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  Shanghai (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 African swine fever has spread rapidly to more than half of China's provinces despite measures to contain it, the government said, warning that a situation previously described as under control had become "very serious." The disease has already caused a spike in pork prices in China since first emerging in August, and fuelled growing fears of a major impact on the world's largest pig producer. "The African swine fever prevention and control situation is very serious," said a joint statement by t ... read more |
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Small tissue chips in space a big leap forward for researchHouston TX (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 A small device that contains human cells in a 3D matrix represents a giant leap in the ability of scientists to test how those cells respond to stresses, drugs and genetic changes. About the size of ... more  
China mulls $720,000 fine for faking vaccine tests after scandalBeijing (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 Chinese vaccine manufacturers who falsify test results or break other rules could be fined up to $720,000 under a new law proposed after a scandal that fulled public fears over domestically made medicine. ... more 
Regeneration science takes a leap forwardMedford MA (SPX) Nov 07, 2018 Researchers led by Tufts University biologists and engineers have found that delivering progesterone to an amputation injury site can induce the regeneration of limbs in otherwise non-regenerative a ... more 
Use of monkeys for medical research hits all-time highWashington (UPI) Nov 5, 2018 Use of monkeys in medical research hit an all-time high in 2017, according to United States Department of Agriculture data. ... more |
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New model helps define optimal temperature and pressure to forge nanoscale diamondsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 Nanodiamonds, bits of crystalline carbon hundreds of thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, have intriguing surface and chemical properties with potential applications in medicine, optoele ... more 
Russian Scientists Start Research on Impact of Zero-Gravity on HumansMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 11, 2018 The Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Biomedical Problems has initiated research on the influence of zero-G on the human body during flights to the Moon and back; around 20 people will engag ... more 
China fines pharma firm $1.3 billion in vaccine scandalBeijing (AFP) Oct 16, 2018 Chinese authorities have slapped penalties totalling a whopping $1.3 billion on a pharmaceutical company over a vaccine scandal that fuelled public fears of domestically-made medicine, drug regulators said Tuesday. ... more 
Biomaterials with 'Frankenstein proteins' help heal tissueDurham NC (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 Biomedical engineers from Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis have demonstrated that, by injecting an artificial protein made from a solution of ordered and disordered segments, a ... more  
Discovering New Molecules for Military ApplicationsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 The efficient discovery and production of new molecules is essential for a range of military capabilities-from developing safe chemical warfare agent simulants and medicines to counter emerging thre ... more |
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 A step towards biological warfare with insects? 
15 emerging technologies that could reduce global catastrophic biological risksBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 Strategic investment in 15 promising technologies could help make the world better prepared and equipped to prevent future infectious disease outbreaks from becoming catastrophic events. This ... more  |
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Vaccinating humans to protect mosquitoes from malariaBuffalo NY (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 For decades, scientists have been trying to develop a vaccine that prevents mosquitoes from spreading malaria among humans. This unique approach - in which immunized humans transfer anti-malar ... more 
100 years on, Spanish Flu holds lessons for next pandemicParis (AFP) Oct 8, 2018 It was the disease to end all others, infecting a third of humanity, killing tens of millions in their beds and prompting panicked talk of the end of days across continents still reeling from war. ... more  
US calls ruling a defeat for Iran, ends treatyWashington (AFP) Oct 3, 2018 The United States on Wednesday called an international court ruling against its Iran sanctions a defeat for Tehran as it terminated a 1955 treaty on which the case was based. ... more 
Animal study suggests deep space travel may significantly damage GI function in astronautsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2018 Simulations with animal models meant to mirror galactic cosmic radiation exposure to astronauts are raising red flags for investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) about the healt ... more
Foreign drugs rare commodity in sanctions-hit IranTehran (AFP) Oct 4, 2018 "Talk of sanctions on Iran reemerged, and my essential medicine was no longer available," said Masoud Mir who suffers from thalassaemia, a genetic blood disease common in Iran. ... more |
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 Port Moresby (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 
Papua New Guinea has deployed a multi-national force of warships, fighter jets and elite counter-terrorism troops to protect world leaders attending a major summit in its crime-plagued capital this week.
About 4,000 military personnel, around half of them foreign, will work with hundreds of police to patrol Port Moresby for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum from Saturday, which wil ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 
Oslo on Tuesday pointed a finger squarely at Russia, accusing it of jamming GPS signals in Norway's Far North when it hosted NATO's massive exercises in October and early November.
"We know that jamming was observed between October 19 and November 7, originating from Russian ground forces in (the) Kola" peninsula, a region of northwestern Russia close to Norway, the Norwegian defence ministr ... more |
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 Cape Cod MA (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
More than 4,000 years ago, the Harappa culture thrived in the Indus River Valley of what is now modern Pakistan and northwestern India, where they built sophisticated cities, invented sewage systems that predated ancient Rome's, and engaged in long-distance trade with settlements in Mesopotamia.
Yet by 1800 BCE, this advanced culture had abandoned their cities, moving instead to smaller vi ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 
The orphaned cubs of a man-eating tiger killed in a state-sanctioned hunt have been spotted in a forest in western India and could be rescued and rehabilitated, officials said Thursday.
The mother was shot dead in early November after being accused of killing more than a dozen villagers, capping off one of India's most high-profile tiger hunts and angering conservation activists.
The mon ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 
African swine fever has spread rapidly to more than half of China's provinces despite measures to contain it, the government said, warning that a situation previously described as under control had become "very serious."
The disease has already caused a spike in pork prices in China since first emerging in August, and fuelled growing fears of a major impact on the world's largest pig produce ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 16, 2018 
Hong Kong's powerful bar association, a group of the city's top lawyers, has upped pressure on the government to explain the blacklisting of a British journalist in what was widely seen as an unprecedented attack on press freedom.
Victor Mallet, a senior journalist with the Financial Times, was refused a work visa extension and then barred from entering the city as a tourist after he chaired ... more |
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 Mexico City (AFP) Aug 7, 2018 
In the middle of the street, corpses riddled with bullets. Underground, thousands of bodies heaped in clandestine graves. And in the mountains, drug gangs locked in armed conflict with the military.
These grim scenes have increasingly become the norm in Mexico, a country gripped by violence stemming from its war on drugs which since 2006 has seen more than 200,000 murders and 30,000 people g ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 14, 2018 
The United States is facing a national security and military crisis and could lose in a war against Russia or China, a bipartisan congressional panel warned in a report Wednesday.
Congress had tasked the National Defense Strategy Commission to look at President Donald Trump's sweeping National Defense Strategy (NDS), which highlights a new era of "Great Power competition" with Moscow and Bei ... more |
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 Nathan, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
Griffith University researchers have demonstrated a procedure for making precise measurements of speed, acceleration, material properties and even gravity waves possible, approaching the ultimate sensitivity allowed by laws of quantum physics.
Published in Nature Communications, the work saw the Griffith team, led by Professor Geoff Pryde, working with photons (single particles of light) a ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 
The world's biggest airline data breach, affecting millions of Cathay Pacific customers, was the result of a sustained cyber attack that lasted for three months, the carrier admitted, while insisting it was on alert for further intrusions.
The Hong Kong-based firm was subjected to continuous breaches that were at their "most intense" from March to May but continued after, it said in a writte ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Nov 14, 2018 
The Iraqi government said Wednesday it had retaken ownership of a piece of property in Baghdad worth millions of dollars after it was unlawfully sold to a government official's wife.
In a statement to journalists, the Integrity Commission said it had worked with Baghdad authorities to recover the land in Kadhimiyah district.
"The Baghdad-Karakh appeals court issued a decision to seize th ... more |
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 Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 
When Iraq's female cycling team snatched bronze and silver medals at a landmark pan-Arab race, it was thanks to athletes from the autonomous Kurdish region.
The country's toughest female competitors, its best-equipped facilities and most experienced coaches are not in the capital Baghdad, but in the Kurdish-majority northern region.
And the three medals won by the Iraqi female cyclists i ... more |
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 Islamkot, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 
In Pakistan's bleak Thar desert, the roar of trucks is constant at a massive Chinese-backed coal power project the government sees as an answer to chronic energy shortages, but which activists warn is an environmental disaster.
Machines are running round the clock to finish the mine and coal power plant, a flagship project of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) plan that has seen Bei ... more |
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 Saint-Colomban-Des-Villards, France (AFP) Nov 14, 2018 
He sleeps fully dressed, dreading a midnight wolf attack on the flock of sheep penned in close by his hut, high up in the French Alps.
"The fears of last year came back," says Gaetan Meme, after his third season of transhumance, the timeless tradition of guiding livestock up into the rich alpine pastures to graze and staying with them.
The green velvet mountains dotted with rocky outcrop ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its fourth Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-4) yesterday. The spacecraft fired its Attitude Control System (ACS) thrusters to slow the spacecraft from approximately 0.31 mph (0.14 m/sec) to 0.10 mph (0.04 m/sec).
The ACS thrusters are capable of velocity changes as small as 0.02 mph (0.01 m/sec).
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