Ιούλιος 2013

EU-funded scientists are quickly discovering and moving candidates for targeted cancer therapy into the clinical pipeline.

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Living longer, and being healthy, only depends on a few genes in some species. This was discovered, working on worms, three decades ago, and that was the beginning of the golden age of research on aging, which has provided lots of interesting results, but has also created some confusion. The prestigious journal Cell will publish next Thursday a thorough review in this regard, in order to "create a useful framework for future works". For the first time, all the molecular indicators of aging in mammals are defined, the nine matters that set the advance of the process.

The European aviation industry has set ambitious environmental protection goals for itself: by the year 2020, it not only wants to reduce emissions of gases harmful to the climate – carbon dioxide by 50 percent and nitrogen oxide by 80 percent – but it also wants to improve the life cycles of the aircrafts themselves. “Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)” is the term experts use to describe the systematic assessment of the adverse environmental impact of aircraft components in use.