Scientific Reviews
Agricultural Production, Food Loss and Waste. Can global waste of 1.3 billion tonnes of edible food production be reduced substantially?
Abstract Food production addresses one of the most important and basic human needs and has developed in parallel with the evolution of humanity to ensure steady provision, safety and variety of food as well as improved nutritional erosion, climate change) in modern...
Air Pollution as a Major Risk Factor of Global Burden of Disease Study. Global estimates for indoor-outdoor particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide
Abstract The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) was institutionalized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1998 to estimate the causes of death and disability worldwide for hundred of diseases. The WHO collected and analysed large numbers of data from...
Wildlife Ecotoxicological Studies. Ecotoxicology of chemical pollutants with ecological risk assessment principles in sensitive ecosystems
Abstract. Ecotoxicology is a multidisciplinary research area investigating toxic effects of environmental pollutants and contaminants on biological populations, communities, and ecosystems. Wildlife toxicology studies can be traced to the original research efforts of...
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference, Glascow, November 2021. Global challengers for the agreed implementation of reductions of greenhouse gases
Abstract The United Nations in 1995 initiated annual international conferences of all countries to focus on the threats of climate change, rising temperatures and future reductions on greenhouse gases (GHG). In these global conferences government representatives and...
Forest Wildfires and Biomass Burning as Contributors to Global Air Pollution. Influence of atmospheric air chemistry, hazardous levels of pollutants and infectious agents
Abstract: In ther last decade, there is a dramatic increase in forest wildfires and biomass burning on a global scale consuming millions of square kilometers of forest and cultivated land. Scientists suggest that detailed investigational studies are needed to...
Challenges for Delivering Succesful Vaccines. Clinical safety, quality and effectiveness before a COVID-19 vaccine is granted regulatory approval
Abstract. On 31/12/2019, World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan City, China, that was placed under lockdown on the 23 January 2020. But almost half of the population of the city (total 11 million) was already on...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020. Discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 Genetic Scissors. A revolutionary genome editing technology that can cut any DNA molecule at a predetermined site
Abstract. In October 2020, Prof. Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Plank, Berlin) and Prof. Jenniffer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing”. For many years genome editing...
Obesity, Smoking and Pandemic of COVID-19. Patients with obesity and smokers are linked with significant increases in morbidity and mortality from COVID-19
Abstract. Since the pandemic COVID-19 began in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan in China, scientists were wondering why the infectious disease is more deadly in people with obesity, even if they are young. A number of clinical studies have reported that many of the...
Oxygen Sensing and Metabolism for Aerobic Multicellular Life. Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF) as master regulators of Oxygen homeostasis
Abstract . Scientists date the “Big Bang” to about 13.8 billion years ago.The solar system was dated at about 4.5-4.6 billion years ago forming the central star, the Sun, and orbiting planets. Planet Earth is unique because it has about 70% of its surface covered with...
Tap Drinking Water versus Bottled Water. Risk perceptions on safety and taste increased use of bottled drinking water that fit with the modern way of life
Abstract. Water is essential to human life and health. Safe drinking water from contamination and readily available in houses and working places is a fundamental health factor to humans, but also connected with longevity, economic growth and reduction of poverty....
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