Bouillon fortified with a new iron compound could help reduce iron deficiency
Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Iron fortification of food is a cost-effective method of preventing iron deficiency. But finding ...
Tag: Disease in the Developing World
Refugee camps vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks
Credit: Russell Watkins/UK Department for International Development, Flickr A COVID-19 outbreak in a refugee settlement will likely overwhelm the available ...
Antibodies against sugars, internal radiation: Powerful package against cervical cancer
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University The sugar coating on cancer cells helps them thrive, and a new study ...
The Lancet Global Health: Estimates suggest one in five people worldwide have an underlying health condition that could increase their risk of severe COVID-19 if infected
Credit: The Lancet Global Health The share of the population at increased risk (with at least one underlying health condition ...
NIH launches analytics platform to harness COVID-19 patient data to speed treatments
Credit: National Center for Translational Sciences The National Institutes of Health has launched a centralized, secure enclave to store and ...
Parents twice as likely to be concerned about ticks than of mosquitoes
Just 1 in 3 parents use a bug repellent on their child that contains DEET, which is most effective in ...
Designing new radiotherapy technologies to treat cancer in low and middle-income countries
A new project supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) aims to design and develop new radiotherapy technologies ...
ModGraProDep: Artificial intelligence and probabilistic modelling in clinical oncology
Mathematic modelling: new frontiers in the fight against cancerCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE Improving the prediction ...
A compound unlike any other
Credit: WSU A compound discovered in the gills of wood-eating clams could be the solution to a group of parasites ...
An ISGlobal team achieves massive sexual conversion of the malaria parasite in a dish
The technique will facilitate the design of new tools to block disease transmissionCredit: Oriol Llorà Batlle/ISGlobal A research team at ...
Clocking in with malaria parasites
Credit: © 2020 Amit Subudhi The parasites responsible for malaria seem to march to their own beat. The mystery behind ...
Learning from history to fight against COVID-19
Grant awarded to MU researchers looks for similarities, differences between 1918 flu pandemic and COVID-19 pandemicCredit: Image courtesy of The ...
Stanford-led study suggests a new approach to reducing spread of mosquito-borne diseases
Credit: Desiree Labeaud (Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itsG_bZdY7w&feature=emb_logo) In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, another source of deadly and increasingly frequent ...
Ground-breaking research makes childhood vaccines safe in all temperatures
University of Bath Press ReleaseCredit: University of Bath Vaccines are notoriously difficult to transport to remote or dangerous places, as ...
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