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BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN EU-funded research project has developed novel enzymes boosting food texture and quality. CROSSENZ project members are now investigating marketing these biotechnological developments. Cross-linking enzymes can improve the "gel strength, thermal stability, viscosity, volume, and water-holding capacity" of foodstuffs, claim its researchers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project has developed novel enzymes boosting food texture and quality. CROSSENZ project members are now investigating marketing these biotechnological developments. Cross-linking enzymes can improve the "gel strength, thermal stability, viscosity, volume, and water-holding capacity" of foodstuffs, claim its researchers.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

INTRODUCTORY PAR

THERE are two common characteristics of the six European countries – Luxembourg, Greek Cyprus, Malta, Andorra, Liechtenstein and Iceland – which possess only a single university covering a range of disciplines. They are small in terms of population and the financial relationship between the university and the government is much closer than in other countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL research project aimed at boosting livestock quality without resorting to genetically modified technology will unveil its goals next week (March 2). A paper from the European Union-supported Sustainable Farm Animal Breeding and Reproduction (EFABAR) Technology Platform will be launched at the Salon de l’Agriculture, Paris.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MINUTE carbon dioxide sensor that ‘listens’ to air quality and alerts ventilation systems as soon as oxygen levels are too low, is being developed by a Scandinavian research team, which has received support from the European Union (EU).…

BY MONICA DOBIE

BAXTER, my adorable six-month-old West Highland Terrier, enjoys taking walks with his owner, stopping occasionally to sniff other dogs bottoms and napping in between chewing smelly socks, chasing his tail, eating questionable objects and digging dirt.

Could this fine young canine specimen one day be able to detect cancer in people?…

BY DAVID HAWORTH

IT’S the stuff of nightmares or a delirium tremens attack: scientists have produced green pigs. These transgenic creatures, green from the innards to their skin and fluorescent in the dark, will help to boost stem cell research, according to the Department of Animal Science and Technology at the Taiwan National University.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EURO 12 million European Union (EU) research project is developing new high tech garments to protect emergency disaster workers. The ProeTEX (Protection e-Textiles: Micro-Nano-Structured Fibre Systems for Emergency-Disaster Wear) scheme will be focused on creating garments that monitor emergency workers’ vital body signs, as well as potentially dangerous changes in the outside environment.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADIAN researchers have suggested a novel way of preventing a feared switch off of the Gulf Stream that warms Europe and Britain, preventing us from being plunged into Siberia-style winters. The concern is linked to global warming and its potential melting of the North Pole ice cap.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

IT might sound like science fiction but many of the most exciting and useful advances emerging from the super-science of nanotechnology are real. Nanotechnology is a relatively new approach that deals with understanding and applying the properties of matter at the nano-scale, where a small molecule measures one nano-metre (one billionth of metre) in length, or about 1/80,000 of the diameter of a human hair.…