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  Abidjan (AFP) Dec 7, 2017 Thirty-five years after the start of the AIDS epidemic, one person in two in sub-Saharan Africa "does not know their HIV status," according to a French expert. "Testing remains insufficient in west Africa and central Africa," public health demographer Joseph Larmarange told AFP in an interview at an AIDS prevention conference in Abidjan. - Why are screenings a challenge? - "Testing is the cornerstone of our response to AIDS, because once people get tested and are found to be positive, we ... read more |
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Lobachevsky University scientists create a neurochip for replacing damaged areas of the brainNizhny Novgorod, Russia (SPX) Dec 07, 2017 Lobachevsky University researchers are working to create a neurochip capable of transmitting a signal to healthy brain cells. The neurochip can be used in devices intended to replace damaged parts o ... more 
Army-developed Zika vaccine induces strong immune response in three phase 1 studiesSilver Spring MD (SPX) Dec 07, 2017 Three Phase 1 human clinical trials evaluating an Army-developed Zika purified inactivated virus (ZPIV) vaccine have shown it was safe and well-tolerated in healthy adults and induced a robust immun ... more 
Campaigners incensed at failings in Africa AIDS warAbidjan (AFP) Dec 6, 2017 Angry AIDS activists are urging western and central Africa to step up the fight against HIV, saying millions of people, especially children, are at risk from complacency and underfunding. ... more 
World AIDS chief warns of risk for Africa's child bridesAbidjan (AFP) Dec 4, 2017 The head of the UN's AIDS agency on Monday urged African countries to protect young women and children who are bearing the brunt of the continent's AIDS epidemic. ... more |
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World's smallest tape recorder is built from microbesNew York NY (SPX) Dec 06, 2017 Through a few clever molecular hacks, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have converted a natural bacterial immune system into a microscopic data recorder, laying the groundwork for a ... more 
UN warns of drug-resistant germ risk brewing in natureNairobi (AFP) Dec 5, 2017 The UN warned Tuesday of a ticking time bomb of drug-resistant germs brewing in the natural environment, aided by humans dumping antibiotics and chemicals into the water and soil. ... more
Men at higher risk of dying of AIDS than women: UNAIDSOttawa (AFP) Dec 1, 2017 Men are less likely to test for HIV or access antiretroviral therapy and, therefore, are more likely to die of AIDS-related illnesses than women, UNAIDS said on Friday. ... more 
Mosquitoes transmit dengue virus more frequently when temperatures riseWashington (UPI) Dec 1, 2017 Mosquitoes are more likely to transmit dengue virus on warmer days, according to new research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. ... more 
PrEP: A shield against AIDSParis (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 "It's magic," said Francois, smiling. "Every time I take a pill I think about the people who aren't so lucky as to have this option." ... more
Nigeria's flourishing 'miracle cure' business for HIV/AIDSLagos (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 Blessing wanted to believe the advert on Facebook that promised "a cure for AIDS". ... more |
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 HIV denial movement fuels Russian epidemic 
NASA is sending E. coli to space for astronaut healthMoffett Field Ca (SPX) Nov 27, 2017 Ever wonder what would happen if you got sick in space? NASA has sent bacteria samples into low-Earth orbit to help find out. One of the agency's latest small satellite experiments is the E. c ... more 
Plague first came to Europe during the Stone AgeWashington (UPI) Nov 22, 2017 The earliest evidence of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis suggests the disease first arrived in Europe during the Stone Age, several millennia before the first documented epidemics. ... more
Heavy rainfall precedes outbreaks of mosquito-borne virusesWashington (UPI) Nov 22, 2017 New research suggests outbreaks of mosquito-borne viruses Zika and Chikungunya tend to begin three weeks after heavy rainfall. ... more 
Kill switches for engineered microbes gone rogueBoston MA (SPX) Nov 20, 2017 Synthetic biologists are fitting the genomes of microorganisms with synthetic gene circuits to break down polluting plastics, non-invasively diagnose and treat infections in the human gut, and gener ... more |
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  Cabaret, Haiti (AFP) Dec 7, 2017 
In the hills of Cabaret, western Haiti, locals and young volunteers from the capital Port-au-Prince prepare cement, stationed between the wooden wall of Pierre Salnave Saint-Felix's new home, and the crumbling mud wall of the shelter he has survived in since 2010.
Unable to afford surgery for glaucoma, Saint-Felix is blind and prevented from breeding livestock. The earthquake in 2010 turned ... more Ponce, Puerto Rico (AFP) Dec 5, 2017Pole to pole, linemen hard at work restoring power in Puerto Rico  Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2017US House approves easing of interstate rules on concealed guns  Beijing (AFP) Dec 6, 2017China says UN resolutions 'cannot solve' Rohingya crisis |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 05, 2017 
ESA Director General Jan Worner signed a Memorandum of Intent with Rolls-Royce today, as the two entities agree to investigate how space technology can be used to develop autonomous and remote-controlled ships.
The partners will pool their expertise to analyse and implement space-enabled services for autonomous and remote-controlled shipping, which reduces the opportunity for human error a ... more Denver CO (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Lockheed Martin assembles third US Air Force GPS 3 satellite  Washington (UPI) Dec 5, 2017Air Force tests Raytheon's GPS receiver aboard B-2 bomber  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 29, 2017DARPA digging for ideas to revolutionize subterranean mapping |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Dec 07, 2017 
Researchers from the University of Birmingham, University of Tubingen and University of St. Andrews have suggested that gorillas are capable of learning food cleaning behaviours without having to witness it in others first.
Though the authors acknowledge that general purpose social learning between individuals can help to increase the behaviour in frequency, their study of captive gorillas ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 6, 2017Paleontologists reveal Little Foot, the most complete remains of an early human relative  Salt Lake City, United States (AFP) Dec 5, 2017Trump removes protection for swaths of Utah parks  Durham NC (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Chimp females who leave home postpone parenthood |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2017 
An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unrecognized genus of extinct horses that roamed North America during the last ice age.
The new findings, published November 28 in the journal eLife, are based on an analysis of ancient DNA from fossils of the enigmatic "New World stilt-legged horse" excavated from sites such as Natural Trap Cave in Wyoming, Gypsum Cave in Ne ... more Paris (AFP) Dec 6, 2017Climate change: can hummingbirds take the heat?  Phnom Penh (AFP) Dec 6, 2017Cambodia seizes shipment of ivory hidden in hollow logs  Paris (AFP) Dec 5, 2017Sumatra's receding forests pushing tigers to the brink |
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 Silver Spring MD (SPX) Dec 07, 2017 
Three Phase 1 human clinical trials evaluating an Army-developed Zika purified inactivated virus (ZPIV) vaccine have shown it was safe and well-tolerated in healthy adults and induced a robust immune response. Initial findings from the trials were published in The Lancet.
Each of the three studies included in the paper was designed to address a unique question about background immunity, va ... moreNairobi (AFP) Dec 5, 2017UN warns of drug-resistant germ risk brewing in nature Abidjan (AFP) Dec 7, 2017One in two Africans don't know HIV status: expert Abidjan (AFP) Dec 6, 2017Campaigners incensed at failings in Africa AIDS war |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 7, 2017 
China touted its political and development model as it hosted an inaugural global human rights forum on Thursday, even as activists slammed the country's own abuses.
President Xi Jinping has overseen a sweeping crackdown on civil society since taking power in 2012, targeting everyone from human rights lawyers to celebrity gossip bloggers.
Hundreds of activists have been detained in the p ... more Beijing (AFP) Dec 4, 2017No class: China halts chauvinist 'female morality lessons'  Beijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2017Chinese teacher used needles to 'discipline' children: police  Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2017Tibetan monk self-immolates in China: campaigners |
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 Sydney (AFP) Aug 4, 2017 
A massive cocaine haul bound for Australia in the hull of a yacht has been intercepted by the French navy in the Pacific, officials said on Friday.
The 1.46 tonnes of the drug with an estimated street value of Aus$322 million (US$256 million) was seized in the South Pacific and four crew members, believed to be Lithuanian and Latvian nationals, arrested.
The vessel "Afalina", which set s ... more Jakarta (AFP) Aug 1, 2017Indonesia to deport 153 Chinese for $450 million scam  Washington (AFP) June 28, 2017US lists China among worst human trafficking offenders |
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 Brussels (AFP) Dec 6, 2017 
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday "we don't interfere in elections" when asked about Vladimir Putin seeking a new term at the Kremlin - amid deep concerns about Russian meddling in numerous European votes.
Putin, in power for the past 18 years, confirmed he would run in the March presidential election, where he is expected to win easily and become the longest-serving Russian leader ... more Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2017Pentagon braces for possible government shutdown  Vienna (AFP) Dec 7, 2017US warns Russia over Ukraine at OSCE meeting  Washington (AFP) Dec 6, 2017Trump aide Flynn planned to 'rip up' Russia sanctions: whistleblower |
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
The magnetic moment of an individual proton is inconceivably small, but can still be quantified. The basis for undertaking this measurement was laid over ten years ago, and physicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, GSI Darmstadt, and the RIKEN research institute in Japan are still performing experiments to measure this force with a sin ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Physicists make most precise measurement ever of a proton's magnetic moment  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2017Listening for gravitational waves using pulsars  New York NY (SPX) Nov 14, 2017Gravity waves from merging supermassive black holes will be found soon |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 29, 2017 
After a year marked by devastating cyber attacks and breaches, online attackers are expected to become even more destructive in 2018, security researchers said Wednesday.
A report by the security firm McAfee said the ransomware outbreaks of 2017 offer just a taste of what's to come as hackers develop new strategies and "business models."
McAfee researchers said that as ransomware profita ... more Brooklyn NY (SPX) Nov 30, 2017The ultimate defense against hackers may be just a few atoms thick  Durham NC (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Quantum computers help create hack-proof forms of data encryption  Washington (AFP) Nov 27, 2017US charges three Chinese for hacking Moody's, Siemens |
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 Doha (AFP) Dec 7, 2017  France's President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that Iraq would announce its total "liberation" from the grip of the Islamic State jihadist group by the end of December.
He made the prediction at a joint news conference with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani while on an official visit to Doha.
"There will be a liberation before the end of the year and we will, in the next mon ... more Baghdad (AFP) Dec 5, 2017Rights group criticises Iraq over jihadist suspects  Baghdad (AFP) Dec 4, 2017Iraq death toll at lowest level in five years  The Hague (AFP) Dec 4, 2017'Reasonable basis' for British war crimes in Iraq: ICC |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) Dec 6, 2017 
A car bomb Wednesday caused deaths in a Kurdish area of Iraq's northern Nineveh province, home to Kurds from Turkey who moved there three decades ago, a party official said.
"A car bomb exploded around 7:30 pm (1630 GMT) in the Shahid Rustum camp, two kilometres (one mile) east of the town of Makhmur, killing and wounding people," said the official from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) ... more Moscow (AFP) Dec 4, 2017Russia says provided air cover for Kurdish militia in Syria  Islamabad (AFP) Dec 4, 2017US defense chief lands in Pakistan as ties between allies fray  Islamabad (AFP) Dec 4, 2017US defense chief lands in Pakistan as ties between allies fray |
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 Bonn (AFP) Nov 16, 2017 
A score of mostly wealthy nations banded together at UN climate talks Thursday to swear off coal-fired power, a key driver of global warming and air pollution.
To cap global warming at "well under" two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) - the planet-saving target in the 196-nation Paris Agreement - coal must be phased out in developed countries by 2030, and "by no later than 2050 in ... more Bonn (AFP) Nov 16, 2017Anti-coal drive at UN climate talks stalked by pro-coal White House  Hambach Coal Mine, Near Niederzier, Germany (AFP) Nov 5, 2017Protest at open-pit coal mine near Bonn ahead of UN climate talks Washington (UPI) Oct 17, 2017Coal still holds a slight edge as U.S. power source |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2017 
NASA has tapped the University of Maryland to lead a new consortium focused on putting satellite data to use to enhance food security and agriculture around the world.
The Earth Observations for Food Security and Agriculture Consortium (EOFSAC) will combine the expertise of more than 40 partners to advance the use of Earth observations in informing decisions that affect the global food sup ... more Manchester UK (SPX) Dec 06, 2017What makes soil, soil? Researchers find hidden clues in DNA  Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Dec 07, 2017Drought-resistant plant genes could accelerate evolution of water-use efficient crops  Champaign IL (SPX) Dec 06, 2017Light green plants save nitrogen without sacrificing photosynthetic efficiency |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2017 
Within days of the announcement by NASA's Minor Planet Center of the discovery of the first-ever interstellar object, 'Oumuamua, B612's new Asteroid Institute began a collaborative effort that led to significant analysis about the discovery.
Bryce Bolin, a senior researcher at the Asteroid Institute as well as a DIRAC Institute Fellow, was the lead author on the study measuring 1I/'Oumuamu ... more Stirling UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2017Metal asteroid Psyche is all set for an early visit from NASA  Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Dec 07, 2017Rosetta details a comet's key ingredients  Paris (ESA) Nov 30, 2017Selected asteroids detected by GAIA between August 2014 And May 2016 |
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