Search Results for: Research

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

IN the rapidly expanding world of nanotechnology, the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors are of the utmost importance. Millions of dollars and Euro are being pumped into nanotechnology research, with Euro 90 million being earmarked for nano-medicine under the European Union’s (EU) outgoing sixth framework programme research alone: more money is expected to be spent under the seventh framework programme, which should start in January 2007.…

BY JANE MOIR, in Hong Kong

CONSTRUCTION is on the up, people are eagerly buying homes, cars are being churned out at a rapid pace and the 2008 Beijing Olympics are just around the corner. The demand for paint and coatings in China should never have been better.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has launched a research project aiming to document the effects of long-term, low exposure to toxic metals, such as mercury and lead, to influence future pollution controls. Although many metals have been proven toxic in sufficient quantities, much less is known about the damage caused by trace elements in water, the atmosphere and soil.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FACT BOX

Population of Cyprus: 793,100

Number of students enrolled at university: 5,000 (see text)

Percentage of university students who are Cypriots: 90%

Percentage of Cypriots (excluding mature students) attending university in Cyprus or other countries: 80%

INTERVIEW

OUT of every ten young people who apply for a place at the University of Cyprus, only three actually gets admitted.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMEA) stands ready to help pharmaceutical companies in the development and marketing of new drugs in an effort to halt and reverse the decline in the number of new medicines being brought to the world market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILED documentation requirements required for the international trade in genetically modified foodstuffs have been agreed by parties to the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety. The European Commission has hailed the documents as "clear, meaningful and practical for both exporters and importers of agricultural products".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PARALLEL production of genetically modified and non-GM food is practical without major precautions, claims the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. It says accidental contamination of non-GM seeds with GM material can be limited to 0.5% without production changes for sugar beet and small changes for maize.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCIENTISTS in a European Union (EU) funded research project claim they are making headway in developing a broad-based influenza vaccine "that may even help to eradicate the disease amongst humans". This

Universal Vaccine team of British, Belgian, Swedish and Dutch researchers is targeting a part of the M2 protein (M2e), which has remained relatively constant in influenza strains identified since 1933.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PARALLEL production of genetically modified and non-GM food is practical without major precautions, claims a report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). The European Union (EU) scientific unit says that accidental contamination of non-GM seeds with genetically modified material can be limited to 0.5% with no changes in production methods for sugar beet (and cotton) and small changes in maize husbandry.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

NON-metallic minerals, long considered the poor relations in the extended family of industrial minerals, are suddenly popular again.

They have found favour once more because of their molecular structures and their usefulness in the rapidly advancing world of nanotechnology.…