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Education and employment authorities, organisations, companies and citizens from EU Member States count today with specific tools to improve and...
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It was estimated that, in 2012, nearly 140,000 patients in Europe were newly diagnosed with cancer of the stomach, and 107,000 Europeans died from...
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JRC scientists contributed to the development of an advanced data analysis method enabling the retrieval of thermodynamic and structural parameters of...
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JRC scientists, in collaboration with the EU FP7 funded project NanoMile, developed a flexible method to prepare size controlled and surface modified...
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The European Commission's Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) has expanded the datasets within its Dynamic Data Hub to cover migration...
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Under JRC's leadership and in the frame of the EU-funded FP7 flagship project NANoREG, a team of experts in different fields (physicochemical...
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The JRC's European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (EURL ECVAM) has published its recommendation on the use of non...
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Aalto University and the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service, signed a Memorandum of Understanding...
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A recently published Global Observations of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) sourcebook aims to support the efforts of the United Nations...
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A handbook published by the JRC supports EU Member States and third countries in their decisions to reduce the impacts of major industrial accidents...