Ageing researchers from Ulm University and IDIBELL Barcelona have 'rejuvenated' elderly mice. As the mice's 'fountain of youth' served a substance called CASIN, which reduces the age-associated protein Cdc42. After only four days of CASIN therapy, the mice lived about 10 percent longer than their untreated conspecifics. The researchers had literally succeeded in turning back the rodents' epigenetic clocks. 

Student Success Project manager Abigail Elliott invited eight experts to a symposium called Dismantling Hegemonies and Anti-Blackness in Higher Education to share their experiences and knowledge of how the legacies of slavery and racism continue to set Black people at a disadvantage.

CrowdScan, a spin-off from imec and the University of Antwerp, has developed a system that measures the density of a crowd in real-time using a wireless sensor network.

Based on six years of research at the University of Antwerp and imec, CrowdScan has developed a system to measure crowd densities without using camera images, mobile phone data or other privacy-sensitive information. By transmitting low-energetic radio waves (868 MHz), CrowdScan measures the average signal attenuation of a wireless sensor network relative to the empty environment. 

The extent of Arctic sea ice in July is the lowest ever recorded. This was discovered by researchers of the MOSAIC expedition of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). The University of Bremen is also involved in the research project. Embark on the largest polar expedition in history: in September 2019, the German research icebreaker Polarstern has set sail from Tromsø, Norway, to spend a year drifting through the Arctic Ocean - trapped in ice. The goal of the MOSAiC expedition is to take the closest look ever at the Arctic as the epicenter of global warming and to gain fundamental insights that are key to better understand global climate change. Hundreds of researchers from 20 countries are involved in this exceptional endeavour.

On 28 July, the European Commission has launched the IP Manifesto to maximise the accessibility of research results in the fight against COVID-19.

The manifesto provides guiding principles for beneficiaries of EU research grants for coronavirus prevention, testing, treatment and vaccination to ensure that their research results will be accessible for all and guarantee a return on public investment.

YERUN is proud to be among the signatories of this important document, and fully shares the principles of the principles of openness and accessibility of EU-funded research results on which it is based and their importance in the fight against Coronavirus.

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