Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 An expert group on intellectual property rights (IPRs) has warned that rules governing the protection of copyrights, database rights and patents hamper scientific endeavour and...
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 The UK has clarified its position on inventions involving human embryonic stem cells by outlining under what circumstances it would consider granting them a patent. In a...
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 New legislation permitting cloning for therapeutic purposes and research using human in vitro embryos, was adopted by the Belgian parliament on 3 April. The legal text specifies...
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 French and UK researchers have pooled their resources to create the world's largest library of genetic information from the study of wheat. After several years of work and...
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 The Energy Foundation of Asturias (FAEN) is organising a biomass event entitled 'Generation of new activities for the economic benefit of the forestry sector: energy...
Closure looms for historic department King's College London is considering closing its world-famous chemistry department, where 50 years ago the foundations for the discovery of the structure of DNA...
Estelle Morris to lead fight over fees Former education secretary Estelle Morris is ready to lead a backbench fight against top-up fees and foundation hospitals. Ms Morris, who quit last October,...
Brussels, 14 Apr 2003 Asthma is dogging children's health in Europe, according to reports from last week's World Health Day. What is causing this threat? And what is being done about it? 'Shape the...
Brussels, 14 Apr 2003 The number of field-based trials of genetically modified (GM) crops in the EU has fallen by around 80 per cent since 1998, a new Commission study has shown. The survey, carried...
Brussels, 14 Apr 2003 The International Human Genome Consortium announced on 14 April that they have successfully sequenced the human genome more than two years earlier than expected. The UK based...
Brussels, 14 Apr 2003 An EU funded accompanying measure is continuing to play a primordial role in improving communication networks in genomics with the launch of a virtual gateway to genomes in...
Ministers to examine 'study-while-you-work' degrees A new kind of degree course is to be launched in which students graduate after conducting research while continuing in their full-time jobs. To...
Brussels, 14 Apr 2003 Science in candidate countries will get a €13 million boost with the launch of several support actions. Helping SMEs put together and manage research projects takes the lion...
Paris, 14 Apr 2003 On Thursday 17 April ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, Mr Jörg Feustel-Büechl, will sign a contract with the French space agency (CNES), represented by its President Yannick d'...
Dawkins renews attack on Iraq invaders Scientist Richard Dawkins today renewed his attack on the US and the UK over their invasion of Iraq and said that any coalition action against Syria would be...