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MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish drug company Zeltia said it had set up a new biotechnology arm to investigate gene silencing, an area of medicine from research that won this week's Nobel Prize.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for discovering how to control the flow of genetic information in a cell.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Japan have identified a molecule responsible for making mammals feel full, a discovery that could lead to new ways to treat obesity in humans.

PARIS (Reuters) - Imagine your car warning you of an icy road ahead, reading aloud the text messages arriving on your phone and sending you an e-mail that your fuel pump needs replacing soon.

The European Union is teaming up with car manufacturers to promote automotive accident-avoidance technologies.

TORONTO (Reuters) - When someone is "easy on the eye," it could also be because they are easy on the brain, according to a new international study.

LONDON (Reuters) - The 1918 Spanish Flu that killed up to 50 million people worldwide caused a severe immune response which may help to explain why it was so deadly, American scientists said on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The length of a girl's ring finger could be an indicator of her future sporting potential, researchers at King's College London said on Thursday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - It's one thing to light up the catwalk with innovative design, but what about producing designs that actually light up the catwalk?

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Researchers in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Germany are pursuing a project to transform female freshwater fish into males, a sex change they hope will put bigger fish on the dinner table.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Commercial fishing methods threaten to devastate Europe's oceans, WWF International said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Taller women are more likely to have twins, according to a U.S. study.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Earth may be close to the warmest it has been in the last million years, especially in the part of the Pacific Ocean where potentially violent El Nino weather patterns are born, climate scientists reported on Monday.