41.   French scientist Jean Riess has developed a temporary blood substitute called Oxygent which is undergoing final clinical trials in the United States before being put on the market.

42.   French scientists have insisted that the material has been trapped due to the sealing of the surrounding rocks by the extremely high temperatures generated by the blasts.

43.   French scientists will be given access to portions of several new high-tech Energy Department laboratories that will conduct nuclear weapons research after the ban goes into effect.

44.   French scientist Herve Bocherens said experts had been led to that conclusion by studies of mummified mammoth remains found in a glacier in Yakoutie, northeastern Siberia.

45.   French scientists have succeeded in making haemoglobin from genetically-engineered tobacco plants, the British review Nature reported in its latest issue.

46.   French scientists said Monday they had found the first biological evidence to back claims that smoking destroys brain cells and impedes production of new ones.

47.   French scientists too joined in condemning the decision to resume testing.

48.   In Brussels, meanwhile, a French scientist told Euro deputies that the continued testing could destablise the Mururoa atoll, causing radioactivity to seep into the surrounding ocean.

49.   A fossilized giant turtle found in the Amazon last week is more than five million years old, a French scientist said Wednesday.

50.   After her death, French scientists made a cast of her body and preserved her skeleton, genitalia and brain, putting them on display.