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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank today is giving US$25 million to Yemen to help it improve fisheries resource management and conservation off its 2,230 km coastline, where fish exports generated US$210 million in 2004. The money will improve fish landing, auction facilities and ice plants, helping Yemen’s fisheries ministry stage more effective research, resource management and landing regulation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project has developed medical equipment aiding cancer drugs by administering electric shocks to patients. The ESOPE programme has created a ‘Cliniporator’ that uses short high voltage pulsed electric fields to make the membrane of tumour cells more porous, and more receptive to medicines.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CALIFORNIA has become the first US state to formally declare secondhand smoke a toxic air pollutant, aligning it with diesel exhaust, arsenic and benzene. The California Air Resources Board voted unanimously to change tobacco’s smoke status based on a report that found a sharp increased risk of breast cancer in young women exposed to passive smoking.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A THAILAND research agency has lost a long legal battle to force the European Commission to act against a French academic it claims duped them out of a Brussels grant. The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), of Pathumthani, a non-profit-making technological and research agency, failed to persuade the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to declare invalid a Euro 27,481 payment made in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GLOOMY assessment from the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that not only could bird flu now be endemic in Turkey but that there is a serious risk of migratory birds from Africa this Spring carrying the pathogen further afield.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A COMPOUND related to Vitamin A has shown promise in tests as a successful lung cancer preventative with few side effects, according to research from the USA’s Washington University School of Medicine.

Bexarotene prevented or slowed tumour growth in mice prone to lung cancer without severe skin irritations that have limited the use of other vitamin A derivatives in cancer therapies concluded researchers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked for meat production specialists to bid for grants from a new Euro 20 million budget, funding research projects that will help fight bird flu. One priority area is the development of environment-friendly poultry production methods, more likely to impede the disease’s spread.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN University Association (EUA) has called on higher education institutions across Europe to improve their accounting procedures after the European Commission proposed they could recover audited indirect costs incurred during European Union (EU)-funded research projects. Brussels has included the suggestion in new detailed rules for funding under the incoming Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PARALLEL research projects are being staged by the European Union (EU) and Europe’s automobile industry to create sophisticated sensor devices that can cut road accidents. The EU’s INTRO project is seeking to ensure vehicle-based sensors – that can detect an obstacle on the road and warn drivers – are compatible with roadside sensors relaying additional information to motorists, such as pavement usage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s atomic energy community EURATOM has formally joined the Generation IV International Forum, which is tasked with developing nuclear power generators that address ongoing environmental and public safety concerns. The EU Council of Ministers agreed EURATOM will help joint research undertaken by the forum, which includes the US and Britain.…