Rosa Garcia-Verdugo
Rosa García-Verdugo studied biochemistry and, after several years at the bench, completed a PhD in Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute. She is the author of Genética eres tú (Paidós/Grupo Planeta), a popular science book on genetics, and the founder of starvingneuron.com. She contributes to science outreach networks in Spanish and English, and works as a freelance science communicator and medical writer serving biotech companies and European research institutions.-
Producing milk with CO2 and electricity
Milk without cows: the European Hydrocow project, funded by the European Innovation Council, aims to produce milk with carbon dioxide (CO2) and electricity, removing the cow from the process. They are working on engineering a microbe that converts CO2 and hydrogen, produced from water using electricity,... -
Tackling rare diseases together: Prof. Kjeld Schmiegelow proposes more collaboration and EU expert hubs
"Multinational rare disease expert hubs would speed up research, innovation and development", says Kjeld Schmiegelow, Professor of paediatrics and paediatric oncology at the Copenhagen University Hospital (Denmark). Together with his colleagues, he proposes an EU level framework for data sharing and...