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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has confirmed that transport will command the lion’s share of trans European networks (TENs) budgets for 2007-13. Releasing details of the general medium-term budget deal struck with ministers and MEPs last month, Brussels said TENs transport projects should receive Euro 8.013 billion over the seven years, while energy networks will receive just Euro 155 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-supported research project is designing car sensor equipment helping motorists avoid accidents at junctions and intersections. These are the location of 35-40% of all Europe traffic accidents in Europe, says the European Commission, and 70% of fatal crashes.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend the Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (Venice) Euro 75 million to help fund a rationalisation programme, consolidating its current 40 buildings on 15 sites into four research and teaching campuses.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SUB-SAHARAN Africa’s biggest cotton producer Mali is mulling GM cotton trials, a development which could open up cheap cotton supplies for the textile and clothing trade.

But resistance from local farmers to high seed costs and tough times for existing GM cotton growers in South Africa – the only African country where GM is commercially grown – may mean that Africa’s potential as a key supplier is still some way off.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

THE USA’s Agricultural Research Service has found that Bing cherries contain anti-inflammatory properties that may help in the fight against arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Indicators of inflammation – nitric oxide, C reactive protein and a cell marker RANTES dropped 18%- 25% after test subjects ate 45 cherries a day for 28 days.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas

THERE is another side to the loss of life and devastation wreaked in the USA by hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma and Dennis last year, a market reaction that has brought unsought benefits to the US paint and coatings industry.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg, South Africa and DAVID HAWORTH, in Taiwan

TRADITIONAL health care systems do not always get a good press, being accused of incorporating superstition and poor medical practice. To some western public health advocates, they are akin to bringing back the leach.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FOOD, biotechnology and agriculture research projects will command budgets of Euro 1.9 billion from 2007-13 under a draft rewritten European Union (EU) seventh framework programme (FP7). Other targeted research budgets under the Euro 54.5 billion scheme proposed by the European Commission of potential relevance to the food sector include Euro 5.9 billion on health, Euro 1.8 million on environmental research, plus Euro 3.4 billion on nanotechnology, materials, and manufacturing.…

BY MARK ROWE

NANOTECHNOLOGY, though in its infancy, is already having an influential bearing on the international drinks market. According to a study by consultant Helmut Kaiser, latest available figures indicate that worldwide sales of nanotechnology products to the food and beverage packaging sector jumped to US$860 million (Euro 687.5 million) in 2004 from US$150 million (Euro 120 million) in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ANOTHER step is being taken this year towards the commercialisation of hydrogen-powered vehicles, with the launch of a European Union (EU)-funded research project involving workers running standard h-cars in their every-day lives. Called ZERO_REGIO, the project will see five Frankfurt airport employees and three local government officials from Mantova, northern Italy, driving DaimlerChrysler DC-A-Classe and Fiat Panda hydrogen-fuelled cars respectively.…