Brussels, 28 January 2004 Existing approvals Under the rules on the deliberate release of GMOs into the environment (Directive 2001/18/EC and previously Directive 90/220/EC ) so far 18 GMOs have been...
Brussels, 28 January 2004 What are GMOs and GMMs? Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically modified micro-organisms (GMMs) can be defined as organisms (and micro-organisms) in which the...
Paris, 28 Jan 2004 Urgent action is needed on the part of many OECD governments to make the public research sector more involved in innovative activities, more responsive to social needs and more...
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 The European Commission has established a new 12 million euro Network of Excellence (NoE) called BioSapiens, which comprises a virtual institute for genome annotation and a...
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 The European Parliament's Environment and Public Health Committee has adopted a report on a Commission proposal for the creation of a European centre for disease prevention and...
Bruxelles, 28 janvier 2004 La recherche technologique va jouer un rôle décisif dans la nouvelle initiative ETAP. Tout d'abord, elle va être à l'origine de la création des nouvelles technologies...
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 Amid little fanfare but great expectations, Russia has launched its first-ever commercially oriented research and development centre. A priority at the institute-cum-incubator...
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 EU Commissioner for Education and Culture, Viviane Reding, claimed that Europe is lagging behind the US in matters of university funding, as she launched the new EU programme...
Brussels, 28 Jan 2004 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has issued a call for tenders for data collection for the European centre for the validation of alternative methods (ECVAM...
Paris, 28 Jan 2004 ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has imaged a spectacular set of rings which appear to expand, with a speed a thousand times faster than that of light, around the point in the...
Paris, 28 Jan 2004 The rapidly changing face of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is portrayed by contrasting Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken less than four years apart, most notably as a...
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'Plans for primate research centre dropped' Plans for a new primate research centre have been dropped by Cambridge University, partly because of the expected cost of protecting it from animal rights...
Blair narrowly wins the higher education bill vote The prime minister escaped humiliation by just five votes last night as he scraped to victory over university tuition fees and narrowly survived the...
Luxembourg, 24 January 2004 Action brought on 20 November 2003 (fax on 13 November 2003) by the Republic of Austria against the Commission of the European Communities (Case C-492/03) Official Journal...