4. January 2008
Food for Thought: delivering the promise of food processing
Humans have transformed raw ingredients into food since prehistoric times. But scientists are still looking for new ways to make food taste better and survive longer. Presenting their findings at a recent European Science Foundation (ESF) and European Cooperation in the field of... [more]
13. December 2007
EuroBioForum Sows the Seeds for Future Life Sciences Initiatives in Europe
A meeting of researchers, administrators and funding agencies has laid the foundations for a key part of Europe’s future research strategy in the life sciences.The EuroBioForum conference in Lisbon, Portugal on 6 and 7 December, organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and the European... [more]
8. December 2007
Far flung food: Europe's distant diets
ESF-COST conference examines food’s journey from outside of the EU [more]
4. December 2007
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... [more]
26. November 2007
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 [more]
21. November 2007
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... [more]
15. November 2007
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... [more]
13. November 2007
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,... [more]
30. October 2007
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... [more]
26. October 2007
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... [more]
