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Actualités & Evénements
Actualités
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07-déc.-2010
A special edition of Health at a Glance: Europe is released on 7 December 2010. It focuses on health issues across the 27 European Union member states, three European Free Trade Association countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) and Turkey. It gives readers a better understanding of the factors that affect the health of populations and the performance of health systems in these countries. Its 42 indicators present comparable data covering a wide range of topics, including health status, risk factors, health workforce and health expenditure.
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06-déc.-2010
What are the potential economic impacts of nanotechnology, how are companies using nanotechnology for innovation, and what are the key challenges in its commercialisation? These are some of the questions that this book addresses, based on company case studies in several countries.
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10-nov.-2010
The delivery of sustainable economic growth across multiple disciplines is a high priority on the policy agendas of the OECD member and non-member countries. Reviewing the industrial biotechnology innovation systems of these countries provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the contribution to sustainable growth of this highly innovative and complex industrial sector. While the bio-based economy-related issues of OECD countries have been largely studied; those of the BRICS countries have not been duly addressed.
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10-nov.-2010
The Workshop brought together policy makers, regulators, academic experts, private and public sector researcher and other interested parties, to discuss the latest biomedical developments such as stem cells and personalized medicine, and consider how to foster more effective health innovation. Participants concluded that there is a need to find new ways to pro-actively respond to biomedicine and health innovation.
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02-nov.-2010
(Quantitative) Structure-Activity Relationships or (Q)SARs are methods for estimating properties of a chemical from its molecular structure. The QSAR Toolbox is a software intended to be used by governments, the chemical industry and other stakeholders to apply (Q)SARs to fill data gaps needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. The new version contains many improved tools and databases, especially for the prediction of hazards to human health, and has a more user-friendly interface. The release is part of a collaboration between OECD and the European Chemicals Agency.
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05-oct.-2010
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in partnership with the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Genomics Network (EGN) hosted a major Forum on 6-7 December 2010 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. This Forum reviewed how knowledge in the life sciences is governed, shared, regulated and managed, and explored new linkages between the life sciences and information and communication technologies.
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11-août-2010
The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Aggregated Computational Toxicology Resource (ACToR) has been added as a participant in eChemPortal. ACTor makes links available to more than 400 sources of publicly available data on environmental chemicals. Data includes chemical structure, physico-chemical values, in vitro assay data and in vivo toxicology data. The database contains both tabular, quantitative data as well as links to text reports at other sites.
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