11 April 2002
High levels of prions can collect in muscles as well as in the central nervous system and lymphatic tissues.
11 April 2002
The European commission has to refund 600f the compensation paid out by a member state for animals slaughtered.
10 April 2002
European researchers into BSE and CJD are to receive a further £7 million.
11 April 2002
The country is probably the cleanest place on earth for animals and there is a plentiful supply of them.
11 April 2002
Sixty-seven percent of vaccinated cats were protected against FIV, while 74 percent of non-vaccinated cats became infected.
11 April 2002
The idea is to breed billions of male flies in captivity, sterilise them, and then spray them across the bush.
11 April 2002
At stake is the validity of patents on a technology that is still commercially unproven, but could be worth many millions
of dollars in future years.
11 April 2002
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has declared that it is in a crisis mode.
11 April 2002
The disease bears similarities to a Campylobacter infection that killed half of the pups born in 1998.
11 April 2002
The model quantifies the rate of disease movement at natural barriers, such as rivers or mountains.
11 April 2002
Not only fast, but highly replicable, it is like a barcode, with no room for ambiguity.
11 April 2002
Evolution can be very predictable.
11 April 2002
The human genome codes for at least 65,747 distinct transcripts.
11 April 2002
Europeans launch genomics triumvirate
11 April 2002
The future use of therapeutic cloning is not decades away, but just around the corner.
11 April 2002
High numbers of fetuses are aborting for no apparent reason.
11 April 2002
In early pregnancy it is not only important to have the right diet, but also to avoid stress, if possible.
11 April 2002
Lipid raft formation is a general first step in platelet activation.
11 April 2002
Something as simple as a fish could be used to allow heart regeneration in higher mammals and even someday in humans.
11 April 2002
There are huge engineering and mathematical problems that the researchers had to overcome to make the experiments possible.
12 April 2002
Loss of Hox expression from the mandibular arch of gnathostomes may have facilitated the evolution of jaws.
11 April 2002
Mice lacking receptors for neuropeptide Y have larger and stronger bones than normal.
10 April 2002
No other MRC scientist has made such an outstanding contribution to Britain's science, health and wealth creation.
11 April 2002
Irradiation equipment to sterilise letters, packages and parcels in the US mail could be putting legitimate biological material
at risk.
11 April 2002
Much of what passes for interdisciplinary research may be mere lip-service.
11 April 2002
Ultimately the Science Grid will be able to process more than five trillion calculations per second.
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11 April 2002
Science is increasingly the battlefield on which political advocates manipulate 'facts' to their preferred direction.
11 April 2002
Australia's doctors are reluctant to use the Internet because it is too slow and information is hard to find.
11 April 2002
A free online Focus on hematopoietic stem cells.
10 April 2002
Can you believe what you read?
24 April 2002
Ticks transmit an enormous range of pathogens, providing an awesome challenge to vaccine developers.
24 April 2002
The elk industry exploded in the early 1990s when the animal's velvet antlers began to attract prices of up to $200 a kilogram.
24 April 2002
The woman was born and raised in Britain and lived there at the height of that country's BSE epidemic.
24 April 2002
Scrapie costs U.S. producers $20 to $25 million every year, much of it attributable to loss of sales from abroad.
24 April 2002
Beijing customs has seized cosmetics items imported from countries where mad cow disease has been found.
24 April 2002
If a lab is producing large quantities of the virus, selective pressures could lead to a human pathogen.
24 April 2002
The question of whether viruses are discrete spherical particles or form filamentous-type bodies has implications for how
they spread from cell to cell.
24 April 2002
Cluster analysis could potentially be used to develop new vaccine protocols.
24 April 2002
The most complete online work for anyone interested in the role of cytokines in host defense processes.
24 April 2002
Videos of cell movements show cells that are reminiscent of a balloon being pushed through a too-small ring.
24 April 2002
It may eventually help physicians to predict the course of a patient's disease and decide how to treat it.
24 April 2002
They can detect and destroy all diseased or cancerous cells, not just the 10 to 15 per cent targeted by monoclonal antibodies.
24 April 2002
Scientists first attempted to transfuse blood from animals to humans in the early 1600s.
24 April 2002
Progesterone receptors clearly influence neuronal development in previously unthought ways.
24 April 2002
The company asks for help in dispelling myths and raising awareness of the contributions Baytril makes.
24 April 2002
The method could eventually be used as a therapeutic tool to silence oncogenes, or the cell surface receptor for HIV.
24 April 2002
Nobody knows whether he falsified the data to make it more palatable, or whether he was doing it all subconsciously.
24 April 2002
The lack of investment could threaten Britain's scientific future.
24 April 2002
The Institute for Advanced Studies will employ 20 research fellows from various disciplines and will tackle complex problems
in biology.
24 April 2002
The current range of postgraduate degrees confuses foreign institutes.
24 April 2002
The excellence of science and technology in Europe is long overdue for commercialisation.
24 April 2002
ECAR will have its first examination for candidates applying to become a Diplomat
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