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• DTI Research and Development Scoreboard

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  DTI Research and Development Scoreboard...

• Results of the 4th Community Innovation Survey (CIS 4) in Portugal

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  The Observatório da Ciência e do Ensino Superior (OCES) presents the summary of the main results of the 4th Community Innovation Survey (CIS 4) in Portugal, concerning business innovation activities for the period of 2002-2004. This survey,...

• Research says massage may help infants sleep more, cry less and be less stressed

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  New research by a team at the University of Warwick says that massage may help infants aged under six months sleep better, cry less and be less stressed....

• Naked Scientist wins Science Communication Award

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  The Biosciences Federation (BSF) will present its Science Communication Award to Dr Christopher Smith (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) for his extensive work communicating microbiology and other scientific research to the ...

• Pioneering New Research Centre to Examine Beginnings of Universe

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  The University of Cambridge and the Kavli Foundation have announced their intention to establish a new institute to probe the beginnings of the cosmos at the University of Cambridge. Led by Professor George Efstathiou, the Kavli Institute f...

• ESSP Launches New Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  The Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) has recently launched a Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS) and will share details of the study, as well as outline research needs and knowledge gaps in the understanding of Monsoon Asi...

• Media Invitation: Open Science Conference to focus on regional sustainability challenges to the Earth System

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  From the Amazon to Monsoon Asia to sub-Saharan Africa, regions around the world are facing unprecedented challenges induced by global environmental change. How regions can cope with the consequences of natural and human-driven changes to th...

• ALTRAN - Ecobuilding Performance Forum

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  ALTRAN presents the concept of "Ecodesign", environmentally friendly methods of constructing buildings, as well as giving participants the opportunity to vote on an environmentally friendly project which will then be presented at ALTRAN DAY...

• Scientists harness diptheria toxin and interleukin 2 to help the immune system attack melanoma in humans: phase II trial continues

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  Researchers investigating ways of prompting the immune system to recognise and kill tumour cells have found that a drug containing parts of the diptheria toxin appears to work well in patients with advanced melanoma, according to research p...

• Researchers identify cells that make relapse inevitable after treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  Scientists in Australia have discovered that in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) there are good and evil clones of the same type of ALL cell. The evil cells are clones that have a pre-existing, rather than acquired, resistance to drugs u...

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