EU research projects provide fresh insights into what it takes for communities to accept different religious and world views. By ALISON JONES Ann Trappers harnessed a shock in her native Belgium to help heal social wounds across Europe. After Islamic terrorist attacks in Brussels in March 2016 left 35 people – including three suicide bombers – … Read more
Touch sensations are improving to help sectors like healthcare and manufacturing, while other advances are being driven by the gaming industry. By HELEN MASSY-BERESFORD Imagine a single technology that could help a robot perform safety checks at a nuclear plant, cure a person’s arachnophobia and simulate the feeling of a hug from a distant relative. Welcome … Read more
EU-backed scientists are making progress in efforts to give people with impaired motor functions more independence. By MICHAEL ALLEN In 2009, a former US policeman named Richard Marsh suffered a severe stroke that left him completely paralysed but conscious – a condition known as locked-in syndrome. Little more than four months later, in a miracle of … Read more
As African swine fever stalks the EU’s biggest livestock population, researchers aim to deploy a vaccine to halt the disease’s spread and shield millions of animals. By ANTHONY KING The fate of millions of pigs in Europe could be decided this coming winter in a Hungarian forest. There, EU researchers plan to test a vaccine … Read more
Recent research findings may help ease an illness that causes enlarged ovaries. By Vittoria D’Alessio When Emelyne Heluin of France was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a hormonal disorder that causes enlarged ovaries with cysts, her symptoms included weight gain, hair loss, fatigue and pain. She was forced to quit her longtime hobbies … Read more
EU research is uncovering ways to treat a deadly tumour on the rise around the world. By ANTHONY KING Brain surgeons need steady hands as well as cool heads. Now they’re getting a helping hand from researchers in Europe to fight a fatal type of brain cancer called glioblastoma. A Danish biotechnology company named FluoGuide led … Read more