As it passes its first birthday, a checklist of progress to date in the formation of the Innovation Union, a key element of the Europe 2020 strategy for jobs and growth, was published by the Commission
The US National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the formation of Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI), to support collaboration among researchers and spur scientific discovery
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided that the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shall be divided, with one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.
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