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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.

Hinxton, 22 April 2012 – Just as banks store away only the most valuable possessions in the most secure safes, cells prioritise which genes they guard most closely, researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have found. The study, published online today in Nature, shows that bacteria have evolved a mechanism that protects important genes from random mutation, effectively reducing the risk of self-destruction. The findings answer a question that has been under debate for half a century and provide insights into how disease-causing mutations arise and pathogens evolve.

Organised by the University of Siena, IT, the fourth edition of the European Workshop in Drug Synthesis with the focus on new Sustainable Process for Medicinal Chemistry, will be taking place from the 27th of May to the 31st of May 2012 in Certosa di Pontignano, just outside the city of Siena (Tuscany).