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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Europe takes aim at major metabolic disease with Systems Biology

A major European initiative against major metabolic disorders such as obesity is to be launched at the EuroBioForum conference at Lisbon in December 2007. The aim is to revolutionise the way medical research is conducted by taking an engineering-led approach under the umbrella of systems biology,...

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The winding road from farm to fork: ESF - COST to hold conference on Food Systems

Food is a basic human need. But in an advanced society, it gets to us in complex ways. On November 5-6, the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) will gather experts on the food systems to consider the scientific and...

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IPCC’s Nobel Peace Prize Win underlines International Collaboration spirit, ESF involvement

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has not only demonstrated a remarkable commitment to the dedication of the worldwide experts’ effort into climate change research it has also highlighted the spirit of collaboration that has been avidly...

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Microbial biofilms evoke Jackal & Hyde effects

Microbes such as bacteria tend to live in complex colonies called biofilms, where there can resist antibiotics and cause more problems for the immune system. Biofilms comprising millions of bacteria are at the root of many serious chronic infectious diseases such as cystic fibrosis and periodontal...

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ESF, VR, FORMAS sign MOU to promote Global Environmental Change Research

The European Science Foundation (ESF), the Swedish Research Council (VR), and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS) have agreed to join forces to promote Global Change Research through an international, interdisciplinary conference series....

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