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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has developed a simple, fast and easy test to check the vulnerability of poultry to infection, using molecular markers to secure data from blood samples in two days. Current immunity tests are imprecise, expensive and take weeks – too late to be useful in the fast breeding and slaughtering world of broiler production.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

NURSES can actually reduce symptoms in patients that undergo medical procedures by telling them how bad they will feel, according to a study published in the USA’s Psychosomatic Medicine Magazine. Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, researchers wanted to determine how expectations affect symptoms of nausea and motion sickness.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is taking another serious step towards developing viable transport systems running on hydrogen, whose only emission is water. Following the success of its CUTE trials of hydrogen buses in large cities such as London, the EU is launching two more projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH Vita and chemical multinational Dow (Benelux) are planning to secure European research funding via the EUREKA network to commercialise successful bio-polymer research, that has made strides towards manufacturing a foam from such ingredients. The European Commission’s directorate general (DG) for research has reported that a Vita-Dow-led consortium would focus on "the implementation of green polyols into PU foams".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GRAND European Union (EU) wide debate on the future or urban transport policy has been announced by EU transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot. Speaking in Paris, the Frenchman promised to issue a green paper this week calling for comments from local and regional authorities about how the EU could directly intervene to improve urban mobility, for instance via research.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

THE PAINT and coatings industry is a small but brightly shining star in the Finnish economy’s firmament, and one, which, as might be expected, has all the virtues of specialised Nordic industrial sectors.

These include a mature market, a great familiarity between manufacturers and customers in a society of little more than five million and harsh winter conditions, which dictate the high consumption of paints.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

HEALTH-related research projects will command budgets of Euro 5.9 billion from 2007-13 under a draft rewritten European Union (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7). Now under discussion at the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers, these funds would be part of the programme’s targeted research section.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked nuclear industry researchers to bid for European Union (EU) studies into radioactive material safety and transportation, with a deadline for tenders of July 31. The topics are guaranteeing nuclear safety in an industry losing expertise through retirement; incident reporting and follow-up in the nuclear sector; nuclear safety performance indicators; and a study on simplifying and codifying EU laws on transporting radioactive material.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INSTITUTIONS of the European Union (EU) have many critics, but one thing is undeniable about the EU: it has a hell of a lot of money to spend.

And this year the EU is setting its medium-term budget for 2007 to 2013, so industries such as the auto-manufacturing sector are lobbying hard for their sectors to be a spending priority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN UNPRECEDENTED joint paper from the European Commission and European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana calls for the EU to diversify its energy sources beyond Russia. In particular, the paper suggests the EU looks closer to home: at Algeria and Turkey.…