Big shot in the mind field

Article Abstract:

Francis Crick, aged 79, who has been researching consciousness with Christof Koch since the mid 1980s, believes that interest in the subject has expanded too much, which could have a detrimental effect. In April 1996 there was an interdisciplinary conference on consciousness in Tucson, AZ, Crick is concerned that flow of results will be gradual, with subsequent antipathy towards consciousness, and that the concept will become outmoded. There have not been many results so far, but media coverage has been too intense.

Interview, Consciousness, Crick, Francis

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Breaths of fresh air

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Oxford University, England, has set up a company called Oxagen which has been given a license to develop asthma products by researchers into the condition at the university. Spin-offs are maintaining strong links with universities that gave birth to them. Oxford has a number of business incubators, though not all British universities are as fortunate, and the US is far ahead in the field of business incubation. The private sector and universities have set up 80 business incubators, in Britain, with 20 more planned.

United Kingdom, Economic aspects, Universities and colleges, Business and education, Industry and education, Research parks

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Wellcome bias stirs up unions

Article Abstract:

Wellcome Trust plans to set up a new synchrotron radiation source in Oxfordshire, England, using the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England, had also competed for the facility. RAL's attractions include its strengths in biological sciences and physics, and the existence of a radiobiology and genetics unit of the Medical Research Council. Rutherford also has Isis, a netron source, and international collaboration.

Investments, Industrial research, Wellcome Trust

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