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BMJ FRANCE RESEARCH SLEEPY DRIVERS
BY MONICA DOBIE
MOTORISTS continue to drive despite knowing they are too sleepy for safety, according to study published in the British Medical Journal.
French researchers from the Institut National de la Santé [health] et de la Recherche Médicale and the Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité examined the association between 13,299 middle-aged drivers admitting driving in France whilst sleepy and their risk of serious road traffic accidents.…
ARS USA RESEARCH ANIMAL BY-PRODUCT FLOWER POT MANUFACTURING
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the USA’s Horticultural Research Institute (HRI) are working together to develop biodegradable pots for nursery production.
The team is developing environmentally sound pots to replace current non-biodegradable plastic models.…
SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD, biotechnology and agriculture research budgets will command Euro 1.9 billion from 2007-13 under a draft EU seventh framework programme (FP7). Other targeted research budgets under the Euro 54.5 billion scheme include Euro 5.9 billion on health and Euro 3.4 billion on nanotechnology, materials, and manufacturing
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COFFEE ALCOHOL LIVER PROTECTION USA RESEARCH
BY MONICA DOBIE
HEAVY alcohol drinkers may reduce their risk of acquiring the liver disease cirrhosis if they drink coffee, according to a study in the USA’s Archives of Internal Medicine. Study participants drinking coffee had a 22% less chance of developing alcoholic cirrhosis than those who did not.…
AUSTRALASIAN PAINT INDUSTRY ADOPTS ENVIRONMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PRACTICES
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
THE PAINT industries of Australia and New Zealand and their customers have taken several steps towards a more environmental and socially responsible approach making and applying coatings over the past 12 months, in both commercial and domestic markets.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT VOTE SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FP7
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved amendments to the European Union’s (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7) for research, that would instruct the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) to use some FP7 budget on information campaigns promoting nuclear energy. This idea must now be accepted by the EU Council of Ministers to go forward.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION WIND POWER REPORT
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT detailing the progress in wind-power technology has been released by the European Commission, which has sunk millions of Euros into research projects in recent years. The paper details projects providing better turbines as well as blades and rotors.…
EASTERN EUROPE ELECTRICITY FEATURE -NUCLEAR POWER PHASE OUT CAPACITY REPLACEMENT
BY DEIRDRE MASON
A SIGNIFICANT boost in funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will speed the challenging switchover from ageing nuclear power stations in central and eastern Europe (CEE) to a cleaner, more efficient and more sustainable energy scene in these new and aspiring entrants to European Union (EU) membership.…
ITALY EIB PHARMACEUTICAL LOAN
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend Italian pharmaceutical manufacturer Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA Euro 30 million helping it construct a new R&D centre and upgrade existing equipment, allowing the company to rationalise its research programmes.…
STEM CELL FP7 CONCERNS - ITALY U-TURN ERASMUS MUNDUS FUNDING EU LIFELONG LEARNING FUNDING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ISSUE of whether public money should fund stem cell research is set to become a controversial topic again, with funding restrictions being tabled by MEPs for the European Union’s (EU) oncoming seventh framework programme (FP7). These include banning "research activities intended to create human embryos solely for the purpose of research or for the purpose of stem cell procurement".…