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New academy probes social impact of sport

This content was published on Feb 7, 2001 The International Academy of Sports Science and Techniques (AISTS) is a tangible sign of how sport has encroached into a whole range of other fields, from commerce to medicine, from psychology to law, and aroused the interest of disciplines which until recently were not associated with it. “This academy is an integrated response to a…

Swiss mosquito net programme slashes malaria rate in Africa

This content was published on Feb 6, 2001 The pilot project, conducted by the Swiss Tropical Institute in Basel and funded by the Swiss Development Agency, will expand into a national programme in the spring. “There have been two notable successes,” said project leader, Dr Christian Lengeler. “The first is that the update rate has been very good. “After two years of the…

Dormant accounts of Einstein and Freud held at Swiss banks

This content was published on Feb 5, 2001 The list of accounts reveals that Einstein, registered as a resident of Germany, holds one or more open or suspended dormant accounts at Swiss banks, which he opened between 1933 and 1945, as does Freud, an Austrian. It is not clear whether any funds are still in these accounts, or why the two men –…

Elcoteq buys Swiss electronics unit from ABB

This content was published on Feb 5, 2001 “The acquisition strengthens Elcoteq’s industrial electronics, which is one of our three focus areas,” the group said in a statement on Monday. It added that the acquisition would nearly double Elcoteq’s industrial electronics business in 2001. The unit, based in canton Aargau, has annual sales of SFr108 million ($65.85 million), Elcoteq said. The statement said:…

EU gives green light to Serono MS drug

This content was published on Feb 5, 2001 The company said the EU had also recommended the treatment as a first-line therapy for patients with relapsing-remitting MS, the most common form of the disease. Serono said the Commission’s approval was based on a four-year study, which provided clinical evidence that a high dose of Rebif administered as early as possible after the onset…

Necessity really is the mother of invention

This content was published on Feb 2, 2001 How are great ideas born? What’s the impetus behind them? Gery Colombo, head of research at the paraplegic centre in Zurich, developed a system for training patients with spinal cord injuries on a treadmill. For him, the motivation was simple. “In Zurich, we did manual assisted treadmill training for eight years. It was very hard…

Swiss arrive home after rescuing Indian quake victims

This content was published on Feb 1, 2001 The 52 members of the Swiss Rescue Chain and their nine sniffer dogs abandoned their search after pulling out eight people alive from ruined buildings in the cities of Ahmedabad and Bhuj. The last person to be rescued, a 55 year-old woman, was found late Tuesday after spending 114 hours trapped in the debris. But…

Experts make sense of science

This content was published on Feb 1, 2001 University professors, science journalists and directors of museums and science centres are holding a three-day conference at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. Paula Catapano, spokeswoman for CERN, said one difficulty was that the world of pure research was far removed from the realities and preoccupations of everyday life. She said another problem was jargon.…

Organic farming comes of age

This content was published on Jan 30, 2001 Speaking in Basel on Tuesday, they described some of the ways in which they are harnessing nature to improve crop yields and combat plant diseases. One classic success story has been in strawberry production where the berry can be destroyed by grey mould fungal disease. Another fungus can be used to attack the grey mould…

Petition urges improved animal protection

This content was published on Jan 30, 2001 The group behind the petition, Swiss Animal Protection (STS), says domestic, working and laboratory animals are all subject to selective breeding to produce or enhance certain characteristics. The results include cats with no fur, dogs with wrinkled skins and rabbits with over-long ears. According to STS president, Marianne Staub, animal breeds are often “created” to…

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