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Schumacher’s Swiss dream home bugs locals

This content was published on Feb 14, 2002 However Schumacher said on Tuesday – through his Swiss lawyer Peter Münch – he was prepared to talk with opponents of his planned multi-million Swiss franc base. Germany’s reigning world champion has called Switzerland home for several years, living with his family in the French-speaking town of Vufflens-de-Château, near Lake Geneva. But last year the…

MS treatment lifts Serono sales

This content was published on Feb 13, 2002 The Geneva-based company’s net income was up to $316.7 million (SFr534.6), with Rebif sales up 54.1 per cent to reach $338.4 million. Sales as a whole increased 15 per cent to $1.249 billion. The figures were in line with analysts expectations but there was further good news as the company announced expected the US Food…

Roche signs deal on anti-obesity drugs

This content was published on Feb 11, 2002 In a statement, Roche said its collaboration with Vernalis aimed to develop highly selective 5-HT2C receptor agonists as appetite suppressants. In 1997, Vernalis scientists discovered that these receptors played an important roleIn controlling the feeling of being full after eating. In many obese people, this mechanism does not appear to function and leads to the…

Biowall: the self-repairing, self-cloning computer

This content was published on Feb 11, 2002 Computer scientists at the Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) have taken their inspiration from nature. The Biowall – a 6 square metre concave wall – is the closest a computer has ever been to resembling a living organism. This “bio-inspired” supercomputer, then, is embryonic in more ways than one. The Biowall, a mosaic of 3,000…

Doctors consider cocaine prescription

This content was published on Feb 11, 2002 Positive results from Switzerland’s heroin prescription programme, which show patients achieving better health and a more stable life style, have led some doctors to believe that cocaine addicts could be helped in the same way. Dr Daniel Meili, who is chief medical officer for Zurich’s heroin prescription programme, is pleased with the way patients on…

Swiss wedding bells fall silent

This content was published on Feb 10, 2002 Figures released by the Federal Statistics Office show that the number of couples taking their wedding vows dropped by 12 per cent, from 39,758 in 2000 to around 35,000 in 2001. It was the biggest recorded fall since 1913. “It’s difficult to pinpoint why there was such a substantial drop last year – but it…

Swiss researchers have stars in their eyes

This content was published on Feb 9, 2002 The team, part of an international research mission from Switzerland, Italy, Australia and the United States, believes the discovery could shed light on the creation and development of galaxy clusters in the universe. The astronomers, who are working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, discovered the stars inside the Virgo cluster of galaxies…

Swiss-American study focuses on climate change

This content was published on Feb 8, 2002 The Swiss-American team developed a method to gauge the effect of chemicals found in aerosols in the Earth’s atmosphere and weather. Particles of these chemicals are thought to form clouds that can be seen from the Earth and can be detected in the layer of condensation surrounding aircraft. A member of the ETH team, Ulrich…

Eco-friendly backpacking in Lausanne

This content was published on Feb 7, 2002 Staying the night at the Lausanne Guest House is easy on the pocketbook and the environment. Dormitory beds cost SFr26 ($15) a night and the hotel is the first in Switzerland to meet stringent ecological standards. The hardest job of Anne-Marie Elmiger, who opened the backpacker hotel last August with her two brothers, is to…

Swiss provide expertise for NASA mission

This content was published on Feb 4, 2002 On Tuesday, the American space agency, NASA, is launching its High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, or HESSI, to determine the sun’s energetic X-ray and gamma-ray emissions. The satellite will be launched aboard an orbital science Pegasus rocket, which will be dropped from the belly of the Orbital Sciences’ L-1011 “Stargazer” aircraft 39,000 feet above the…

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