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  Southampton UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 A study by the University of Southampton shows that several low-and middle-income countries, especially in Africa, need more effective child vaccination strategies to eliminate the threat from vaccine-preventable diseases. Geographers from the University's WorldPop group found diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (pertussis) vaccination levels in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Mozambique and also in Cambodia, southeast Asia, fall short of the 80 per cent threshold rec ... read more |
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Next-generation gene drive arrivesSan Diego CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 New CRISPR-based gene drives and broader active genetics technologies are revolutionizing the way scientists engineer the transfer of specific traits from one generation to another. Scientists ... more  
Scientists from NUST MISIS create a super-fast robot microscope to search for dark matterMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 Researchers from the National University of science and technology MISIS (NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Naples, Italy) have developed a simple and ... more 
Space-enabled mobile laboratory ready for medical emergenciesParis (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 A laboratory that enables first responders to combat biological hazards and infectious diseases rapidly and safely has demonstrated its strengths during a simulated biological incident conducted in ... more 
Will cyborgs be made from melanin? Pigment breakthrough enables biocompatible electronicsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 The dark brown melanin pigment, eumelanin, colors hair and eyes, and protects our skin from sun damage. It has also long been known to conduct electricity, but too little for any useful application ... more |
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Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique reports five cholera casesBeira, Mozambique (AFP) March 27, 2019 Five cases of cholera have been confirmed in Mozambique following the cyclone that ravaged the country killing at least 468 people, a government health official said Wednesday. ... more 
Testing the value of artificial gravity for astronaut healthParis (ESA) Mar 22, 2019 Test subjects in Cologne, Germany will take to their beds for 60 days from 25 March as part of a groundbreaking study, funded by European Space Agency ESA and US space agency NASA, into how artifici ... more 
Dormant viruses reactivate during spaceflightWashington DC (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions, according to NASA research published in Frontiers in Microbiology. While only a sma ... more 
Superbugs have colonized the International Space StationWashington DC (SPX) Mar 20, 2019 Astronauts leave behind many things when they boldly go. Bacteria, however, stay with them. Extreme spaceflight conditions can force these bacteria to toughen up, while simultaneously lowering ... more 
New material will allow abandoning bone marrow transplantationMoscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 20, 2019 Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" developed nanomaterial, which will be able to rstore the internal structure of bones damaged due to osteoporosis and osteomy ... more |
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China's finds microgravity promotes iPS cells regenerative potentialBeijing (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 Research findings from China's Tianzhou-1 Space Mission have shown that the microgravity environment in space promotes heart cell differentiation of mice induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, provid ... more  |
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Effects of spaceflight on heart cell formation from stem cellsNew Rochelle NY (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 Researchers used time-lapse imaging to show that mouse induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) grown during spaceflight differentiated into cardiomyocytes significantly faster than similar cells grow ... more  
Listening to quantum radioDelft, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 11, 2019 Researchers at Delft University of Technology have created a quantum circuit that enables them to listen to the weakest radio signal allowed by quantum mechanics. This new quantum circuit opens the ... more 
Facebook launches offensive to combat misinformation on vaccinesWashington (AFP) March 7, 2019 Facebook launched an offensive Thursday to suppress the spread of misinformation about vaccines on the 2.3-billion-member social network. ... more  
Department of Managed Health of California Fines Healthnet Multiple Times For AppealLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 Being Diagnosed with prostate cancer shakes your foundation, then when Healthnet plays shenanigans it gets disturbing. Brad Bartz fancies himself an advocate for a level playing field where everyone ... more  
Fast, flexible ionic transistors for bioelectronic devicesNew York NY (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 Many major advances in medicine, especially in neurology, have been sparked by recent advances in electronic systems that can acquire, process, and interact with biological substrates. These bioelec ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 15, 2019 
Police have detained 17 more suspects connected to a chemical blast in eastern China last month which killed 78 and left hundreds injured, local authorities said Monday.
The explosion in eastern Jiangsu province was one of the worst industrial accidents in the country in recent years and led to the closure of the plant.
Police have taken "criminal coercive measures" against the 17 suspec ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
The GAINS project has moved one step closer to demonstrating that general aviation (GA) is able to fly instrument procedures with radius-to-fix (RF) legs, thanks to a strong collaboration with EASA and the manufacturing industry, who worked together to clear the way for existing avionics to be used.
GAINS - General Aviation Improved Navigation and Surveillance, is a project co-funded by th ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2019 
The findings are based on a new study led by Murray Cox from Massey University in New Zealand and made possible by sampling efforts led by Herawati Sudoyo from the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology in Jakarta, Indonesia. The data were collected and analyzed by an international team of researchers, including Mark Stoneking from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 
Like humans and animals, plants defend themselves against pathogens with the help of their immune system. But how do they activate their cellular defenses? Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now discovered that receptors in plant cells identify bacteria through simple molecular building blocks.
"The immune system of plants is more sophisticated than we thought," s ... more |
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 Southampton UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 
A study by the University of Southampton shows that several low-and middle-income countries, especially in Africa, need more effective child vaccination strategies to eliminate the threat from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Geographers from the University's WorldPop group found diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (pertussis) vaccination levels in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 11, 2019 
China is planning to send millions of youth "volunteers" back to the villages, raising fears of a return to the methods of Chairman Mao's brutal Cultural Revolution of 50 years ago.
The Communist Youth League (CYL) has promised to despatch more than 10 million students to "rural zones" by 2022 in order to "increase their skills, spread civilization and promote science and technology," accord ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) April 1, 2019 
The International Criminal Court's top official has called on the United States to join and support its work after Washington recently stepped up its dispute with the global legal body.
ICC president Chile Eboe-Osuji called on the US to "join her closest allies and friends at the table of the Rome Statute", referring to the court's founding document.
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 Dubrovnik, Croatia (AFP) April 12, 2019 
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will meet leaders from eastern and central Europe in Croatia on Friday to talk business, fresh from a key summit with EU where he pledged opening up his country's economy.
The coastal city of Dubrovnik is hosting the eighth annual "16+1 cooperation" - an economic platform for Beijing's investments in 11 eastern European Union states and five Western Balkan countri ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
The history of science is filled with stories of enthusiastic researchers slowly winning over skeptical colleagues to their point of view. Astrophysicist Scott Hughes can relate to these tales.
"For the first 15 or 16 years of my career I was speaking to astronomers, and I always had the impression that they were politely interested in what I had to say, but regarded me as a little bit of ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) April 12, 2019 
Security researchers this week confirmed that they spotted new activity by hackers using "Triton" malware capable of doing real-world damage to oil, gas or water plants.
The security firm FireEye said in a blog post Wednesday that it had identified and was "responding to an additional intrusion by the attacker behind Triton at a different critical infrastructure facility."
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 Baghdad (AFP) April 14, 2019  Iraq has begun trial proceedings for nearly 900 Iraqi suspected members of the Islamic State group caught fleeing jihadist territory in neighbouring Syria, a judicial source told AFP on Sunday.
They were handed over to Iraqi authorities by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which ousted IS from swathes of eastern Syria including territory bordering Iraq.
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 Qamishli, Syria (AFP) April 11, 2019 
Syrian Kurds on Thursday announced a deal with Baghdad for 31,000 displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, to return from camps in northeastern Syria to Iraq.
Tens of thousands of people live in the camps, which swelled during the months-long battle by a Kurdish-led force against the last vestige of the Islamic State group's "caliphate".
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 Sydney (AFP) April 9, 2019 
A major Australian coal mine project near the Great Barrier Reef was controversially approved by the federal government Tuesday, days before national elections are expected to be called.
The controversial Queensland project backed by India's Adani would significantly boost coal production, but must now get approval from state and local governments.
The project faces fierce opposition and ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 
Around 80 percent of land area in Europe is used for settlement, agriculture and forestry. In order to increase yields even further than current levels, exploitation is being intensified. Areas are being consolidated in order to cultivate them more efficiently using larger machines. Pesticides and fertilisers are increasingly being used and a larger number of animals being kept on grazing land. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2019  Why do asteroids and meteoroids collide with Earth? These objects orbit the Sun just like the planets, as they have been doing for billions of years, but small effects such as gravitational nudges from the planets can jostle the orbits, making them gradually shift over million-year timescales or abruptly reposition if there is a close planetary encounter. Over time ... more |
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