Archives for May 4, 2003

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Hope for FP6

Architects of the new instruments for the Sixth Framework Programme will be heartened by news that a German report on the country's networks of competence has concluded that such arrangements stimulate innovation and, in turn, give impetus to greater...

Amersham meets modest targets in Q1

UK life sciences group Amersham has reported first-quarter 2003 sales of £381 million (€544m), flat on the same period of 2002 but up 6 per cent if unfavourable currency impacts and discontinued product sales were excluded. The results were in line...

Scientists investigate oldest form of life on earth

Research into genomes of the natural world took a step forward this week with the announcement from Diversa corporation that it is to jointly collaborate with the US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) to discover and sequence novel...