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  Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 In a major medical breakthrough, Tel Aviv University researchers have "printed" the world's first 3D vascularised engineered heart using a patient's own cells and biological materials. Their findings were published on April 15 in a study in Advanced Science. Until now, scientists in regenerative medicine - a field positioned at the crossroads of biology and technology - have been successful in printing only simple tissues without blood vessels. "This is the first time anyone anywhere has suc ... 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  
Child vaccination levels falling short in large parts of AfricaSouthampton 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 vacci ... 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 
NASA Twins Study finds spaceflight affects gut bacteriaChicago IL (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 Research from NASA's landmark Twins Study found that extended spaceflight affects the human gut microbiome. During his yearlong stay on the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Scott Kelly e ... more |
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Medicare costs are lower in places with more trees and shrubsWashington (UPI) Apr 1, 2019 When researchers analyzed healthcare expenditures and environmental data in 3,086 of the 3,103 counties in the continental United States, they found counties with more trees and shrubs have lower Medicare costs. ... more 
Cholera cases rise to 139 as Mozambique prepares mass vaccinationsBeira, Mozambique (AFP) March 28, 2019 The number of confirmed cholera cases in cyclone-ravaged Mozambique climbed sharply to 139 Thursday as authorities prepared to roll out a mass vaccination campaign to stem the spread of the deadly disease. ... more 
Cyclone-hit Mozambique fears cholera epidemicBeira, Mozambique (AFP) March 29, 2019 Doctors and nurses wearing Wellington boots and face masks tended to patients in tents at a hastily-erected treatment centre in Beira, Mozambique following the devastation of cyclone Idai and its aftermath. ... more 
Rapid magnetic 3D printing of human cellsHamilton, Canada (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 Imagine being able to visit your physician, and instead of being given a one-size-fits-all treatment, you are given a specifically customized medication for your symptoms. A team of McMaster U ... more 
Engineering cellular function without living cellsLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 27, 2019 Genes in living cells are activated - or not - by proteins called transcription factors. The mechanisms by which these proteins activate certain genes and deactivate others play a fundamental role i ... more |
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 Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique reports five cholera cases 
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  |
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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 
Zika study may 'supercharge' vaccine researchBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 Scientists looking at the genetics of Zika virus have found a way to fast-track research which could lead to new vaccines. The study, led by The University of Queensland and QIMR Berghofer Med ... more 
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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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) April 12, 2019  At least two people were killed when adjacent apartment buildings collapsed in an impoverished neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro on Friday, Brazilian officials said, days after torrential rain wreaked havoc in the city.
Another seven were injured when the structures in the Muzema favela - where many of the cheaply-made buildings are erected without permits - buckled in the early morning when ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Apr 15, 2019  Not all ants serve a single queen. Researchers have discovered colonies of tropical fire ants, insects native to Florida and coastal Georgia, living under the rule of multiple queens.
Scientists discovered the multi-queen colonies situated next to single-queen colonies.
"The coexistence of two dramatically different social structures fascinated me," researcher Kip Lacy said in a ... 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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 Panghsang, Myanmar (AFP) April 17, 2019 
It has a standing army of 25,000, manufactures its own guns and conscripts at least one member of each household - meet the United Wa State Army: Communist, reclusive, China-backed rebels determined to protect their supremacy over Myanmar's badland border zone.
Thousands of soldiers, including a company of women and a sniper platoon in combat webbing, marched early Wednesday alongside armou ... 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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 Washington (AFP) April 15, 2019 
A Pentagon-commissioned report published Monday envisions equipping Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with "resistance" cells armed with unconventional weapons to deter Russia from invading.
These capabilities would range from cyber to drones to long-range mobile communications and non-lethal weapons as well as small arms, explosives, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, the Rand Corporation rep ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
On March 17, 2002, the German-US satellite duo GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) were launched to map the global gravitational field with unprecedented precision. After all, the mission lasted a good 15 years - more than three times as long as expected. When the two satellites burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, respectively, they had record ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) April 15, 2019 
Chinese authorities are using a vast system of facial recognition technology to track its Uighur Muslim minority across the country, according to a story in the New York Times.
Beijing has already attracted widespread criticism for its treatment of Uighurs in the northwest region of Xinjiang, where up to one million members of mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking minority groups are held in internm ... more |
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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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 Kabul (AFP) April 16, 2019 
Afghanistan published Tuesday a lengthy list of delegates who will meet with the Taliban in Doha this week, including government officials, in what could become the highest-level dialogue between the sworn enemies in years.
A massive roster published by the presidential palace comprises 250 names, including President Ashraf Ghani's chief of staff, Abdul Salam Rahimi, as well as his election ... more |
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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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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 
A tiny piece of the building blocks from which comets formed has been discovered inside a primitive meteorite. The discovery by a Carnegie Institution of Science-led team, including a researcher now at Arizona State University, was published April 15 in Nature Astronomy.
The finding could offer clues to the formation, structure, and evolution of the solar system.
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