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Big molecules join together will lead to better drugs, workshop found

Bacteria can be made to spin spider silk

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Economists help climate scientists to improve global warming forecasts

Climate scientists are collaborating with experts in economic theory to improve their forecasting models and assess more accurately the impact of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Although there is broad consensus that there will be a significant rise in average global temperature, there is...

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ESF’s workshop restores good name of sugar

Glycoscience now hotbed of medical research

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Food for Thought: delivering the promise of food processing

Humans have transformed raw ingredients into food since prehistoric times.  But scientists are still looking for new ways to make food taste better and survive longer.   Presenting their findings at a recent European Science Foundation (ESF) and European Cooperation in the field of...

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EuroBioForum Sows the Seeds for Future Life Sciences Initiatives in Europe

A meeting of researchers, administrators and funding agencies has laid the foundations for a key part of Europe’s future research strategy in the life sciences.The EuroBioForum conference in Lisbon, Portugal on 6 and 7 December, organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European...

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Far flung food: Europe's distant diets

ESF-COST conference examines food’s journey from outside of the EU

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ESF Conference examines into insect’s immunity system

The long-held idea that only vertebrates have sophisticated adaptive immune systems that can protect them for life against many pathogens after being infected by them just once has been revised in recent years. It turns out that many insects also have a form of immune memory that protects them...

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Europe to tackle brain disorder research by linking industry, academia

Brain disorders including addiction, depression, and schizophrenia afflict 1 billion people and are often incurable with current therapies

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EuroBioForum to showcase institute’s effort to step up cardio-vascular disease research

An ambitious European collaboration proposes to set up a new institute to focus funding, coordinate projects, and nurture the requisite skills for accelerating research into cardiovascular disease, the cause of between 30 and 50 percent of the continent’s deaths, depending on the country. The...

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Watching what we eat: ESF - COST conference on Food Systems

Food has never been more of a global commodity than it is today.  But there is an urgent need to understand the problems that face future European food supplies within this global market.  And so scientists and policy makers gathered in Budapest last week to push for a more holistic...

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