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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is funding with Euro 6.4 million a new European Union network of research teams tasked with using new IT to fight major diseases such as cancer, brain and cardiovascular illnesses and diabetes. The BIOPATTERN project will amass and analyse data looking for fresh ways of diagnosing and treating these conditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Department of Energy (DoE) “is set to cancel work” on its six-year-old FIRE (fusion ignition research experiment), the European Commission is predicting. Its research directorate general was convinced by Anne Davies – DoE fusion energy office director – branding FIRE’s copper magnets “dead end technology”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WINE production waste – or pomace – the seeds, skin and stems of crushed grapes, could be commercially developed as a natural inhibitor against several types of bacteria, a new study has claimed. Research by Turkish academics published in the UK-based Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, showed that pomace has high concentrations of antioxidants which, when mixed with methanol in concentrations ranging from 0.5% to 20%, prevented the growth of 14 types of bacteria including E-coli, salmonella, staphylococcus aureus and enterobacter aerogenes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to lend Euro 15 million to NPO Petrovax Pharm, a Russian niche pharmaceutical company, so it can build a green field plant near Moscow making new generation influenza vaccines for the ex-USSR market.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIAN scientists claim they have made a mineral-recycling breakthrough that should save the Australian metals and minerals sector an estimated A$295 (US$208) million in costs. The private-public project coordinated by the AJ Parker Cooperative Research Centre for Hydrometallurgy in Perth, Western Australia, boasts a fundamental advance in the understanding of processes for separating fine particles from water, produced new insights into the behaviour of flocculants, substances used to clump and separate particles from water.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IT might be one of the world’s smallest countries but you could hardly ask for a more emphatic turnaround from villain to hero in the fight against money laundering than Liechtenstein has managed over the last five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CAMPAIGN to reduce the growing number of collisions between road vehicles and deer on Britain’s roads has called on both drivers and highways officials to deal with this potentially deadly risk.

The Deer Initiative estimates that between 30,000 and 50,000 deer are hit by cars, vans and lorries in the UK annually, with 10-20 people being killed in such accidents.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Commission is pressing ahead with the EU’s GRID project by making a grant of 52 million euros to fund 12 new research projects which Brussels said were designed to bring GRID networked computing “out of research labs and into industry.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) network of research institutions investigating the safety and health effects of phytoestrogens has been created by the European Commission; called Phytohealth, it will especially check whether phytoestrogens prevent cancer. The compounds are found in plant foods, such as beans, cabbage, flax seed, rye, berries, grains and soya products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released results from a research project examining the burial of radioactive waste in rock salt. The Bambus II project examined the design and construction of chambers, considering the effectiveness of materials in securing waste, including surrounding rock, the crushed salt and container metals.…