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A Spanish infrastructure company on EU project DIGITALIA 2 has developed a component for railway lines that cuts construction and maintenance costs.

An infrastructure company based on the eastern coast of Spain has developed a component for railway lines that considerably cuts installation and maintenance costs and makes for smoother journeys for passengers. Thanks to the DIGITALIA 2 project, TORRESCAMARA is now offering its concrete transition wedges in tenders to build and maintain high-speed and conventional rail tracks in its home country and abroad.

Plant diseases caused by pests and invasive and alien pathogens are increasing with climate change and international trade. Now EU-funded scientists are looking for innovative ways to protect crops and forests.

Alien pathogens and pests cause havoc with crops and forests, affecting food security and livelihoods as well as biodiversity and ecosystem services. The EU-funded EMPHASIS project was set up as a broad-based approach for detecting and preventing the threat of invasive alien pests and local pathogens.

It has been estimated that valvular heart disease (VHD) currently affects 2.5 % of the population, presenting significant health risks, sometimes fatal. To improve treatment, EurValve developed a decision support system (DSS) that gives clinicians access to a range of vital patient information.

Immunotherapy is rapidly becoming the fourth pillar in combating cancer, next to surgery, chemo- and radio-therapy. With cytokines failing to show clinical efficacy, European researchers are turning to an innovative approach for addressing cytokine toxicity.

An EU-funded project brings together researchers from academy and industry to design composite materials for resource-efficient applications and environmentally friendly technologies.

As the appetite grows for devices based on transparent conductive film, cheaper and more flexible formulations have to be found. CLEARSILVER pioneered a nanosilver and nano zinc-oxide printing process suited to organic photovoltaic and organic light-emitting diode applications.

Transparent conductive films (TCF) are thin materials used in a range of electronic devices including liquid-crystal and organic light-emitting displays and touchscreens. They are typically made of indium tin oxide (ITO), which, while offering a good transparent conductor, is also fragile and costly.

EU funding helped a Slovenian start-up develop more comfortable aircraft seats, beds and pillows. The innovation can also cut CO2 emissions.

For decades, Lead Acid Batteries have been indispensable for industrial progress, but at a cost. As current recycling methods are polluting, inefficient and costly, there have been calls to ban them. But where would all that surplus lead go? What if there was a better solution?

Lead Acid Batteries (LABs) are vital for reliably powering many devices. Globally, the LAB market is anticipated to reach USD 95.32 billion by 2026, with Europe having the second biggest market share.

The European manufacturing industry must become more agile to compete globally, but while automated systems can achieve high productivity and quality, their sensitivity to change is becoming a major roadblock. An EU initiative has introduced a platform to ease the transformation to demanding agile solutions.

An EU-funded researcher worked with experts in the Basque Region and California to develop a new method of simulating charge-transfer states, which lie at the heart of creating solar cells for renewable energy.

An EU-funded researcher has developed a model for better simulations of charge transfer (CT) processes, which play a key role in photosensitisers and photocatalytic reactions, exploited to produce solar energy.

Content-based retrieval has long been applied to audio and still images, and just recently to moving images. A Marie Curie-supported project is taking steps to bring interactive art into the fold.

Does repetitive practice make perfect? The MIM project analysed body movements using a new type of digital instrument to find out.

Digital technologies are entering almost every aspect of our lives, becoming ever more intertwined with society. With this movement comes a desire to create more natural ways for humans to interact with computers.

Researchers are hoping to incorporate human-computer interaction (HCI) into new elements of life, including culture, emotion and experience. Body movement is one way to do this.

The MitCare project has been exploring new approaches to deal with mitochondrial disease. Its experimental therapies show much promise for patients living with this incurable condition.

Mitochondrial disease has been a biological conundrum for decades. Ever since 1962, when it was first diagnosed, the condition has remained incurable. Treatments developed so far have only been able to alleviate symptoms, and research is currently hindered by the complexity of the mechanisms controlling mitochondrial genetics and biology.

The lack of reliable in vivo models prohibits the accurate prediction of drug efficacy and toxicity during drug discovery and development. Through a proprietary multi-organ-on-device (MOOD) bioreactor, a battery of pre-clinical assays can be tested during drug development.

Our knowledge of sandy and rocky coastal system evolution is poorly represented in current models. NEARCONTROL sought to fill in this knowledge gap.

A Horizon 2020-funded project sought to fill in our knowledge gaps in modelling coastal evolution. In finding out more accurately how the coast evolves in the face of extreme storm events, our predictions in the face of climate change can be improved.

Researchers on EU project NeTNPPAO are fine-tuning the variables in models forecasting one of the main sources of food for marine life.

Phytoplankton, self-feeding organisms floating in the ocean, are the primary source of food for marine animal life and need chemicals present in the ocean as nutrients to thrive.

EU-funded scientists have found genetic and personality traits underlying difficult-to-treat neuropathic pain and conducted groundbreaking fundamental research that can lead to new drugs for this distressing condition.

Neuropathic pain results from an alteration of the nervous system, unrelated to physical injury.

PRISAR has developed a hybrid probe and detection system for targeted image-guided surgery and post-operative molecular radiotherapy. The system offers a revolutionary tool for early diagnosis and improved patient survival, leading to better quality of life.

The world’s population is booming and food security is one of the key issues facing us, as land suitable for agriculture is impacted by climate change and soil degradation. Genetic modification of crops can help, but the risk of cross-contamination is holding back uptake.

The race is on to name millions of unidentified insects at risk of disappearing from the planet. A Peruvian researcher used DNA analysis on project MARIPOSAS to classify butterflies in the American tropics and learn how they evolved over millions of years.

Many of the world’s butterflies are not properly named or classified, despite the pain-staking work of generations of collectors and scientists. A multidisciplinary team at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg has used cutting-edge DNA analysis to classify species within two butterfly families in record time.