Eyeing up a new therapy
Gene therapy, the holy grail of the post-genome era, aims to render drugs and surgery unnecessary, altering the faulty genes in patients' cells by adding replacement strands of DNA. So finding the...
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Seals' footage of fishy activity
A team of American marine biologists has formed an unlikely alliance in its exploration of the dark waters under the frozen Antarctic sea ice. A film crew of 15 Weddell seals, which was initially the...
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MRC praised for financial success
The Medical Research Council is "particularly successful" in building on intellectual property arising from its research institutes, a report has found. Its income stream from such activities grew...
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Scottish students dared to be digital
A leading Scottish entrepreneur has urged students to enter a competition aimed at creating the future stars of Scotland's digital economy. Chris van der Kuyl, 32, president of Vis Entertainment,...
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Anti-Eta activist ousted
An appeal board at one of Spain's largest public universities has downgraded a recently appointed professor after a protest lodged by a colleague once seen as a leading ideologue of the Basque...
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EU may bankroll joint programmes with the Palestinians
The European Union's Tempus programme, set up to aid the transition process in former eastern bloc countries, could be extended to universities in the West Bank and Gaza. Universities in north Africa...
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News in brief
Istanbul Turkey's courts are to decide whether a speech by US linguist Noam Chomsky in the southeastern city of Diyarbakyžr, monitored by local police, broke the law by supporting a Kurdish state and...
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Funding delays cause chaos for researchers
Eight of Spain's scientific bodies have said the system for funding biomedical research is in "chaos", with some projects deprived of expected state support for up to seven months. The associations,...
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Lang tries to flush out racism
France's education minister Jack Lang has set up a commission to investigate racism and revisionism that for years have plagued the University of Lyon-III, Jean-Moulin. The Universities of Lyon-II...
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Campus chiefs to fight US insularity
US higher education leaders believe overcoming campus parochialism should be their chief post-September 11 imperative. Delegates to the annual conference of the American Council on Education...
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Shake-up plans split SA opinion
Reactions to proposals to slash the number of South African universities from 36 to 21 through closures and mergers have ranged from positive to outright rebellion. The proposals keep formerly white...
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Universities fear trade talk ploy will backfire
The United States government has quietly proposed a change in trade policy that non-profit universities say will favour their for-profit competitors, making it easier for them to offer distance-...
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Venture derided for being research-lite
Melbourne University Private has been warned that it must develop a research profile or stop calling itself a university. In a statement released with the report of a government-commissioned review...
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In the news: David Hopkins
David Hopkins, professor of education at the University of Nottingham, next week starts work as director of the Standards and Effectiveness Unit at the Department for Education and Skills. Professor...
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Trampling on tradition
As part of its inquiry into the research assessment exercise, the House of Commons science and technology select committee will today take oral evidence from the University of East Anglia. Normally,...