Meetings

The EU Horizon 2020 funded project EuropaBON held a workshop that aimed to showcase the application of Essential Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services variables

A citizen science project by the University of Sussex has found that urban growers in Brighton and Hove were able to harvest 1kg of insect-pollinated fruit and vegetables per one metre square, which is within the range of conventional farming.

Young patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) can enjoy long remissions on the drug ibrutinib, but must stay on it indefinitely to keep the cancer in remission. A new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers suggests that a 2.5-year regimen involving ibrutinib and chemoimmunotherapy can provide deep, and lasting remissions of the disease

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred unprecedented progress in the field of digital health. A great example of this is the growth seen in tools such as Catalonia's La Meva Salut, which, in little more than a year, has seen a jump from 600,000 to more than 4,300,000 users. To analyse and debate everything we've learned over the period, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya's eHealth Center organized the first eHealth What If Forum series, which has just drawn to a close.

A study has found that indigenous people in the rainforests of Gabon have knowledge of plant and fruit-eating animal interactions that exceeds that found in academic literature.

New research shows that simple changes to how UK solar parks are managed could boost ground nesting bumble bee populations in the parks and surrounding areas, providing an additional benefit on top of renewable energy.

Scientists at Lund University have discovered for the first time that it is possible to detect insect DNA in the air. Using air from three sites in Sweden, insect DNA from 85 species could be identified. This offers scope for exploring a whole new way to monitor terrestrial biodiversity.