Mars research boost

EU research budget boost

flee abroad, while none from outside Italy can penetrate the system. After various reforms and several rounds of decentralisation followed by recentralisation, the whole process may have to be reconstructed from scratch. " A recent bill passed last year intends to [...] promote meritocracy, " Calef adds, " but it is not very clear whether it can succeed. " This is a particularly sensitive area,...

Steroid boost for sirtuin research

amino-group of lysines is an important switch in gene regulation and protein activity and has gained increasing interest in molecular biology and drug discovery in the last decade. One of the enzyme families that catalyze the cleavage of an acetyl group are the NAD+-dependent protein deacetylases, the sirtuins. The human sirtuins have seven members, Sirt1-7. Even though the biology of the sirtu...

Boost for Europe's research plans

After years of deliberation, the European Union introduced its new instrument of science funding, the European Research Council, through a back door, by including it in the latest edition of its Framework Program, FP7 (see Curr. Biol. (2005) 15, R359). Since then, a Scientific Council has been busy laying the foundations of what is designed to become a European pendant to the US National Scienc...

Human–animal embryos to boost UK research

Plans last year by the UK government to block the proposals by researchers to create human–animal hybrid embryos for stem-cell research were withdrawn this spring as the government proposed new mechanisms to consider the issue. Researchers want to create such hybrids because they can provide valuable stem cells to allow researchers to study the development of many incurable diseases, which the ...

Future Pet Nutrition: Research Protein Boost