27. June 2008
Unravelling the “Inconvenient Truth” of glacier movement
Predicting climate change depends on many factors not properly included in current forecasting models, such as how the major polar ice caps will move in the event of melting around their edges. This in turn requires greater understanding of the processes at work when ice is under stress,... [more]
17. June 2008
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... [more]
11. June 2008
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... [more]
20. May 2008
Ocean acidification – another undesired side effect of fossil fuel-burning
Up to now, the oceans have buffered climate change considerably by absorbing almost one third of the worldwide emitted carbon dioxide. The oceans represent a significant carbon sink, but the uptake of excess CO2 stemming from man’s burning of fossil fuels comes at a high cost: ocean acidification.... [more]
11. April 2008
ESF Conference probes water’s mysterious interactions at molecular level
Some of the most challenging problems in science concern the behaviour of the most commonplace compound on the planet’s surface - water. But some of the mysteries are now being unravelled by the latest analysis and imaging techniques in an unfolding story that was presented at a recent conference... [more]
10. April 2008
Computation and experiment combine to unravel how genes are regulated and shed light on how cells become different
A closer alliance between computational and experimental researchers is needed to make progress towards one of biology’s most challenging goals, understanding how epigenetic marks contribute to regulation of gene expression. This emerged from a recent workshop organised by the European Science... [more]
8. April 2008
Europe develops new technologies to boost health of livestock
A range of new technologies including genetic modification (GM) and RNA Interference are being deployed to improve the health of farm animals in a series of European and global initiatives. The ground was laid for a European platform to develop new treatments that exploit these technologies at a... [more]
12. March 2008
ESF’s European ice core project EPICA receives prestigious Descartes Prize for Collaborative, Transnational Research
The research project EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica), one of the European Science Foundations most successful and longest running Research Networking Programmes, is one of this year’s winners of the Descartes Prize for Research. The Descartes Prize for Research was awarded to... [more]
28. February 2008
Podcast: An interview with Frontiers of Functional Genomics’ Chair Dr. Taussig on the 3rd ESF Functional Genomics Conference on 1-4 October 2008
Dr. Mike Taussig, the Chairman of the ESF’s Frontiers of Functional Genomics (FFG) speaks about the 3rd ESF Functional Genomics Conference, which will be held in Innsbruck, Austria, on 1-4 October 2008. [more]
20. February 2008
Big molecules join together will lead to better drugs, workshop found
Bacteria can be made to spin spider silk [more]
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