Welcome to Spring 2013
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Event: 10/04/2013in Schweden: Roundtable meeting on anti-Gypsyism in Europe
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Theme: New DNA Test For Food Inspection. Almost all foodstufs contain the genetic material of those animal and plant species that were used in their preparation. Scientists at University Mainz have developed a novel screening procedure that provides for highly sensitives, quantifiable analysis of animal, plant, and microbial substances present in foodstuffs. For this, the researchers have adapted latest techniques of DNA sequencing, which otherwise currently employed in human genetics to unravel the genetic information of thousands of patients. In pilot studies the researchers were able to use the new DNA method to detect the presence of a 1 percent content of horse meat in products and to determine the actual amount with a high level of precision. Because of its potential, the method - dubbed "All-Food-Seq" by its developers - has already attracted the attention of food inspection experts. More: New DNA test identifies ingredients in foods
Quote: "No water, no life. No blue, no green"
Sylvia Earle
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+++ News +++ . A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff +++ . Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that coding errors, selective exclusion of available data and unconventional weighting of summary statistics lead to serious erros that inaccurately represent the relationship between public debt and GDP growth rate among 20 advanced economies in the post-war period, more: Does High Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? and PDF - Working Paper by Herndon, Ash and Pollin +++ Global Arms Trade Treaty +++. On Tuesday the U.N. General Assembly approved the first treaty on the global arms, that failed to achieve support last week but garnered the support of a majority of Member States when put to a vote on 2nd April 2013. More: Overwhelming Majority Of States In General Assembly Say 'Yes' To Arms Trade Treaty. April +++ Child development: First steps no indicator of intelligence +++. The first steps, children taking on their own (on average at the age of 12 month) are of no consequences. Children who start walking early turn out later to be neither more intelligent nor more well-coordinated. More swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF): Timing of first steps no indicator of intelligence +++ Could cows be a reseroir for new strains of MRSA? +++. Cambrigde scientists have linked two human cases of infection with the antibiotic-resistant superbug MRSA to farms in Denmark. Their study suggests the methicillion-resistent Stphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria was transmitted form the livestock to the farmers. Read on, University of Cambridge: New research suggests animal-to-human transmission of MRSA and March of the superbugs. +++
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