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EDCTP Announces €12.6M Grants for HIV Treatment Innovation

EDCTP wishes to make a contribution to mitigating the effect of this disease by announcing funding opportunities for HIV/AIDS researchers. To commemorate the…

Science Education

€1.75 Billion Boost for European Climate Research Projects

Areas for support include environmental issues such as sea-level rise and the impact of climate change on Arctic Ocean eco-systems, the impact of UV radiation…

Physics & Astronomy

Basque Researchers Unveil New Discoveries on Venus

The Venus Express space mission was launched in November 2005 and entered in planetary orbit in April 2006. Since then it has been regularly sending data and…

Science Education

CTA Boosts Basque Aerospace in European R+T Programs

CTA has accompanied the Basque aerospace companies, in the CENIT project proposals, two of which have been approved in the first call of year 2007, which have…

Environmental Conservation

£14 Million Funding Boost for Biodiversity Research in Europe

The new funding comes from BiodivERsA, a network of 19 public research funding bodies from 14 European countries. The UK partners are the Natural Environment…

Physics & Astronomy

Jules Verne ATV given its 'wings'

The automatic deployment of these metallic blue 'wings' and the activation of the on-board navigation systems will transform the 20-tonne Automated Transfer…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Noctis Labyrinthus: Mars’ Enigmatic Night Maze

The HRSC took these pictures on 25 June 2006 in orbit 3155, with a ground resolution of approximately 16 m/pixel. Noctis Labyrinthus lies at approximately 6.5°…

Information Technology

Telemedicine Breakthrough: Satellite Health Alerts Explained

Thankfully, this was only a two-day training exercise conducted in the frame of the SAFE project (satellite for health early warning and for epidemiology),…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

MTT’s barley gene transfer technique ready

Development of gene transfer methods forms part of the Disease Resistant Barley project, which provides genomic tools for managing and monitoring barley net…

Studies and Analyses

Latin American Teens Face Higher HIV Infection Rates Than Spaniards

For the performance of this research work, professors Mª Paz Bermúdez Sánchez and Ángel Castro Vázquez used a sample of 218 adolescents aged between 14 and 19…

Earth Sciences

Alps Mountain Summits Show Surprising Plant Similarity

The biologists assessed data on the composition and species numbers of plants on the summits of seven mountains measuring over 3000 metres in the Bernina range…

Physics & Astronomy

X-Ray Santa Claus: New Insights from the Orion Nebula

An early present for astronomers, the cloud suggests that hot gas from many star-forming regions leaks into the interstellar medium. The Orion nebula is the…

Physics & Astronomy

New 3D X-Ray Technique Targets Terrorists and Tumors

Professor Robert Cernik and colleagues from The School of Materials have built a prototype colour 3D X-ray system that allows material at each point of an…

Studies and Analyses

Is Arctic Ocean Circulation Unusual? Insights from Nature Study

Today a pronounced and stable freshwater layer at the surface originating from inputs of the large Russian rivers almost completely prevents any significant…

Life & Chemistry

Restoring Lymphatic Function with Growth Factor Treatment

The researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research show that application of vascular endothelial growth…

Life & Chemistry

How cells keep in shape – Scientists elucidate a molecular mechanism that plays a key role in giving a cell its shape

Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), The Netherlands, have now decoded a…

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