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Tissue engineering on a mission to Japan
The Royal Academy of Engineering is sponsoring a UK technology mission to Japan on behalf of the DTI to investigate recent developments in tissue engineering and related advanced technologies. The Mission team, comprising a number of high-level experts, will visit Japan from 7 to 12 April. Tissue... view more (2003-03-28)

Eight institutes observe the climate together
Cooperation to better follow, understand and predict the climate Eight institutes observe the climate together On Thursday 23 May 2002, an agreement will be signed in Cabauw by 8 cooperating institutes situated in the Netherlands. The cooperation project is called CESAR, and is in the form of a... view more (2002-05-21)

Four million pounds for innovation and knowledge transfer
Innovative ideas in science and technology will benefit from a £4 million award which was recently announced by the DTI. The Rainbow Seed Fund will back technology-based opportunities from a powerful partnership of leading UK research teams to stimulate the creation of world class business... view more (2001-10-19)

Amateurs shown to have crucial role in scientific discovery
Everyone knows how science is advanced. We can all picture the serried rows of white-coated scientists working methodically in their laboratories, with instruments flickering and bright towers of glassware on every bench. The way that a new discovery sweeps across the world is familiar to everyone.... view more (2000-05-24)

New microchip technology gives artificial limb users more movement
Advanced Control Research Ltd (ACR) is developing a new microchip system that will give prosthetic arm users more movement and control of their artificial limbs thanks to an Invention & Innovation award of £65,000 from NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts),... view more (2003-06-09)

Saltwater solution to save crops
Technology under development at the University of New South Wales could offer new hope to farmers in drought-affected and marginal areas by enabling crops to grow using salty groundwater.   view more (2008-09-12)

Awards for Technology of the Future
Projects to share £12m in funding The use of new technology to grow human tissue, such as knee cartilage to treat people with sports injuries, is among seven projects to share £12 million in Government funding, Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Sainsbury, announced today. This... view more (2001-07-18)

VTT and the French Atomic Energy Commission CEA sign a cooperation agreement on nuclear energy research
VTT`s Director General, Erkki KM Lepp'¤vuori and the French CEA`s Director, Pascal Colombani signed an agreement on research cooperation in Paris . The agreement covers technology and research cooperations in the fields of spent nuclear fuels and nuclear waste management, nuclear research, training... view more (2002-11-14)

Development of commercialisation in Canada: the adolescent years
The current metrics used to measure performance in the Canadian technology transfer sector are too heavily reliant on activity and economic benefits, and should reflect a broader view of the benefits of technology transfer, including societal benefits and technology uptake.   view more (2005-04-27)

XML Web Services - between hype and hope
Web Services is currently one of the hottest issues in the software industry. There are good reasons for predicting a success of Web Services. However, there are still a number of open issues. Is Web Services just another technology hype or the beginning of a new era in the evolution of information... view more (2003-07-07)

ARES fills the vacuum
Ares Research Technology, a new start-up company which will design and assemble scientific equipment that works at ultra-high vacuum, was launched today at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory. The company will supply advanced instruments for use on X-ray sources in laboratories and at synchrotron light... view more (2005-04-05)

Ares Fill The Vacuum
Ares Research Technology, a new start-up company which will design and assemble scientific equipment that works at ultra-high vacuum, was launched today at CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory. The company will supply advanced instruments for use on X-ray sources in laboratories and at synchrotron light... view more (2005-04-01)

Television phones to become a reality
Talking to your family and friends through your television could soon become a reality, if the set-top-box technology developed by Red Embedded Design Co Ltd receives the investment it is looking for at the Connect Yorkshire Springboard Investment Conference today.   view more (2004-11-30)

Chalmers first with integrated receiver for high frequency applications
As the first research group in the world, researchers at Chalmers have succeeded in combining a receiver for high frequencies with an antenna on a small chip.   view more (2007-11-29)

Lund research on software engineering on list of world's best
Swedish Software engineering research has now been included for the first time on the list of the world's best, thanks to a research team at the Lund Institute of Technology that was started by Professor Claes Wohlin in the early 1990s (now of the Blekinge Institute of Technology) and that is now... view more (2003-08-21)

New Honorary Doctor: Joseph Juran - World Number 1 In Quality Development
For his contributions to changing the view of quality development in modern society, Lule'å University of Technology is conferring upon the American Joseph Juran the title of honorary doctor. The nearly 100-year-old Joseph Juran heads one of the world's most successful consulting companies in... view more (2004-06-23)

£1 Million For Research Project At The Royal College Of Art
The Computer Related Design Research Studio at the Royal College of Art has been awarded more than £1 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as a partner in the six year EQUATOR project.   view more (2002-04-18)

Yellow Dates Bruising
Optical technology can give the answer to when bruising happened and how. This can be important for cases of violent crime.   view more (2004-11-03)

World-class Research Labs Ready To Go
Research into a range of common medical conditions including heart disease, memory impairment, diabetes and deafness will receive a major boost with the opening on October 31 of new, £9 million laboratories at Bristol University. Called the Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrated Cell... view more (2001-10-18)

Chemists detect toxic emissions linked to catalytic converters in US
A study scheduled for publication in the Dec. 15 issue of the American Chemical Society's journal, Environmental Science and Technology, shows that for the first time, toxic metals emitted from automotive catalytic converters have been detected in urban air in the United States.   view more (2005-12-06)

University of Strathclyde DNA researcher wins Royal Society of Chemistry Award
A DNA researcher at the University of Strathclyde has been awarded over £200,000 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr Duncan Graham has won the prestigious Analytical Grand Prix Fellowship in recognition of his groundbreaking research into DNA diagnostics. Dr Graham`s winning entry involves... view more (2002-09-04)

Crop plants and domestic animals piggy-back on the Human Genome Project
A new £4.5M funding initiative to exploit developments in genome analysis of crops and livestock has been launched by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The scheme Genome Analysis of Agriculturally Important Traits (GAIT) will support research to identify,... view more (1997-11-21)

Mathematicians find way to improve medical scans
Mathematicians at the University of Liverpool have found that it is possible to gain full control of sound waves which could lead to improved medical scans, for technology such as ultra sound machines.   view more (2008-01-08)

The BA comments of GM debate
The public debate over whether Britain should push ahead with genetically modified (GM) crops opened yesterday in Birmingham to some criticism from the media. There are three strands to the Government's consultation process into GM technology - the science strand, economic strand and the public... view more (2003-06-04)

AlphaGalileo receives major grant from the EC
The EC has awarded 787,000 euros over two years to AlphaGalileo Europe. This will place the service in a truly unique position to promote European science, engineering and technology. The award has been made to The BA and its partners, Forschungzentrum Jülich GmbH, The Academy of Finland,... view more (2001-05-22)

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