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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) should pump public money into nanotechnology research to enable Europe to regain its former leading position in this growing and increasingly lucrative sector, the European Commission has said. A policy paper (communication) ‘Towards a European Strategy for Nanotechnology’, says the it should use its cross-border coordinating role to create EU ‘poles of excellence’ in the sector, combining researchers with industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) network of excellence on prion disease research was launched last week (May 28) at a conference in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France. Involving 52 laboratories from 20 countries, Neuroprion commands European Commission funding of Euro 14.4 million over five years, focusing on BSE, vCJD, and scrapie.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S Molson Inc. has launched a slim 250-ml beer can, a first in the Canadian beer market. The company hopes consumers will view the new packaging as “cool” and a “conversation-starter”. Eight of the skinnier cans, containing Molson Canadian, Dry or the company’s new low-carb Ultra brand, are priced the same as a six-pack of standard 355-ml cans.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
LOW carb diets result in more weight loss following six months of such a regime than low fat diets, but both regimes see similar levels of weight loss after a year according to two studies published in USA’s Annals of Internal Medicine.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CALIFORNIA tax-payers are spending US$10.1 billion per year to subsidise the state’s growing low-wage economy, according to a study from the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education. It claims that of the families receiving social assistance in California, 53 per cent of funds went to working families to cover health and child care costs, rather than to unemployed and retired people.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WHEN a local pizza parlour goes bust, or the site of a planned hotel complex is suddenly left abandoned or interest rates suddenly shoot up for no apparent reason, we don’t normally blame money launderers. Perhaps we should though.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS at America’s St Louis University are destroying tumours with genetically engineered viruses that infect cancer cells whilst leaving healthy cells unharmed. Results published in the journal Cancer Research have claimed cancer cells are destroyed when the viruses reproduce themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROTOTYPE of a three-dimensional monitoring system allowing airport managers to check all groundhandling movements on aircraft runways, taxiways, aprons and parking zones, is being developed by a European Union (EU) research consortium. Coordinated by French IT firm SILOGIC, it involves cameras creating digital images that identify individuals, objects and vehicles, whose movement can be interpreted by computers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL walnut symposium has been scheduled in Naples, Italy, from November 7-9, with experts considering the nut’s uses and its propagation. Basic and applied research will be presented. *http://www.walnut2004.sistemacongressi.com/…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a string of reforms to EU pharmaceutical legislation, designed to boost research, innovation and the working of the EU internal market while protecting patients. They include a new regulation on authorising and supervising medicines (and on EMEA); directives on EU codes on human and veterinary medicines and a directive on traditional herbal medicines.…