Rome/Sabaudia [ENA] Bathing in the Mediterranean Sea brought about the maximum risk of squashing on a weeverfish, from now on, the risks are called pufferfish, porcupinefish, ocean sunfish, and triggerfish or new kinds of jellyfish. Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent neurotoxin. Its name derives from Tetraodontiformes, an order that includes pufferfish, porcupinefish, ocean sunfish, and triggerfish.   [Full story...]

Rome [ENA] The emergence of China from a poor country to a major economic superpower within a time span of about twenty-eight years is one of the greatest success stories to be described. This year marks the 40th anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening (gaige kaifang), initiated by Deng Xiaoping at the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee in 1978: the starting of the shift towards a market economy.   [Full story...]