Everybody and everything is surrounded by microbiomes and understanding what microbiomes do, what they are, and how they interact is a new scientific frontier made now reachable by rapid advances in genomic mapping, robotics, and chemical analysis. What we know and understand so far is that the ...
Transport safety is a major societal challenge for Europe, with still alarmingly high figures for deaths and serious injuries. Since the early 2000, the number of annual fatalities on the European roads was cut by 54 % but statistics for 2015 show stagnation of this downward trend. Consequently,...
Conditions often associated with later life, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, along with diabetes, are debilitating to the sufferer and a challenge to European healthcare systems. So, the potential breakthroughs nanomedicine can offer are being carefully and ...
One of the greatest challenges facing modern medicine is the unrestrained use of antibiotics, leading to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the growth of superbugs like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that have become highly resistant to antibiotics. Official figures show that...
Producing miniature versions of organs in a dish may sound like science-fiction, but thanks to advances in stem cell technology and bioengineering scientists are now able to artificially grow a mass of cells into organoids with similar properties to organs. Organoids represent cells grown in spe...
Neglect, pollution, natural hazards and climate change are all playing their part in the damage to cultural heritage. This non‑renewable resource, in all its diverse physical forms, needs safeguarding for future generations. EU-funded research projects, including those showcased in this new CORD...
Europe’s food production and consumption will play a pivotal role in ensuring food and nutrition security (FNS) in the face of the combined impacts of, climate change, resource scarcity, land degradation, biodiversity decline, under- and over-nutrition, population growth and geopolitical instabi...
The massive increase in aviation traffic over the past 20 years means that safety measures remain of crucial importance. The European Union aims to have the safest region to fly in the world by 2050, reducing the number of accidents in commercial flights to less than one per ten million and redu...
Bioplastics are becoming a crucial component in the drive to create a fully sustainable and circular bio-economy. The EU has been actively supporting the development of these materials through ambitious and collaborative research that aims for a greater uptake that will help transform Europe’s p...
