Establishment of an International Council for Science Regional Office for Africa
...tion of scientists from Sub-Saharan Africa in ICSU programmes and activities. It will also assist ICSU and its Unions in their strategic planning to ensure that African priorities are taken into account in setting the international agendas. Through collaboration with the international science community, the O...Reassuring findings from first study on sperm donor identification
...rmation. Said Dr Scheib: "A growing number of DI programmes offer the option, as in the US, of open-identity donors that is donors who allow their identities to be given to adult offspring. In Sweden, the Netherlands, and elsewhere, the law actually requires open identity and the UK will also require it from...More mobility for researchers in Europe
... Individual Grants Scheme, but also to coordinated programmes as long as it is compatible in each individual case with the overall project. If possible, the project should have at least another six months to run. If the project has not yet begun, the transfer can be limited to one year. The possibility of tran...... theory into practice in high-performance computer programmes that are already being used by a large number of research groups around the world. His work has been recognised with many national and international prizes, including the famous prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Internationa...Researchers go into action after Tsunami
British researchers have launched urgent research programmes in order to learn lessons from the recent Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster. Such knowledge is relevant to both UK, and overseas disaster assessment and prevention programmes. Funded by grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (...Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists
... very careful not to commit funds to costly repair programmes that may have little long-term effect. About 20 p...d over a long time." Poorly planned reconstruction programmes undertaken on the land can also adversely affect marine wildlife, say the scientists. Professional ...50,000 for German-Polish cooperation in the promotion of young researchers
...ic purpose that is within the scope of the funding programmes of both organisations. In doing so, the focus should be on further advancing the joint promotion of young researchers. Nominations will be accepted from 13 May through 15 October 2005. The first award ceremony will take place on 1 May 2006, the seco...From sound analysis to nicotine addiction
...he DFG Senate at its meeting on 12 March 2005. The programmes were selected from a total of 53 proposals and will receive approximately 48 million in funding in the first two years. This brings the number of Priority Programmes funded by the DFG to 98. Priority Programmes promote networking between research gro...Change in prenatal genetic testing could reduce detection rate of abnormalities
...g Committee (UKNSC) recommended that new screening programmes for Down's syndrome* do not have to include karyotyping--a process that generates a picture of a person's 23 chromosome pairs. Karyotyping can detect a range of numerical or structural genetic chromosome abnormalities, but can take up to 14 days to p...Study in Royal Society journal on world's only horned rodent
...e study also illustrates how voluntary vaccination programmes are essentially victims of their own success and the nonvaccinating behaviour of 'free-riders'. Contact: Dr C.T. Bauch, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, GUELPH, Canada...Size matters: Preventing large mammal extinction
...the mechanisms, we are able to tailor conservation programmes dependant on size, to ensure they're more effective." The study showed that extinction risk in smaller mammals, below approximately 3kg (about the weight of a small domestic cat), is determined primarily by the size and locations of their distributi...Is that lizard a basilisk? How Harry Potter sparks interest in the reptile house
...seizes the opportunities generated by films and TV programmes to encourage visitors to ask more and new questions about a species on display."...International move to train more forensic medicine and science experts
...ing and beneficial programme." The Masters Degrees programmes have evolved from an earlier collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh and Florida, where experts from Edinburgh delivered course material for students of forensic medicine and scientific evidence at the US University....Software 'agents' could help unmask reality of disease clusters
...ities being revealed. Agents are advanced software programmes that can be set a specific task but then given the...ercome some of these problems. Software agents are programmes that can respond to changes in their environment, generate and attempt to achieve goals, and have th...New GM mosquito sexing technique is step towards malaria control, report scientists
...dds: "Although there have been a number of control programmes to eradicate malaria, none of these have been entirely successful, and many have also had side effects, such as environmental damage through insecticides. This advance could one day make a major impact on the burden of ill health caused by malaria, a...ECCO 13 - One voice, one vision needed to overcome cancer in Europe
...cer Screening' recommending high quality screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer together with the series of 'EU Guidelines on Best Practice in Cancer Screening', which have been developed under the 'Europe Against Cancer Programme' and which are now followed up by the European Cancer Ne...New ECCO 13 data emphasise vital importance of cervical cancer detection, treatment and prevention
... education strategies and more efficient screening programmes to help and protect the young population. In addi... has decreased since the introduction of screening programmes around 9.84 deaths per 100,000 population (Northern Europe) and 10.18 per 100,000 population (Southe...Calls for improved screening of colorectal cancer in Europe's aging population at ECCO 13
...s priority. In many European countries, only pilot programmes for colorectal screening are in place and mechanisms to ensure adequate coverage of the target groups need to be evaluated. However, some countries, such as Germany, have successfully implemented screening programmes. European Council Recommendations...Life support services threatened, 700 experts urge more prominence of biodiversity on world agenda
...h and support ambitious interdisciplinary research programmes to explore the Earth's biodiversity, the ecological and socio-economic causes and consequences of its changes, and the best means to conserve and sustainably use it." Needed is "a properly resourced international scientific panel on biodiversity that...Swedish researchers warn university students face infertility
...selected randomly from students enrolled in degree programmes showed that 97% of the men and 96% of the women who did not have children did want them, with around 85% wanting two to three. (Thirty-two students had children already, or were pregnant). Men most often wanted two children. Women were evenly split b...