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EU move against mercury should be adopted in India: NGO

June 22 : A Delhi-based environmental group Friday welcomed the European Union (EU) Parliament’s resolution to ban mercury trade which causes environmental pollution, and urged the Indian government to do likewise.

New international health regulations to enter into force tomorrow

June 14 : The revised International Health Regulations (IHR) will enter into force on Friday. The regulations consist of a comprehensive and tested set of rules and procedures, which

BBSRC launches policy to share research data

New ways of making sure that UK scientists can make the most of the huge amounts of data coming out of bioscience research are outlined in a policy published

Indian Pharmaceutical Policy referred to ministerial panel

April 30 : The draft National Pharmaceutical Policy has been referred to a Group of Ministers (GOM) though no timeframe has been set for its finalisation, Lok Sabha was informed Monday.

Scheme gives new researchers a leg-up

A scheme that helps new bioscience researchers to set up their own labs and establish a track record in research has been given an overwhelming vote of approval in a new survey of participants and heads of university bioscience departments.

San Diego Stem Cell Consortium Tops in State Funding

The San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (SDCRM) leads California in grants and funding following the approval of Comprehensive Research Grants by the state’s stem cell agency.

1.9 $ million for research on women’s and children’s health

A research group at Karolinska Institutet/Center for Family and Community Medicine has been granted $1.9 million (approximately SKr 13.5 million) to study how

SKr 800 million for development of biotech firms

Karolinska Institutet´s innovations system for the commercialisation of medical discoveries is unique in the world. We have now accumulated a total of 800 million kronor

USC Receives Nearly $3.4 Million for Stem Cell Research

Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) receive approximately $3.4 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) for stem cell research.