EuroDYNA leaves healthy genomic research ecosystem as legacy

Europe’s position as a major player in genome research has been boosted by the European Science Foundation’s three-year EUROCORES programme EuroDYNA. As it draws to a close, EuroDYNA (Dynamic Nuclear Architecture and Chromatin Function) is leaving behind a healthy European ecosystem of interacting...

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Europe-wide investment in Lipid research will help tackle disease, says new report

Leading scientists today called for Europe to invest more funds into the study of lipids – the ‘fatty’ molecules that play a crucial role in the function of human cells and which are implicated in a range of diseases from obesity and diabetes to Alzheimer’s.Common lipids such as cholesterol are...

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2008 Millennium Technology Prize Awarded to Professor Robert Langer for Intelligent Drug Delivery

The 2008 Millennium Technology Prize was presented to Professor Robert Langer today in Helsinki for developing innovative biomaterials for controlled drug release. The world’s largest technology prize is awarded by Technology Academy Finland for a technological innovation that significantly...

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EuroDYNA takes lid off the genome

European researchers have made significant progress unravelling how genes are governed and why this sometimes goes wrong in disease. The key lies in the dynamic ever-changing structure of the chromatin, which is the underlying complex of protein and DNA making up the chromosomes in which almost all...

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Europe gets together to harness quantum physics

The long cherished goal of applying the strange properties of quantum mechanics to the macroscopic world we inhabit has been brought closer by a series of recent developments. The exciting progress was made in the important field of quantum optics and discussed recently at a high level conference...

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Finding out what the big bang and ink jets have in common

ESF workshop tackles the mathematics of singularities

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From Observation to Information: 4 Marine Challenges Identified

Please click here for an opinion piece on the First Marine Board Fourm that was held in Ostend, Belgium on 15 May 2008. The piece was contributed by Geoffrey O’Sullivan and Jacky Wood. They are the delegates of the Marine Baord, representing the Marine Institute in Galway and the National...

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Young Mineral Scientists Rock!

The EUROCORES Programme EuroMinScI Inititiative holds its 2nd Conference

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Europe's biobanks need urgent coordination, scientists say

Leading European scientists say that there is an “urgent need” for greater coordination and harmonisation between Europe’s biobanks – repositories of genetic and other information from large numbers of people that can be used to investigate complex diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. To enable...

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New treatments for viral and other diseases by blocking genes

The elusive goal of developing effective treatments for viral diseases such as AIDS and influenza has been brought closer by dramatic progress in the ability to interfere with viral genetic machinery. The stage was set for a coordinated European effort to accelerate research and stimulate...

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