It has long been known that people with blood type O are protected from dying of severe malaria. In a study published in Nature Medicine, a team of Scandinavian scientists explains the mechanisms behind the protection that blood type O … Read the full press release
BIRMINGHAM, 9-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Construction of the University of Birmingham’s new sports centre hit new heights this week as the building was officially ‘topped out’ on Wednesday (March 4). The centre, on the corner of Bristol Road and Edgbaston … Read the full press release
Posted in Construction, Education, Sports, United Kingdom
Tagged new sports centre, Simon Walton, University of Birmingham, Zena Wooldridge
Abertis Foundation, Barcelona City Council, Catalan Down Syndrome Foundation, Teléfonica, and public transport operator Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona, launch KanGo! to help school children from the neighbourhood of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi (Barcelona) to travel to school alone on public transport. KanGO! … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Management, Society, Spain, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged abertis foundation, Barcelona City Council, KanGo!, New project in Barcelona, public transport operator, Te-léfonica, the Catalan Down Syndrome Foundation, to help school children travel to school alone on public transport, Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona
MAMMI study to make mothers’ invisible health problems visible. The new longitudinal study from Trinity College Dublin will look across a range of health issues affecting pregnant women and first time mothers. Early results from one strand show a high … Read the full press release
Approximately 400 mothers and newborns die in Ethiopia each day1,2partly due to health workers’ limited knowledge in the area of obstetrics Enhancing medical knowledge and skills of health workers helps reduce maternal and newborn mortality Sandoz is committed to increasing … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Germany, Healthcare, Management, Society
Tagged Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care trainings, Ethiopian Midwives Association, improving maternal and child health, Ludmilla Reina, New Life & New Hope program, reduce maternal and newborn mortality, reduce mortality associated with childbirth in Ethiopia, Sandoz, United Nations, Women’s Day
NOTTINGHAM, 4-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — A University of Nottingham physicist has won a major European grant to uncover more secrets of the mind-bending world of quantum matter. Dr Gerardo Adesso will use the 1.35M Euro Starting Grant from the European … Read the full press release
NOTTINGHAM, 4-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The University of Nottingham is set to host the first ever triathlon to take place on its University Park Campus. Organised by students, the sprint triathlon will see staff, students and members of the public … Read the full press release
COPENHAGEN, 4-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Dust plays an extremely important role in the universe – both in the formation of planets and new stars. But dust was not there from the beginning and the earliest galaxies had no dust, only … Read the full press release
COPENHAGEN, 4-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Carlsberg Foundation has awarded Professor Vincent F. Hendricks 1,92 million euros to establish the Centre for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) which is to be located at The Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. … Read the full press release
PARIS, 3-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The joint technology development project is part of a renewable, four-year scientific partnership agreement signed by Thales and École Polytechnique on the 11th of March 2014. For this new project, the partners will build on their complementary … Read the full press release
Scientists have identified weak spots in cancer cells that could be targeted and attacked by new precision drugs. BRIGHTON, 2-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — A major computational analysis by scientists at the University of Sussex and The Institute of Cancer Research, … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Healthcare, Science, United Kingdom
Tagged Cancer Research UK, Daphne Jackson Trust, Dr Bissan Al-Lazikani, Dr Frances Pearl, drugs that exploit the inherent weaknesses of cancer cells, Nature Reviews Cancer, Professor Laurence Pearl, Professor Paul Workman, The Institute of Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research scientists, Tony Carr, University of Sussex
Umeå, Sweden, 3-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — People who use snus run twice the risk of developing alcohol dependency compared with non-users, and the more one uses snus, the higher the risk. This has been found in a study from Umeå … Read the full press release
OXFORD, 2-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Average house prices in the South East, and especially London, rose even faster during 2014 (January to December) than in the same period of 2013, says new research by Professor Danny Dorling of Oxford University. … Read the full press release
OXFORD, 2-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — A diagnosis of depression is associated with a threefold increase in the risk of committing violent crime, compared to the general population, according to a new study based on nearly 50,000 people in Sweden diagnosed … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Healthcare, Science, Society, Sweden, United Kingdom
Tagged committing violent crime, depression, Oxford University, Professor Seena Fazel
Une étude internationale, associant des climatologues français, montre que la contribution du CO2 à la perturbation du climat par les activités humaines va en augmentant, conduisant, en 2030, à réduire de 50 % l’incertitude sur la sensibilité du climat à … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Environment, France, Industrial, Science
Tagged CLIMAT, Drew Shindell, François-Marie Bréon, Gunnar Myhre, Nature Geoscience, Olivier Boucher, Piers Forster, POLYTECHNIQUE
LONDON, 23-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Even short breaks from school can reduce a pupil’s chances of succeeding at school by as much as a quarter, research reveals today (22 February 2015). The research, based on extensive pupil absence figures and … Read the full press release
Concentrated solar power can be part of the solution for sustainable energy in the future — not least in those developing countries where sunshine is plentiful. STOCKHOLM, 23-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — One of the few solar laboratories in the world … Read the full press release
Apply SDN to the entire backhaul, transport and core of an LTE network Approved ETSI NFV Proof of Concept Milestone in design and implementation of future mobile networks Espoo, Finland, 18-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Nokia Networks and Aalto University, Finland, together with … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Management, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Aalto, Aalto University, Coriant, EXFO, FutureWorks, INNOVATION, Jose Costa-Requena, Lauri Oksanen, mobile backhaul, NFV, Nokia, Nokia Networks, PoC, SDN, software defined networking, virtualization
Registration for the 2015 academic year starts on February 16th Toulouse, 17-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Lycée Airbus is currently one of the few company secondary schools that still exist in France. Each year it trains nearly 350 young students … Read the full press release
Newcastle, UK, 13-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Defra today announced £14.5 million of new investment in the Food and Environment Research Agency through a joint venture with Capita and Newcastle University. Capita plc (‘Capita’) has been selected, following a competitive procurement process, as the … Read the full press release
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