The Danube

Constructing ribosomes along the Danube.

The EMBO Conference on Ribosome Synthesis held last summer explored the latest breakthroughs in ribosome assembly and how it affects disease. Both of these topics have recently seen important advances that enlighten how almost 200 proteins cooperate to produce a ribosome and how the cell responds to a malfunction in this process.

49th International Danube Neurology Symposium

Insights into the Vitis complex in the Danube floodplain (Austria)

European grapevine populations quickly disappeared from most of their range, massively killed by the spread of North American grapevine pests and diseases. Nowadays taxonomic pollution represents a new threat. A large Vitis complex involves escaped cultivars, rootstocks, and wild grapevines. The study aimed to provide insight into the Vitis complex in the Danube region through field and genetic...

On the Radio-ecology of the Danube River

The projected growth of nuclear power in the Member States of the IAEA along the Danube River presents several radiological protection questions which can be best resolved through international co-operation. Realizing this, the riparian countries expressed willingness to participate in a joint investigation when the IAEA suggested that such a programme be initiated. The work itself had already ...

Early Anthropogenic Transformation of the Danube-Black Sea System

Over the last century humans have altered the export of fluvial materials leading to significant changes in morphology, chemistry, and biology of the coastal ocean. Here we present sedimentary, paleoenvironmental and paleogenetic evidence to show that the Black Sea, a nearly enclosed marine basin, was affected by land use long before the changes of the Industrial Era. Although watershed hydrocl...