Denmark makes national Open Access commitment
...ment to Open Access. Denmark's decision follows an announcement last month that Norway has agreed a national membership with BioMed Central. In May 2004, Finland became the first entire country to sign up for BioMed Central membership for all of its 25000 publicly funded researchers....TWAS, illycaff launch Trieste Science prize
...cers, have launched the Trieste Science Prize. The announcement took place last month at the TWAS 15th General Meeting in Trieste, Italy. The prize, which carries a US$50,000 cash award, is designed to honour the most eminent scientists in the developing world. The first two prizes will be awarded in 2005 in the ...University of Arizona receives IBM grant for massive virtual storage system for life sciences data
...f business value and computing infrastructure. The announcement also complements IBM's comprehensive storage strategy, allowing customers to manage information throughout its life, simplify their infrastructures, and provide back-up and recovery for data....BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health public access policy
BioMed Central welcomes the announcement of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) new public access policy. The NIH calls on all of its grantees to deposit articles resulting from their NIH-funded research in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central and make them freely availa...Salk polio vaccine celebrates 50th anniversary
...y, went on its way to defeat 50 years ago with the announcement of the first safe and effective polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk and supported by the March of Dimes. The menace of death or paralysis from polio, a viral infection that affected mostly children, caused widespread fear and panic in the Uni...Monaco formalises its EUREKA membership in Paris
...nuary 2005, together with San Marino, following an announcement at the EUREKA Ministerial Conference in Paris in June 2004. Despite its small size, Monaco is keen to co-operate internationally and is setting up EUREKA structures to support research and development (R&D). Monaco is establishing a dedicated 2 milli...OneWorld Health receives multimillion dollar grant for next steps in control of deadly disease
...nufacture paromomycin at an affordable cost. This announcement was made at the 3rd International Congress on Leishmaniasis held in Palermo, Sicily, this week, as OneWorld Health investigators were presenting positive results for paromomycin following the completion last November of the largest Phase III clinical...Re-discovered ivory billed woodpecker still faces challenge to survival
...ildlife Refuge Association (NWRA) today hailed the announcement in today's Science Express that a thought-to-be extinct ivory-billed woodpecker has been discovered at Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas, but expressed concern about its chances for survival. "Although the re-discovery of the ivory-bi...STN AnaVist is powerful new analysis & visualization software
...ons. The co-operators of the STN network made the announcement today during the PIUG annual meeting in Alexandria, Virignia. STN InternationalSM is the premier online service for science and technology, offering a collection of more than 220 high-quality online databases. STN is currently used by thousands of o...Public release of pig genomic sequences
... led by scientists from USA and UK. A simultaneous announcement will also be made by SGSC and the Alliance for Animal Genome Research (AAGR) in support of this public release. DCTBP represents the world leading Danish pig breeders and global exporters of pig products. Denmark, with a population of only 5.4 milli...Paul Barber, BU biologist, receives Presidential Early Career Award for research endeavors
...he Cash Room of the Department of Treasury. In his announcement letter to Barber, Marburger noted that PECASE recipients were selected on the basis of a "combination of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and community service demonstrated through scientific leadership and community out...NIH awards $10.4 million to Scripps Research Institute and Scripps Florida
...ntal in the creation of Scripps Florida. "Today's announcement is a testament to the dynamic synergy that exists between The Scripps Research Institute/Scripps Florida and our national objectives to cure disease and improve human health. I am proud of Scripps Florida, its scientists, and the Florida support org......ases in tiger numbers in other parts of Asia. The announcement also comes just a few months after WCS conservationists learned the Olga, a 14-year-old Siberian tiger had been killed by poachers, after scientists had been continuously monitoring her whereabouts from more than a decade. To determine numbers of tig...New bipolar survey: Patients' satisfaction influenced
... bipolar mania symptoms, as a single agent. 8 The announcement of these landmark survey results coincides with other important data presented at the WCBP, which address the clinical benefits that SEROQUEL offers bipolar disorder consumers. The preliminary data show that patients with bipolar depression taking S...Protein structure initiative advances to rapid production phase
With the announcement of 10 new research centers, the Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) launches the second phase of its national effort to find the three-dimensional shapes of a wide range of proteins. This structural information will help reveal the roles that proteins...Melbourne scientists part of Gates Foundation US $21 million hunt for malaria therapy
...lopment of the world's first malaria vaccine. The announcement of the research and grant was made at the start of...l in the fight against the disease. The Gates/FNIH announcement is recognition of Australia's preeminence in paraistology research. In recognition of the growing im...Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
...marine discoveries in the far north coincides with announcement of seed funds for a matching effort in the Antarctic. The 30-day "Hidden Ocean" expedition ( http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov ), funded and coordinated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, an agency of the US Department ...8th World Wilderness Congress begins next month
...s areas already exist globally, this unprecedented announcement may spark an entirely new way of protecting land in the Americas. The announcements, which have a strong Texas and Latin American angle, will be made on Saturday, October 1. GUEST SPEAKERS More than 50 high-profile and senior-level political and ...Prominent ecologists to discuss results of world's largest international ecological meeting
... half day ESA-INTECOL conference. There will be an announcement from the presidents of some of the world's major ecological societies, as well as a question and answer period for those in attendance. The meeting summary will take place from 11 00 to 11 30 hrs on 12 August 2005 in room 445 A of the Palais des con......odpecker's continued existence. Since the April 28 announcement of the bird's rediscovery in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Departments of the Interior and of Agriculture have announced a multiyear, multimillion-dollar partnership to protect the bird's habitat. This includes more than $10 million in federal funds to ...