System Biology: an innovative agenda for combating disease; a new biotechnology

Europe needs collective effort on System Biology, says ESF Task Force

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Systems Biology poised to revolutionise the understanding of cell function and disease

New ESF report calls for coordinated action to accelerate European Systems Biology research

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A comprehensive ERA needs full involvement of non-governmental stakeholders, ESF & EUROHORCs comment to EC’s Green Paper

The European Commission needs to engage and focus more on the national research funding and performing organisations, the private sector, and the non-European research systems for the development of the European Research Area (ERA) if it is serious about establishing a comprehensive ERA, according...

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Young researcher looks for scientific basis of human social behaviour

Humans are social animals even more than was thought, including those suffering from autism and conditions that make it hard to relate to others. Cooperative behaviour is deeply ingrained in nearly all people, but the underlying cognitive processes that make this happen are poorly understood....

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New Breakthroughs in Geological Dating Imminent

A breakthrough in geological dating can be expected within the next few years, combining existing methods to yield higher accuracy over longer time scales closer to the earth’s origin. This will bring great benefits not just for earth sciences, but also for other fields that rely on accurate dating...

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ESF EURYI award winner aims to stop cancer cells reading their own DNA

A promising new line in anti-cancer therapy by blocking the molecular motors involved in copying genetic information during cell division is being pursued by young Dutch researcher Dr. Nynke Dekker in one of this year’s EURYI award winning projects sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF)...

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ESF’s Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers

Foresight within the European Research Area

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EURYI award project to store antimatter in box like ‘office bin’

Physicists want to study antimatter much more closely and confirm beyond all doubt that it really is the exact opposite of the matter we observe in everyday existence, but there is a problem. Antimatter is very difficult to make, and even harder to store afterwards, making it more precious to...

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Universe’s stringy birth revealed by young Czech scientist in EURYI winning project

Unravelling the random fluctuations of nothing

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The European Science Foundation and the European Commission Sign Contract For COST in FP7

In the last week of July 2007 the European Commission (EC) and the European Science Foundation (ESF) signed the contract for ESF to continue to provide and manage the administrative, technical and scientific secretariat of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) under the Seventh...

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