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RSS![JRC's ChemAgora web portal simplifies access to chemical data](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2018-02/computerman_-_chemagora.jpg?itok=XsoafskU)
The JRC's ChemAgora web portal provides search capabilities to retrieve chemical data from a plethora of online resources enabling users to access...
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The JRC contributed to an Italian study in profiling food waste types to better understand what specific measures should be taken for food waste...
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Major and severe accidents have occurred three times in nuclear power plants (NPPs), at Three Mile Island (USA, 1979), Chernobyl (former USSR, 1986)...
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Geospatial data are playing an increasing role to answer major societal questions such as those related to the environment, climate change, crisis...
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The JRC participated in an expert group of regulators, academics and industry to discuss the way forward in nanotoxicology, concluding that there is a...
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Crops that are generally dependent on weather conditions are heavily impacted by climate variability and extremes. One of the problems in forecasting...
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Which are the principles underpinning research and innovation smart specialisationstrategies(RIS3)? What are the core-indicators to monitor the sound...
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The JRC and the Interdepartmental Centre of Robust Statistics for Big Data of the University of Parma are pleased to inform that the new release of...
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According to the January issue of the JRC MARS Crop monitoring Bulletin (Vol. 26 No 1), which was published today, the low-temperature acclimatisation...
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The outcome of a workshop reviewing progress in carcinogenicity assessment of chemicals has been published in the latest issue of Toxicology in Vitro...
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JRC scientists have explored the application of Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) to improve mechanistic understanding of human disease pathophysiology...
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JRC scientists have commemorated their late JRC colleague, Dr Jose-Manuel Zaldívar Comenges, by publishing a series of six papers on the Virtual Cell...
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A detailed inventory - compiled by JRC scientists - of 800 knowledge sources relevant to the Replacement, Reduction and Refinement (Three Rs) of...
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Food of animal origin forms an essential part of our diet. Safe feed is a prerequisite for human and animal health and the productivity of the animal...
Since 2011, we at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) have been developing guidance on Best Environmental Management Practices for a number of priority...
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The JRC organised a dedicated workshop to bridge scientific communities involved in progressing the regulatory science of nanomedicines. There was a...
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From the 27-29 November 2017, the annual meeting of EURL ECVAM's regulatory network (PARERE) and the joint meeting of PARERE and the ECVAM stakeholder...
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The JRC hosted EU Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM) has published its Status Report 2017 presenting an update on...
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The November issue of the JRC MARS Bulletin Crop monitoring in Europe was published today, alongside three of the JRC MARS Bulletin global outlook...
Despite the key role science plays in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, disaster science represents only 0.22%...