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Malaysia's PM, senior leaders, meet in New York City with leading international experts counselling nation's drive to become a high-income country

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A recent finding highlights that linear genomes are not uniformly repaired. Telomeres, the extremities of linear chromosomes, if damaged cannot be repaired and thus accumulate DNA damage over time independently from their length. This finding sets a new perspective on the process of ageing that could in principle lead to a way to prevent it. However, is ageing a bad thing for us, we really want to get rid of?
Authors: Marzia Fumagalli, Francesca Rossiello, Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna

The objective of the event is to bring all those interested in and actively contributing to the GEOSS from all over Europe to present their work and actively discuss how Europe can contribute to GEO.

Venue: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
(National Research Council of Italy), piazzale Aldo Moro, 7, Rome (Italy)
When: ROME 7 & 8 May 2012

Author: Confindustria.
Companies are called to operate in an increasingly globalised market. As they grow, they are faced with the internationalisation of the economy, which they strongly support.

New Worldwatch Institute report stresses the urgent need for cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions. Washington, D.C. Although global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) declined slightly in 2009, the beginnings of economic recovery led to an unprecedented emissions increase of 5.8 percent in 2010. In 2011, global atmospheric levels of CO₂ reached a high of 391.3 parts per million (ppm), up from 388.6 ppm in 2010 and 280 ppm in pre-industrial times.

Last week more than 300 climate change specialists from 60 countries gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam for the 6th Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change.

Author: Shenggen Fan

The year 2011 highlighted ongoing challenges to global food security, from food price volatility, extreme weather shocks, and famine to unrest and conflicts. On the policy front, major developments at the global and national levels both offered grounds for encouragement and pointed to areas where further action is needed.

Cork, April 24, 2012, Tyndall National Institute, UCC - Professor Jim Greer, Head of Electronics Theory and Graduate Studies at Tyndall and Dr. Paul Hurley, Senior Staff Researcher and Head of High-k Research at Tyndall, have been recognised by Intel with 2012 Intel Outstanding Researcher Awards.

“Basic science and clinical medicine move at different pace because they follow different paths. Both however aim at improving strategies to manage cancer patients. We need to efficiently translate the good things from basic science and efficiently implement them in the clinic.” Sherene Loi and Fabrice André, IMPAKT 2012 Co-Chairs

“Synapse” is derived from the Greek word “synaptein” meaning to fasten together and was first used by Charles Sherrington in 1897. Research over the last decades has provided great insight into the physiological functions of synapses and experience-dependent plasticities. But recently, it has emerged that the disruption of synaptic function and plasticity plays a major role in many neurological diseases.