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BY ALAN OSBORN
WHEN a local pizza parlour goes bust, or the site of a planned hotel complex is suddenly left abandoned or interest rates suddenly shoot up for no apparent reason, we don’t normally blame money launderers. Perhaps we should though.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ZERO Emissions Research Initiative – helping Africa sustainably exploit local biological resources – is examining using ganoderma mushrooms as medicines, possibly for HIV/AIDS. It is also considering exports of Termitomyces titanicus, the world’s largest edible umbrella mushroom and the Congo basin’s edible goliath frog.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) network of excellence on prion disease research was launched last week (May 28) at a conference in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France. Involving 52 laboratories from 20 countries, Neuroprion commands European Commission funding of Euro 14.4 million over five years, focusing on BSE, vCJD, and scrapie.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS at America’s St Louis University are destroying tumours with genetically engineered viruses that infect cancer cells whilst leaving healthy cells unharmed. Results published in the journal Cancer Research have claimed cancer cells are destroyed when the viruses reproduce themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) should pump public money into nanotechnology research to enable Europe to regain its former leading position in this growing and increasingly lucrative sector, the European Commission has said. A policy paper (communication) ‘Towards a European Strategy for Nanotechnology’, says the it should use its cross-border coordinating role to create EU ‘poles of excellence’ in the sector, combining researchers with industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROTOTYPE of a three-dimensional monitoring system allowing airport managers to check all groundhandling movements on aircraft runways, taxiways, aprons and parking zones, is being developed by a European Union (EU) research consortium. Coordinated by French IT firm SILOGIC, it involves cameras creating digital images that identify individuals, objects and vehicles, whose movement can be interpreted by computers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CALIFORNIA tax-payers are spending US$10.1 billion per year to subsidise the state’s growing low-wage economy, according to a study from the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education. It claims that of the families receiving social assistance in California, 53 per cent of funds went to working families to cover health and child care costs, rather than to unemployed and retired people.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL calls for proposals have been made by the European Commission for studies into organic and low input milk production, under its Euro 18 million ‘Quality Low Input Food’ project. Euro 330,000 is available for this particular study.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN Agricultural Research Service scientists have discovered a way to protect honey bee colonies from being wiped out by voracious varroa mites, by breeding bees with an identified genetic trait that suppresses the reproduction of the mites in infested colonies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS at America’s St Louis University are destroying tumours with genetically engineered viruses that infect cancer cells whilst leaving healthy cells unharmed. Results published in the journal Cancer Research have claimed cancer cells are destroyed when the viruses reproduce themselves.…