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Taiwan has almost as many motorcycles as inhabitants and a major challenge: converting them into electric ones

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Taiwan has two records if we talk about mobility. It is the first country in the world in motorcycles per inhabitant. And it is the first country in the world in number of vehicles per inhabitant, as long as we remove from the equation San Marino, Guernsey (autonomous islands off the coast of Normandy that respond to the United Kingdom), the autonomous state of Jersey and Andorra, all of them spaces where, let’s say, they are used as monetary refuges. According to the data As collected by the statistics group within the United Nations, Taiwan has 999 registered vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants. But that data hides another record: almost 600 of those vehicles are motorcycles. This means that Taiwan, with its almost 24 million inhabitants, therefore has another almost 24 million vehicles. And the most recent data says that it also has more than 14 million motorcycles. The data reaches its extreme in Taipei, the capital, where there is a number slightly higher than the national average with 65 motorcycles per 100 inhabitants. Is it a lot? It’s a lot. To give us an idea, in Spain there are around 95 motorcycles (53 of them are mopeds) per 1,000 inhabitants, according to data from the European Union. The country with the most registered motorcycles is Greece, which reaches 251 motorcycles (150 of them are mopeds) per 1,000 inhabitants. A figure that doubles (by far) the Asian country. This congestion of motorcycles represents a problem for the State in environmental matters. And they want to change it by jumping to the electric motorcycle. A most ambitious challenge According to data from the Taiwan Ministry of Transportation and CommunicationsIn 2024, 14.6 million motorcycles will be counted. They are, therefore, a substantial part of the country’s carbon emissions. 55% of those recorded in Taiwan are produced by transportation. With the aim of converting the fully electric vehicle fleet by 2050the country has set various objectives ahead. The most ambitious is to prohibit the sale of non-electric motorcycles from 2040. Previously, the State has launched a campaign for customers to opt for this technology. To do this, they explain in Motorpassionthe State is giving huge sums of money for the purchase of electric vehicles. Any electric vehicle, whether motorcycle, car or truck, is taken into account in its plans to help with the purchase. But it is in the former where the discounts are most juicy because they can reach 3,300 Taiwanese dollars (NT$), about 95 euros in direct exchange, in a country where a motorcycle is around 900 euros. Those looking to change a car do have greater incentives, with discounts of up to NT$16,000 (about 460 euros). Although the state is putting pressure for motorists and drivers to change their vehicles, the results are being somewhat discreet. These subsidies have been active for three years and between 2022 and 2025 they have managed to remove from the market (to reach the maximum aid you have to scrap another combustion vehicle) just over 120,000 vehicles, adding all types of types and sizes. A figure that pales only with motorcycle sales, since each year about 700,000 vehicles of this type are registered on the market. That is, in three years the sum of motorcycles, cars and trucks replaced It barely exceeds total scooter sales by 5% in the same period of time. Getting the motorcycle market to switch to the electric market is key for the country. Not only because still the cheapest way to get aroundalso because it is key when it comes to reduce dependency that the country has from foreign oil. Having mobility that depends largely on renewable energies produced in the country itself is a significant step in its relations with the outside world. Photo | Faye Yu In Xataka | The first commercially ready solid state battery is here. And an electric motorcycle is going to take it

We are one step closer to converting pancreatic islet transplants into a functional therapy against type 1 diabetes

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The incidence of Type 1 diabetes It is less than that of its “sister”, but the World Health Organization esteem that more than 64 million people suffer only in Europe. In Spain, the number of cases exceeds 166,000 according to estimates of the National Health System. A new path. A study led by researchers from the University of Leiden has presented a new production method of endocrine cell groupings for transplantation. This tool could help us advance in this type of treatments against type 1 diabetes. Pancreatic islets. The work focuses on the pancreatic islet transplant. These islets are “groupings” of endocrine cells, hormone producing cells. Type 1 diabetes is triggered when our own immune system attacks pancreatic beta cells, insulin producing cells. The problem of transplanting these islets is to obtain them. An option is to obtain them from deceased donors, but this limits their availability. Another option is to “cultivate them” in laboratory from induced pluripotent stem cells. Easier to say than to do. However, there is a problem to solve, and these stem cells can differentiate themselves in the endocrine cells we are looking for, but they can also differentiate in other cells. “This is a problem because if you want to generate a reliable and safe product we need to be very pure, and that it does not vary in composition or purity from one lot to another,” explained to Sinc Adrián Villalba, an immunologist who works precisely in the development of this type of islets. A new method. In the new work, the team raises a new mechanism that facilitates the process of purifying unwanted cells without harming the integrity of the islets to be transplanted. The mechanism is based on density gradient centrifugation, used to enrich endocrine cell clusters and reduce the number of unwanted cells. The team tested their method successfully in mice. They observed that the transplanted islets remained viable for a period of six months. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Translational Medicine Science. A future still distant. Animals in animals are a key step, but it remains to be determined to what extent we can replicate the success of these first experiments in human cells. The success achieved so much in alive as In vitrothey point to optimism for now, but there is still time until we can see this progress turned into therapy. The team stands out in your work that this is a “fast” and “scalable method to large volumes of cells.” A method that can also be applied to cellular “manufacturing.” They also indicate the possibility of applying this method to contribute to the creation of new and improved cells based on cells in regenerative medicine, “beyond the field of islets (stem cells).” In Xataka | The 42,000 punctures of Elizabeth Hughes and the miraculous discovery of insulin Image | ISENS USA / Jakob Suckale

Radja Nainggolan, said drugs, came from converting an Olympic goal into his return to football

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Belgian footballer Radja Nainggolan was allegedly indicated Monday as a member of an organization dedicated to drug trafficking so was put in preventive arrest. However, the unusual is that The arrest occurred just a couple of days after returning to professional football after six months of absence. Nainggolan, former member of the Belgium National Team and club player such as Inter Milan or Rome, had returned to the practice of professional football in the second division of his country with the humble Lakeren-Temse team just last weekend and His presence did not go unnoticed by scoring an impressive Olympic goal. The goal happened at minute 70 ′ while his team was down on the scoreboard. After charging a corner from the left, the ball closed with effect and culminated surprising the rival goal. Although the archer’s reflection was to take out the ball, it was already inside the arch and for its part Nainggolan was celebrating with the rest of his teammates. It is not clear if the club will terminate the Nainggolan contract before the signs of supposedly appearing in cocaine traffic that would have taken place in the time in which the player was away from the playing land. This is not the first time that Nainggolan is interfering with a controversy inside or outside football. In the past he faced facts related to alcohol, tobacco and drug use during his stage as a player, as well as a strong character for which he was expelled from both the courts and some clubs where he militated. Look at Nainggolan’s goal here: Continue reading: (tagstotranslate) f \ u00fatbol

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