Early voters have started to convene and to exercise their right to vote at the Naxxar voting station.
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People who will not be able to vote next week due to being abroad or any other reason have been given the chance to input their vote this weekend.
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Taking to social media, independent European Parliament candidate Arnold Cassola shared a Corradino Detention Centre mugshot of himself.
Cassola explained that he was arrested after protesting land development and environmental destruction in Gozo.
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‘Back then I did not understand how the state could support the such destruction. Today, I understand how money works in politics, and I am less perplexed.’
‘That is why I remained independent and free’, he wrote. ‘So that which is white, I call white and that which is black, I do not call grey.’
Now 70 years old, he says that all that has changed are his hair colour and the face wrinkles.
‘The wish to protect my country is still as strong as if this photo was taken this morning’, he concluded.
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As the European Parliament elections draw ever closer, META have been releasing notifications providing ‘election info’ for its users on, at the very least, Instagram.
It seems as though, however, some of the EU election features did not sit well with some governments in other European countries.
Spain was one of these cases as the country’s data protection watchdog AEPD barred Meta from launching two features on both Facebook and Instagram. Whether or not these are the same features/notifications is unclear.
The watchdog argued that they would violate Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation.
Italy too did not allow such notifications to be shared, having been in an ongoing dispute over the matter with Meta.
“Our election tools have been expressly designed to respect users’ privacy and comply with the GDPR. While we disagree with the AEPD’s assessment in this case, we have cooperated with their request,” a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.
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A new drug that regrows teeth, developed by Japanese researchers led by Katsu Takahashi from Kitano Hospital, is about to enter human trials. This intravenous drug blocks the USAG-1 protein, which suppresses tooth growth, triggering new tooth development.
Human trials start in September, following successful tests on ferrets and mice with no serious side effects.
Due to the 97 percent similarity in the USAG-1 protein function between humans and other species, researchers are optimistic about its effectiveness in humans.
The initial trial will involve adults missing at least one molar, while subsequent trials will target children aged two to seven with congenital tooth deficiencies and older adults missing one to five teeth due to environmental factors.
Takahashi and his team predict the drug could be available to consumers by 2030. This development builds on years of research, including regenerative tooth fillings and stem cell technology to repair dental tissue.
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