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New Research Into The Deep Ocean Floor Yields Promising Results For Microbiologists
Knoxville TN (SPX) Jun 17, 2010
Research by a small group of microbiologists is revealing how marine microbes live in a mysterious area of the Earth: the realm just beneath the deep ocean floor. The ocean crust may be the largest biological reservoir on our planet.
Beth Orcutt, a post-doctoral fellow at Aarhus University in Denmark and the University of Southern California, presented her new findings about this little re ... more
HIV: Nurse-monitored treatment gets OK in S.African trial
Paris (AFP) June 16, 2010
HIV drugs can be administered as effectively by nurses as by doctors, a finding that could yield major benefits in the fight against AIDS in Africa, researchers said on Wednesday.
In a trial carried out at two South African front-line clinics, 408 patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were assigned to antiretroviral (ART) drugs monitored by doctors, and 404 others to drugs mon ... more
US donates tuberculosis facility to Nigeria
Zaria, Nigeria (AFP) June 14, 2010
The United States on Monday donated a multi-million dollar facility for the detection and treatment of tuberculosis to Nigeria, where around 400,000 people suffer from the disease.
Located on the outskirts of the northern city of Zaria, the facility includes a state-of-the-art bio-safety laboratory and a medical staff training centre as well as clinics for people living with HIV and AIDS. ... more
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