A new finding could bring scientists one step closer to a possible treatment for malaria, a disease that claims most lives in third world countries and sub-Saharan Africa.
The work has been reported by a team of researchers at Edinburgh University, in the US, Mali and Kenya who studied a population of 567 African […]
Archive for October, 2007
New discovery raises hopes for malaria treatment
Published October 31st, 2007 in Science, Innovation, Body & Mind and Human World. 3 CommentsHundreds of massive black holes uncovered
Published October 28th, 2007 in Science and Space. 1 CommentAn international team of astronomers led by Emanuele Daddi of the Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique in France has unveiled hundreds of one of the most mysterious objects present in the Universe: black holes.
The discovery was made possible using NASA’s Spitzer and Chandra X-ray telescopes, which were set out to probe 1,000 dusty galaxies lying […]
A potential malaria vaccine by 2010
Published October 17th, 2007 in Science, Innovation and Body & Mind. 1 CommentSpain’s Pedro Alonso leads a team of experts currently working on a vaccine in the war against malaria, a disease carried by mosquitoes that kills more than a million people each year.
Dr. Alonso lives and works in Mozambique, a region where Malaria is widespread. In 1996, he founded the Manhiça Health Research Center located […]
Since the dawn of time, humankind has looked up at the sky in awe and wonder. Also for long has there been public dispute between scientists and the Church over the role of astronomy in our society and the larger world.
For the second time in seven years the Vatican has hosted a five-day astronomy […]