invasive pest in about ten s...Early Europeans unable to stomach milk
... In a study, published in the journal 'PNAS', the team shows that the gene that controls our ability to digest milk was missing from Neolithic skeletons dating to between 5840 and 5000 BC. However, through exposure to milk, lactose tolerance evolved extremely rapidly, in evolutionary terms. Today, it is present in over ninety per cent of the population of northern Europe and is also found in...European launch of International Polar Year 2007-2008
... ... The polar r...IDIBAPS participates in European Network on antibiotic resistances and hospital infections
...... ) is the first European-scale work devoted to the control and study of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals. MOSAR is coordinated by the Institut national de la sant e de la recherche mdicale (INSERM, Christian Brun-Buisson, unit 657 "Pharmaco-epidemiology and assessment of the impact of health products on populations"), and has about 20 public and...European approval of HIV drug darunavir will provide a potent new option with Fuzeon
Basel (CH), 16 February 2007. Today's conditional marketing authorisation in the European Union of the new protease inhibitor (PI) darunavir (boosted with ritonivir) provides physicians with the opportunity to build a potent new treatment combination with the fusion inhibitor, FUZEON. The combination of FUZEON and boosted darunavir has been shown to give treatment-experienced patients a better c...European launch of International Polar Year 2007-2008
EVENT: European launch of International Polar Year 2007-2008... DATE: Monday, 26 February 2007... TIME: 10 am to 17:30 pm... ... ... ... On 26 February 2007, Europe formally launches its contribution to the largest and most ambitious internationally coordinated scientific effort for 50 years....European Federation of Biotechnology and Elsevier announce launch of biotechnology journal
... Editor-in-Chief of the journal will be John Hodgson who was Editor of Tr...Putting a face on the earliest modern Europeans
... An international team of researchers, including Hlene Rougier, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow, and Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology, at Washington University in St. Louis, has been studying a 35,000-year-old cranium discovered in the Pestera cu Oase, in western Romania. The fossil specimen is the earliest largely...European Union outpaces United States on chemical safety
with Henrik Selin, an assistant professor of international relations at Boston University, analyzing the ripple ef...EMBO Installation Grants help scientists get set up in Europe
... EMBO Installation Grants are financed entirely by the EMBC Member States hosting the grantees. Each scientist will receive 50,000 euro annually for three to five years, giving th...First-time analysis reveals millions of Europeans left at risk from influenza
... For the first time, researchers have attempted to develop a model to enable European public health officials to visualise the need for better influenza control and implement the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations...Europe's best young group leaders win EMBO support
... The aim is to raise the profile of the young investigators and help them to attract new collaborations and funding. Gerlind Wallon, manager of the programme, explains: "The EMBO Young Investigator Programme offe...Europe's leading life science researchers are to convene for the first annual EuroBioForum
Europe's leading life science researchers are to convene for the first annual EuroBioForum in Helsinki, Finland 14-15 December to discuss how to move forward on life science topics ranging from the production of hydrogen via artificial photosynthesis to learning how to survive without water. ...... In addition to providing a platform for key scientists to present proposals, EuroBioForum, organis...Call for Europe to lead in revitalizing family planning agenda in world's poorest countries
... ... Professor Cleland and his co-authors assert that investment in family planning should have a higher priority than inv...Europe should lead in promoting family planning in poor countries
... ... ... ... The auth...Scientists identify 36 genes, 100 neuropeptides in honey bee brains
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- From humans to honey bees, neuropeptides control brain activity and, hence, our behaviors. Understanding the roles these peptides play in the life of a honey bee will assist researchers in understanding the roles they play in their human counterparts.... There are a million neurons in the brain of a honey bee (Apis mellifera), a brain not much larger than the size of the perio...EURYI to showcase the future of European science in Prague
... On 13th October, at the 3rd European Young Investigator Award (EURYI) Ceremony, twenty-five young researchers from all over Europe will meet in the Czech Republic to receive a diploma and a guarantee of project funding of as much as 1.25 million for their research ideas which have the potential to have a significant impact on our e...Large European survey reveals critical gaps in breast cancer patient education and communication
... "Our survey shows that information provided to patients about adj...Meet Europe's top neurobiologists in Leuven, Belgium
Leuven, Belgium − From 2 - 6 September, some 370 neurobiologists from 25 countries will gather in Leuven to address the state of affairs of current research. A great deal of attention will be paid to the use of the fruit fly (Drosophila) for gaining greater insight into various processes in the brain and the nervous system. Patrick Callaerts and Bassem Hassan, scientists from VIB (the Flan...Americans less likely to accept evolution than Europeans
... ... ... For example, i...2006 European Young Investigator Awards
This October, at the 3rd Annual EURYI Award Ceremony, twenty-five researchers will receive awards which will enable them to create research teams in Europe to focus on cutting-edge science research.... ... The list of the 2006 Awardee...European airborne campaign simulates Sentinel imagery over land
... The Sentinel satellite series, which are being developed by ESA in support of the European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme (GMES), will meet the needs of the user in a variety of appli...A boost for European Life Sciences as ESF launch EuroBioFund
The European Science Foundation will today launch a new initiative to help promote and coordinate direct interaction among European life sciences researchers and funders: EuroBioFund. ... The life sciences encompass research fields that have a direct impact on our quality of our health, food and environment including pharmaceuticals, genetics, systems biology and biotechnology. Now, in the post-...European commission earmarks 12 million for plant growth research
Ghent, Belgium − Plants are invaluable sources of food, medicine, renewable materials and energy. But we still know relatively little about the biological processes that make them grow. The European Commission is devoting 12 million to AGRON-OMICS, a plant research consortium spearheaded by Pierre Hilson and Dirk Inz of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and Ghen...Climate change may threaten species of amphibians and reptiles in southwestern Europe
Projected climate change could trigger massive range contractions among amphibian and reptile species in the southwest of Europe, according to a new study published in the Journal of Biogeography. Arajo et al. projected distributions of 42 amphibian and 66 reptile species 20-50 years into the future under four emission scenarios proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and two di...Joint European strategy for industrial biotechnology
The cooperation must result in a harmonization of the currently fragmented national research policies, the implementation of a joint strategy and coordination of new international research programmes in the area of industrial biotechnology. To achieve this the network will be supported by the European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (ETP-SusChem) and by the European Association for...Free access to world-class biological databases for European science thanks to FELICS
Today the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's (EMBL) European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB), the University of Cologne, Germany, and the European Patent Office launch FELICS (Free European Life-science Information and Computational Services). The new project coordinated by the EBI will give researchers unrestricted access to some of the world's...European Columbus laboratory for ISS ready for delivery
The Columbus laboratory is Europe's cornerstone contribution to the International Space Station. Final integration has been successfully completed in Bremen. Columbus will be shipped to Cape Canaveral at the end of May, from where it will be flown on a Space Shuttle to the ISS in the second half of 2007....... During its planned 10-year operational lifetime, scientific researchers in Europe, with...Researchers trawl the origins of sea fishing in Northern Europe
For decades the study of fish bones was considered one of the most esoteric branches of archaeology, but now it is helping to reveal the massive significance of the fishing trade in the Middle Ages. ...... New research co-ordinated by archaeologists at the University of York will spotlight the earliest development of Europe's sea fisheries and, given the continuous expansion of sea fishing since...Prestigious European prize for NIOZ researcher
Prof. Gerhard J. Herndl of the NWO institute Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) on Texel has won the 2006 EUR-OCEANS Roland Wollast Prize for Scientific Achievements. He has received the prize during the general meeting of the EUR-OCEANS Network from 15 to 16 March in Barcelona. Gerhard J. Herndl is the first winner of this honourable Roland Wollast prize. ...... Professor Gerhar...Through a satellite darkly: Night views of European seas improve ESA ocean heat map
The Mediterranean looks better in the dark - at least in the view of an ESA-led effort to use satellites to take the daily temperature of Europe's seas. A switch to data acquired at night is one of several improvements undertaken to enhance reliability and reach of Medspiration project outputs....... With sea surface temperature (SST) an important variable for weather and ocean forecasting - and...In response to the European Commission's launch of a Communication to the European Council on developing a knowledge flagship: the European Institute of Technology, MEPs Prof. Jerzy Buzek and Dr. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis called for stronger links between the innovation, research and business communities. ...... According to Dr. Chatzimarkakis the EIT is now foreseen as a network - linking the best de...