Micro and Nanotechnologies promise to be key applications in medicine and the environment in the future, but their development is still only at the beginning. Treatingdiseases at molecular level is still some way down the road, but researchers in Europe are developing the tools to make it possible one day, while also assessing the possiblerisks of these promising new technologies.
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Guillermo Villanueva,IMB-CSIC Bellaterra, SpainJoan Bausells, IMB-CSIC Bellaterra, Spain Robert Lemor, IBMT St. Ingbert Thomas Velten, IMBT St. Ingbert
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Eighty kilometres from Stockolm, near the town of Uppsala, lies Anders Kjellerby's farm. As well as cattle, there's a heard of 180 pigs and every year the farm produces4.200 piglets. There are very tough restrictions including a maximum weaning age of 4 weeks and a complete ban on the use of antibiotics as growth promoters.As Anders explains, Sweden was in fact the first European country to adopt such a ban, back in 1986.
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Interviews: Alexandra Boudrot, Oenologist at the Cave de Beblenheim, FranceOlivier Lemaire, Virologist at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in Colmar, FranceSerge Scharwatt, Director of Cave de Beblenheim, FranceRoberto Viola, Head of Genetic Research at Istituto Agrario San Michele dell'Adige, in San Michele all'Adige, ItalyGiovanni Gius , Director of Genetic Research at Istituto Agrario San Michele dell'Adige, in San Michele all'Adige, Italy Visit the site: www.mostra.com Download subtitles:

If we want a competitive Europe that creates jobs, then people and goods have to be able to move around easily and quickly, and without harming the environment.That is the aim of the trans-European transport network, a huge continental-scale programme that will interconnect the national transport infrastructures to create a genuine trans-European network.
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Frankfurt, Germany, 10 am. While some people take a coffee break, others prepare more explosive cocktails. We are heading for the airport. This man's goal is to enter the security area with a bomb. He passes himself off as airline employee. Interviews:Jacques BarrotVice-President of the European Commission responsible for TransportFrank Durinckx, Director of Belgian's Aviation InspectorateClaude Moniquet, European Strategic Intelligence and Security CenterPeter Mollema, Port of Rotterdam, Director Strategy Visit the site: www.mostra.com

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Swedish marine biologist Toomas Lundalv and Lisbeth Jonsson arrive early at their research boat. Thery are taking advantage of the longer, warmer Scandinavian summer-days to sail off the Tisler Reefm, an area just one hour from the coast, near the maritime border between Sweden and Norway. They are looking for Europe's secret underwater gardens: deep-water coral reefs. They use this Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) to take pictures of the reef. And this is what they find: the largest onshore deep-water coral reefs discovered in Europe to date. The reefs is around 1200 ... continua

Arnold Hertlog and his wife Huguette have always loved tending their garden in the small Flemish town of Saint Armands, far from Brussels. But the garden hasn't looked like this.In 1998 the couple were told that their home - along with more than hundred neighbouring houses - was sitting on an environmental time bomb. It was discovered that the earth was contaminated with poisonous compounds including arsenic and mercury.
Interviews:Huguette Hertog, Saint Amands resident Arnold Hertlog, Saint Amands resident Victor Dries, OVAM-Flemish Public Waste AgencyStavros Dimas, ... continua

Now in "Futuris": astrophysics, robotics and nanotechnlogy - women in groundbreaking European projects tell their story. Interviews:Anja Andresen, Astrophysicist at DARK Cosmology Centre at the Copenhagen University Alessandra Pavesio, Head of Research at Fidia Pharma in Abano Terme (PD) ItalyAurélie Clodic, Resercher at the LAAS Institute of CNRS in Toulouse, FranceGaelle Covo, Project Manager at the Institute of CNRS in Toulouse, France Visit the site: www.mostra.com Download subtitles:

A ten-minute survey of the Padua "ghetto" in October 2006.Padua houses one of the main drug peddling centres in north-east Italy. The city's authorities are walling in the buildings in the ghetto, one after the other, in order to retrieve the area from the criminal element. Families are being relocated in apartments or provisional accommodation selected by the city council and often only available for a maximum period of three months. The Islamic community is at the same time building a new mosque in record time and celebrating the end of Ramadan. Journalists from ... continua