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  Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 Research on HIV over the past decade has led to many promising ideas for vaccines to prevent infection by the AIDS virus, but very few candidate vaccines have been tested in clinical trials. One reason for this is the technical difficulty of manufacturing vaccines based on the envelope proteins of the virus, according to Phil Berman, who led development of a major component of the only vaccine to have shown any efficacy against HIV in a clinical trial. Berman, the Baskin Professor of Biomole ... read more |
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Syria strikes kill 28 civilians in rebel area near DamascusArbin, Syria (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 Regime air strikes killed 28 civilians in a rebel enclave near Damascus on Monday as Syria's seven-year-old conflict raged on several fronts with non-combatants paying a heavy price. ... more  
NASA Twins Study confirms preliminary findingsHouston TX (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 The Twin Study propelled NASA into the genomics era of space travel. It was a ground-breaking study comparing what happened to astronaut Scott Kelly, in space, to his identical twin brother, Mark, w ... more 
Scientists design bacteria to reflect 'sonar' signals for ultrasound imagingPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2018 In the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine is shrunken down and injected into a scientist's body to repair a blood clot in his brain. While the movie may be still be fiction, res ... more 
Soft, self-healing devices mimic biological musclesBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 In the basement of the Engineering Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, a group of researchers is working to create the next generation of robots. Instead of the metallic droids you may be ... more |
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First monkeys cloned by process that made Dolly the sheepBeijing (AFP) Jan 24, 2018 Scientists in China have created the first monkeys cloned by the same process that produced Dolly the sheep more than 20 years ago, a breakthrough that could boost medical research into human diseases. ... more 
New robot can help treat rare birth defectSheffield UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 Researchers at the University of Sheffield and Boston's Children Hospital, Harvard Medical School have created a robot that can be implanted into the body to aid the treatment of oesophageal atresia ... more 
Scientists find new clues about 'wave after wave' of germs that killed the AztecsWashington (UPI) Jan 18, 2018 Scientists have uncovered new clues to the germs responsible for killing millions of native people in 16th century Mexico. Still, unanswered questions remain. ... more 
'Mutant flu' could lead to more effective vaccine: studyMiami (AFP) Jan 18, 2018 Experiments in lab animals have shown signs of success for a newly engineered flu virus that may lead one day to a more effective vaccine, researchers said Thursday. ... more 
Biodegradable sensor could help doctors monitor serious health conditionsStorrs CT (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 UConn engineers have created a biodegradable pressure sensor that could help doctors monitor chronic lung disease, swelling of the brain, and other medical conditions before dissolving harmlessly in ... more |
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Women who work nights face higher cancer risk: studyMiami (AFP) Jan 8, 2018 Women who regularly work the night shift in Europe and North America may face a 19 percent higher risk of cancer than those who work during the day, said a study Monday. ... more  |
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Stingray soft robot could lead to bio-inspired roboticsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 UCLA bioengineering professor Ali Khademhosseini has led the development of a tissue-based soft robot that mimics the biomechanics of a stingray. The new technology could lead to advances in bio-ins ... more  
Life-saving NASA Communications System Turns 20Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) don't just enable data from spacecraft to reach Earth - they provide internet and even telemedicine to researchers at the South Pole. The South Pole ... more 
With headbands, sensor socks, wearable tech seeks medical inroadsLas Vegas (AFP) Jan 12, 2018 Want to manage your stress? A "neurofeedback" headband could help. Need to be sure your elderly father is taking his medication? Attach a sensor to his sock. ... more 
TSRI scientists discover workings of first promising Marburg virus treatmentLa Jolla CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 With a mortality rate of up to 88 percent, Marburg virus can rip through a community in days. In 2005, an outbreak of Marburg virus struck a pediatric ward in the country of Angola. With no treatmen ... more 
Pharmaceuticals are triggering microbial resistance in urban streamsWashington (UPI) Jan 9, 2018 Microbial communities in urban streams are developing resistance to drugs as a result of pharmaceutical pollution. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 
Eight people died and three were missing in southern China after a water leak inside a subway station construction site caused a major road to cave in, authorities said Thursday.
The sudden leak flooded the underground site and led to the multi-lane road's collapse in downtown Foshan, Guangdong province, on Wednesday night, the city government said in a statement.
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 06, 2018 
The Galileo satellite navigation system, Europe's rival to the United States' GPS, has nearly 100 million users after its first year of operation, the French space agency CNES said Thursday.
The system, seen as strategically important to Europe, went live in December 2016, having taken 17 years at more than triple the original budget to get there.
Initial services offered only a weak sig ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 2, 2018  A series of LiDAR surveys has revealed some 60,000 ancient Mayan structures hiding under the jungle canopy in Guatemala.
The hundreds of houses, palaces and roads identified by the surveys have offered new insights into the sophisticated organization of the Mayan civilization at the height of their cultural and political dominance between 250 and 900 AD.
LiDAR stands for "Light D ... more |
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 Bangkok (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 
The rescue in Laos of three endangered red pandas trafficked from China has raised fears the rare animals are increasingly being coveted by exotic pet owners.
Landlocked Laos, which borders China and Vietnam, is a key transit hub in the global trade in illegal wildlife, but experts say the discovery of red pandas there is virtually unheard of.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
Bacteria underpins much of our world, acting behind the scenes to affect the health and behavior of animals and plants. They help produce food, provide oxygen, and even reshape the environment through a vast array of biological processes.
They come in a phenomenal number of strains-many still unknown-and thrive in different ecological and environmental niches all over the world. But while ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2018  China acknowledged Tuesday that Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai was in custody under criminal law, brushing aside Stockholm's protests after he was seized under the eyes of Swedish diplomats last month.
Gui, 53, was arrested on a train to Beijing just over two weeks ago while being assisted by two Swedish diplomats - the second time he has disappeared in murky circumstances into Chinese c ... more |
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 Bangkok (AFP) Jan 25, 2018 
Thailand's navy has seized 11 million meth pills from traffickers crossing from Laos via the Mekong River, a record bust from a communist state that is emerging as a key Asian drug route.
Authorities pounced as the boat landed in Nakhon Phanom on the Thai side of the Mekong, which acts as a natural border with Laos.
Poor and remote, Nakhon Phanom is a notorious hub for smuggling of peopl ... more |
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 Darwin, Australia (AFP) Feb 6, 2018  US commitment to the Asia-Pacific remains unwavering even though rivals falsely depict its influence as waning, the country's top general said Tuesday.
General Joe Dunford's remarks came weeks after the Pentagon unveiled a new national defence strategy labelling China as a "strategic competitor" that bullies its neighbours, and as America seeks to counter a narrative that President Donald T ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 
Acoustic tractor beams use the power of sound to hold particles in mid-air, and unlike magnetic levitation, they can grab most solids or liquids. For the first time University of Bristol engineers have shown it is possible to stably trap objects larger than the wavelength of sound in an acoustic tractor beam. This discovery opens the door to the manipulation of drug capsules or micro-surgical im ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 2, 2018 
China Friday ordered the country's microblog operators to establish mechanisms to remove false information, in the latest move by authorities to tighten policing of the web.
The Cyberspace Administration of China said the Twitter-like microblog platforms have allowed the spread of pornographic, vulgar and fraudulent content.
In addition to making sure to remove such content, companies sh ... more |
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 Ramadi, Iraq (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 
A suicide bombing killed one person in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday, the first such attack since government forces retook it from jihadists, police and medics said.
"A man driving a motorcycle blew himself up outside a police checkpoint," in Ramadi, a police captain said.
A hospital source said one person was killed and 10 others were wounded.
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 Wakhan Corridor , Afghanistan (AFP) Feb 9, 2018 
"Taliban - what's that?" asks Sultan Begium shyly from her freezing home in Afghanistan's mountainous Wakhan Corridor, a region so remote that its residents are untouched by the decades of conflict that have devastated their country.
The frail-looking grandmother whose harsh life has etched deep lines in her face, is a woman of the Wakhi, a tribe of roughly 12,000 nomadic people who populat ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 4, 2018 
Embattled Indian miner Adani's plans for a massive coal project in Australia has been dealt another blow after the government confirmed Sunday it would not fund a rail link to the facility.
The development of the controversial US$16 billion Carmichael mine near the Great Barrier Reef is set to be one of the world's largest. But it has been delayed by several years amid regulatory and legal h ... more |
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 Harpenden UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
China will need more than three times as much milk by 2050 as it produced in 2010 and, without changes to its current supply lines, the demand will lift global greenhouse gas emissions from dairy herds by 35%, expand dairy land by 32% and increase nitrogen pollution from dairy production by 48%.
"The consequences of sticking to a 'business-as-usual' scenario are unthinkable," says Zhaohai ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2018 
Two small asteroids recently discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, are safely passing by Earth within one lunar distance this week.
The first of this week's close-approaching asteroids - discovered by CSS on Feb. 4 - is designated asteroid 2018 CC. Its close approach to Earth came Tuesday (Feb. 6) at 12:10 p.m. PST (3:10 p.m. EST) at a ... more |
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