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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - comprising some 3,000 scientists worldwide - recently came forward with its 4^th assessment of global climate change.

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Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize has increased the awareness of one of the most pressing issues of our time, global climate change.

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[Date: 2007-10-29]
A team of EU-funded researchers has worked out the structure of a membrane protein, which is responsible for transmitting messages from the outside of the cell to the inside.

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[Date: 2007-10-03]
The Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN; formerly the Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network - CEEHRN) has warned of a hidden hepatitis C epidemic.

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[Date: 2007-08-21]
Nordic countries, with the notable exception of Denmark, have the highest cancer survival rates in Europe, according to a study published in The Lancet Oncology journal.

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[Date: 2007-07-10]
The chemical composition of stars that host planets has persuaded astronomers that planetary debris falling onto the outer layer of the star produces a detectable effect in a dwarf star.

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[Date: 2007-07-05]
Helping the blind to see is the driving force behind the researchers of the EU-funded EVI-GENORET (European Vision Institute - Functional Genomics of the Retina in Health and Disease) project.

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The complex mechanism of this ancient astronomical clock has been reconstructed thanks to high-resolution X-ray tomografy analysis.

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By using the RNA interference technique (RNAi) for which the American scientists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology this year, a German team led by Alexander Pfeifer of the University of Bonn has been able to prolong the life expectancy of mice infected with Scrapie.

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A team of Israeli and American linguists described a new Sign Language spontaneously originated over a span of 70 years in a Beduin village in Negev's desert. Al Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language offers a unique opportunity to study the birth of a language in real time.