Reprieve for poorly knees
CARTILAGE erosion and its role on joint disease is under study at Edinburgh University thanks to a Pounds 100,000 grant from the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council. Cartilage, an essential component of...
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Fish lured into the wood
FISH stocks in the Third World could improve using an African tradition of trapping them using artificial reefs made of sticks, according to Stirling University researchers. Malcolm Beveridge, Donald...
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Reefs exercise seafaring minds
EUROPEAN marine biologists met last week in Southampton Oceanography Centre to pool their knowledge and expertise on artificial reef design and development. The 50-strong group, known as the European...
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Part-timers are happier with their lot
Employees who work part-time are more satisfied with their jobs, less anxious and less likely to think of leaving than full-time employees, new research suggests. Neil Conway of Birkbeck College...
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Suicide mentality reflects lower mortality
PEOPLE at risk of commiting suicide are also more likely to die early from accidents or natural causes, according to a study running for the past 50 years. More than 5,000 people born in one week in...
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Chairs
Queen's University of Belfast Philip Kitchen, former senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, has been appointed to the Martin Naughton chair in business strategy. City University Roger...
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Appointments
DFEE Louise Wallace, chief executive of the Horton General NHS Trust, has been appointed to the board of Investors in People UK. Department of Trade & Industry The following have been...
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Academic abducted
I would like to draw readers' attention to the abduction of an East Timorese academic in Indonesia. Lucas da Costa disappeared on December 23 1997 on his way to deliver a lecture at the Dharma...
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Doctor rejects unkind cuts
MARGARET Somerville takes a call from a medical news journal seeking a comment on a new service available over the Internet that matches patients with a doctor who can diagnose their ailments. Dr...
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Ideas + cash = magic formula
Britain's top research universities should set up their own venture capital funds to start the commercialisation of their scientists' research discoveries, a leading financier says. Sir David Cooksey...
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Edinburgh provides lesson in venture capitalism
Edinburgh University is one of Britain's few academic institutions to have dabbled in venture capital. Its success has been astounding with its fund growing more than 30 times in value in a decade....
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Fund juggler upbeat after NHS pruning
Martin Ince asks John Swales, the man responsible for NHS research, how he will cope with a cut of Pounds 10 million from his budget John Swales, director of research and development at the National...
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Euro investors branded hi-tech faint-hearts
Budding European technology firms could migrate to the United States unless they secure more support from capital markets, according to Carol Galley, vice-chairman of City firm Mercury Asset...
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Cloning a golden fleece
Dolly the sheep had two 'parents' - one private, the other public. Olga Wojtas talks to the MD who saw that cloning could be profitable The science story of 1997 was undoubtedly the cloning of Dolly...
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France plays drugs catch-up
Britain's success in exploiting academic research in biotechnology attracted envy across the Channel a few years ago, where the head of French chemical giant Rhone-Poulence decided it was time to...