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BY MARK ROWE
IN tough economic times, an industry has to sell itself harder. It is no surprise, then, that if you glance at the websites of Singapore’s leading paint companies, you will see plenty of buzzwords such as “technology”, “improvement” and “development”.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE NEW York Times is reporting that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been pressuring its scientific experts to approve meat products not yet deemed safe. An unnamed senior USDA scientist said department researchers had been pressured to approve cattle from Mexico at risk of tuberculosis and, in August, following their BSE scare, boneless meat from Canadian cattle, prior to the conclusion of an in-house study.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TWO Australian drugs based on the human flu virus have proved effective against bird flu (H5N1 virus) in the laboratory, claims the country’s leading science body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). It said in tests (including pre-clinical trials), flu drug Relenza and Tamiflu have shown effectiveness against the disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GRANTS worth Euro 1.35 million have been awarded by the Dutch government to fund two new research centres carrying out multidisciplinary studies into the prevention, management and treatment of infectious diseases in the Netherlands and developing countries. The centres will be virtual institutions, recruiting researchers from around the country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUPPORT for the future preservation and even expansion of nuclear fission appears to be growing in the European Commission, with European Union (EU) research Commissioner Philippe Busquin adding his backing to the pro-nuclear stance long adopted by energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FUTURE European Union (EU) research programmes affecting meat production should be reoriented towards consumer protection, animal welfare standards and environmental good practice rather than food production technology, the European Parliament has said. Its suggestions came in a report on the current and next EU (sixth and seventh) framework programme for research.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE MANIPULATION of atoms within materials by using optical devices, (such as 3D light field synthesis), is being developed by a consortium of European organisations with Britain paying a leading role. The ATOM3D project is one of a number of “visionary” sciences that the European Union (EU) is funding under its New and Emerging Science and Technology (NEST) scheme for 2004 and is slated to receive funding of around Euro 1 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union research project has developed ways to exploit tomato waste as a source of sugars. The TOM project says around 4 million tonnes of tomato dregs are disposed of in Europe annually, with especially seeds, containing many nutrients.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
STUDIES into the environmental conditions sparking asthma and allergies in Europe are to be carried out by an expert network (GA2LEN) funded by Euro 14.4 million in EU research grants. The initiative involves 650 researchers in 16 countries and will investigate national contrasts in allergy rates.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA’S Cooperative Research Centre for Mining has invented a Dragline Dutymeter, which can help raise the operational capacity of a dragline by up to 25 per cent. It is an early warning system to alert operators in real time to actions, which can rapidly degrade the machine’s reliability.…