Projects include development of: (i) new anti-retroviral treatments to overcome growing resistance of the virus; (ii) new interventions for the treatment of HIV-infected infants, pregnant women and adults; (iii) HIV microbicides to allow women that do not have the capacity to impose HIV prevention measures (safer sex through condom use) on their partners to protect themselves against HIV transmission; (iv) new and promising HIV vaccine candidates not only to prevent the HIV infection, but also to treat infected people; (v) new anti-HIV drugs against hidden virus that can not be accessed by other drugs, and against the escape of the virus from ...[+++] infected cells, (vi) vaccine delivery systems to fight viruses; and (vi) specific support actions for standardising clinical tests and monitoring HIV resistance.

There are a great many Canadians who as a matter of faith believe that life begins at conception and that part of the resistance to using embryonic cells for research is this whole idea that we are dealing with cells that have to do with the fundamentals of an individual human being (1215) I can only say how I react to that.

B. whereas the said patent embraces within its description in paragraph 0011 “all animal cells, especially of mammalian species, including human cells” and Claim 48 of the patent is for the use of such “animal cells” to produce an embryo enabling germline transmission of the selectable marker (for example a herpes virus or an antibiotic resistance gene),

A. whereas the said patent embraces within its description in paragraph 0011 “all animal cells, especially of mammalian species, including human cells” and Claim 48 of the patent is for the use of such “animal cells” to produce an embryo enabling germline transmission of the selectable marker (for example a herpes virus or an antibiotic resistance gene),

B. whereas the said patent embraces within its description in paragraph 0011 “all animal cells, especially of mammalian species, including human cells” and Claim 48 of the patent is for the use of such “animal cells” to produce an embryo enabling germline transmission of the selectable marker (for example a herpes virus or an antibiotic resistance gene),

Four laboratories of three Member States aim to develop a surface treatment process for ceramic components using a CO2 laser to improve their mechanical strength; d nine different partners (including several motor and aeronautical manufacturers) are working together on a project to use lasers to weld sheet metal; two univerrsity laboratories (one British, one French) and a British company plan to develop new biocompatible polymers based - 3 - on the imitation of cell membranes; a Franco-Italian project involving three industrial firms and a research insitute plans to develop an automatic system for the manufacture, pre-correction of de ...[+++]fects and matching of pieces of cloth; five organizations from three different countries (Netherlands, Germany and Ireland) are working on the development of a computer-aided system for designing clothes, etc.