Brussels, 19 May 2004 Full text of Document 0/04 Suite of documents 0/04 Delegations will find attached the discussion paper "Towards a New Partnership between COST and the Commission" in view of the...
Brussels, 19 May 2004 Full text of Document 269/04 Suite of documents 269/04 Since the Secretariat has received two nominations for the Vice Presidency of the CSO (docs. COST 250/04 and COST 266/04...
Brussels, 19 May 2004 Full text of Document 280/04 Suite of documents 280/04 [...] Council Register
Brussels, 19 May 2004 Full text of Document 1931/04 * * * Agenda Item 5 - Progress Report by the COST Office Full text of Document 8/04 Suite of documents 8/04 * * * Agenda Items 11, 12 and 13 -...
Brussels, 19 May 2004 A consortium of 13 partners from eight European countries is to investigate the implications of pursuing living technology in the 'programmable artificial cell evolution' (PACE...
Brussels, 19 May 2004 The UK stem cell bank, the only such facility in the world, officially opened on 19 May with the deposit of the first human embryonic stem cell line ever developed in Europe....
Brussels, 19 May 2004 The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked the European patent of a US biotechnology company, Myriad Genetics, on a breast and ovarian cancer genetic test. In a statement, the...
Staff at risk in RAE run-up Universities are moving to transfer weak researchers into teaching-only posts or make them redundant to improve their scores in the next research assessment exercise. The...
Brussels, 19 May 2004 On the second day of the EU's Competitiveness Council on 18 May, ministers voted through changes to the software patenting directive that will pave the way for extensive...
Brussels, 19 May 2004 The UK's Department of Trade and Industry, together with the Medical Research Council, are organising an event to coincide with the launch of the third call for proposals under...
Brussels, 19 May 2004 Brussels played host to two initiatives aimed at bringing some of the newest and most promising technology to the public on 18 May, and EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin...
Paris, 19 May 2004 ESA will meet with Polish industry and institutes, at a workshop in Warsaw, Poland, 26- May, to provide Polish industry with an opportunity to gain insight into ESA's programmes...
Paris, 19 May 2004 For almost four years and hundreds of individual articles the ESA Portal has been bringing its readers the facts about Europe's space activities. Today however, we have to inform...
Paris, 19 May 2004 Every time you look at the sky, you travel back in time... in a sense. When you look at a star which is 100 000 light-years away, you see it as it was 100 000 years ago. Its light...
Car fumes 'may cause one in six cot deaths' Exhaust fumes from vehicles may be to blame for up to a sixth of cot deaths, says an international study. Soot from combustion is already linked with lung...