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• Systemic treatment before surgery for kidney cancer prolongs patients survival

  AlphaGalileo 08/11/2006

  Preliminary results from a phase II clinical trial have provided the first evidence that treating people with kidney cancer with bevacizumab and erlotinib before surgery is safe, effective and may prolong patients survival, according to res...

• Bones at the nanoscale -Scientists see with X-rays how bones resist strain thanks to their nano and micro structure

  AlphaGalileo 07/11/2006

  Scientists from Max Planck Institute (Germany) and the ESRF have just discovered the way deformation at the nanoscale takes place in a bone by studying it with the synchrotron X-rays. This study explains the enor-mous stability and deformab...

• New research to investigate shared shrines

  AlphaGalileo 07/11/2006

  Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, is to embark on research that will challenge assumptions about the exclusiveness of religious identities, practices and communities....

• Cut from Different Cloth

  AlphaGalileo 07/11/2006

  VLT Shows Milky Way's Neighbouring Galaxies Have Different History A large survey, made with ESO's VLT, has shed light on our Galaxy's ancestry. After determining the chemical composition of over 2000 stars in the four nearest dwarf galaxie...

• Weekly ISS-Astrolab Highlights #13 / ESA TV Exchanges / 08-11-2006

  AlphaGalileo 07/11/2006

  The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:08-Nov-06 10:00 - 10:30 GMTWeekly ISS-Astrolab Highlights #13ESA TV Exchanges...

• Highlighting the natural sciences

  AlphaGalileo 07/11/2006

  The national LUMA Centre in Finland, promoting the teaching of LUMA subjects (biology, chemistry, geography, physics and mathematics) and technology, calls on schools from kindergarten to university level as well as businesses and associati...

• Seminar on Building Open Innovation Platforms in Biotechnology in Copenhagen

  AlphaGalileo 07/11/2006

  The EU funded ScanBalt project Intellectual Property Knowledge Network continues with its seminar Building Open Innovation Platforms in Bioscience its successful seminar series. The venue on November 23, 2006 in Copenhagen/DK will focus on ...

• Vaccine-producing plant-factories

  AlphaGalileo 07/11/2006

  A research team at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) has discovered a new route for the transport of proteins in plant cells, a discovery that will enable the biotechnological design of plant factories....

• New RFID solutions for logistics and industry

  AlphaGalileo 07/11/2006

  The Tekes' E-Business Logistics technology programme,ELO, ran from 2002 to 2005. The ELO programme increased the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology in logistics solutions. For example, the programme facilitated the deve...

• Scientists discover way to block growth of prostate cancer cells

  AlphaGalileo 07/11/2006

  Scientists have discovered for the first time a specific biochemical pathway by which the sex hormone, androgen, increases levels of harmful chemicals called reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the prostate gland that play a role in the develo...

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