The radiofrequency (RF) exposure from mobile phones was not associated with an increased risk of glioma, acoustic neuroma, salivary gland tumours, or brain tumours. There was no observable increase in relative risks for the most investigated types of cancers with increasing time … | Continue reading
The radiofrequency (RF) exposure from mobile phones was not associated with an increased risk of glioma, acoustic neuroma, salivary gland tumours, or brain tumours. There was no observable increase in relative risks for the most investigated types of cancers with increasing time … | Continue reading
To curb antibiotic pollution from manufacturing, WHO has published first-ever guidance on wastewater and solid waste management for antibiotic manufacturing ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which is sheduled … | Continue reading
BNT116 and LungVax are nucleic acid lung cancer vaccine candidates – the former is based on mRNA technology similar to “COVID-19 mRNA vaccines” such as BNT162b2 of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna’s mRNA-1273 while the LungVax vaccine is similar to Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. … | Continue reading
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) lecanemab and donanemab have been approved for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease in the UK and USA respectively while lecanemab has been refused marketing authorisation in the EU in view of “unsatisfactory” safety and efficacy data from the c … | Continue reading
Matter has dual nature; everything exists both as particle and wave. At a temperature close to absolute zero, the wave nature of atoms become observable by radiation in visible range. At such ultracold temperatures in nanoKelvin range, the atoms coalesce into a single larger enti … | Continue reading
FDA has approved the first device for automated insulin dosing for Type 2 Diabetes condition. This follows expansion of indication of Insulet SmartAdjust technology (an interoperable automated glycemic controller) which is indicated for the management of type 1 diabetes. Now, thi … | Continue reading
The APXC instrument aboard the lunar rover of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 moon mission conducted in-situ spectroscopic study to ascertain abundance of elements in the soil around the landing site in south polar region of the Moon. This was the first in-situ study of elemental compositio … | Continue reading
The monkeypox virus (MPXV), called so because of its first discovery in monkeys kept in research facility in Denmark, is closely related to variola virus that causes smallpox. It is responsible for monkeypox (mpox) disease that has gradually emerged in Africa following eradicatio … | Continue reading
The upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and in many other countries in Africa has been determined by WHO to constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). The Committee of ex … | Continue reading
Spectral analysis of luminous galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 based on observations made in January 2024 revealed a redshift of 14.32 which makes it the most distant galaxy known (previous most-distant galaxy known was JADES-GS-z13-0 at the redshift of z = 13.2). It was formed in the early … | Continue reading
In view of serious and growing outbreak of monkeypox (Mpox) disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that has now spread outside the country and detection of the new strain that first emerged in September 2023 outside DRC, WHO has invited manufacturers of mpox vaccin … | Continue reading
Neffy (epinephrine nasal spray) has been approved by the FDA for the emergency treatment of Type I allergic reactions including life-threatening anaphylaxis. This provides an alternative route of administration of epinephrine to those (especially children) averse to injections an … | Continue reading
On 2nd August 2024, Elon Musk announced that his firm Neuralink has implanted Brain-computer interface (BCI) device to a second participant. He said the procedure went well, the device is working well and hoped to perform BCI device implantation procedures on another eight partic … | Continue reading
Tecelra (afamitresgene autoleucel), a gene therapy for the treatment of adults with metastatic synovial sarcoma has been approved by the FDA. The approval was based on assessment of safety and effectiveness in a multicentre, open-label clinical trial. It is the first FDA-approved … | Continue reading
Fossils of ancient chromosomes with intact three-dimensional structure belonging to extinct woolly mammoth have been discovered from 52,000 old sample preserved in Siberian permafrost. This is the first case of fully preserved ancient chromosome. Study of fossil chromosomes can s … | Continue reading
Supernova SN 1181 was seen with the naked eye in Japan and Chine 843 years ago in 1181 CE. However, its remanent could not be identified for a long time. In 2021, the nebula Pa 30 situated towards the constellation Cassiopeia was identified with the supernova SN 1181. The white d … | Continue reading
A large-scale study with lengthy follow ups has found that daily use of multivitamins by healthy individuals is NOT associated with health improvement or a lower risk of death. Healthy individuals who took multivitamins daily had the same risk of death from any cause than individ … | Continue reading
The gigantic uniform aurora seen from the ground on the Christmas night of 2022 has been confirmed to be polar rain aurora. This was the first ground-based observation of polar rain aurora. Unlike typical aurora which are driven by the incident electrons stored in the magnetotail … | Continue reading
In a recently published report, the Will Lab team of Columbia University reports success in crossing in BEC threshold and creation of Bose-Eienstein condensate (BEC) of NaCs molecules at a ultracold temperature of 5 nanoKelvin (= 5 X 10-9 Kelvin). The molecular quantum condensate … | Continue reading
Current antibiotics used in clinical practice, in addition to neutralising target pathogens also harm healthy bacteria in the gut. The disturbance in gut microbiome has toxic effects on liver, kidney and other organs. This is an issue to be addressed. Researchers have discovered … | Continue reading
Tmesipteris oblanceolata , a type of fork fern native to New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific has been found to have the genome size of 160.45 Gigabase pairs (Gbp)/IC (1C = nuclear DNA content in a gametic nucleus). This is about 7% larger than that of Paris japonica (148.89 Gb … | Continue reading
Carrion crows can apply their learning ability and vocal control in combination to form an abstract numerical concept and use it for vocalizations. Basic numerical ability (viz. capacity to understand and apply basic numerical ideas such as counting, adding etc) has been observed … | Continue reading
The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) is world’s most common cockroach pest found in human households worldwide. These insects have an affinity for human dwellings and are not found in natural habitats outdoors. The earliest record of this specie in Europe is about 250 years … | Continue reading
Why largest Pyramids in Egypt are clustered along a narrow strip in the desert? What means were used by the ancient Egyptians to transport such large heavy blocks of stones for construction of pyramids? Experts have argued that perhaps Nile River flew by the pyramids in the ancie … | Continue reading
A study involving measurements by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that the exoplanet 55 Cancri e has a secondary atmosphere outgassed by magma ocean. Instead of vapourised rock, the atmosphere may be rich in CO2 and CO. This is the first instance of detection of second … | Continue reading
At least seven coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the sun have been observed. Its impact arrived on Earth on 10 May 2024 and will continue through 12 May 2024. The activity at sunspot AR3664 was captured by the GOES-16 satellite operated by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini … | Continue reading
Interspecies Blastocyst Complementation (IBC) (i.e., complementation by microinjecting stem cells of other species into blastocyst-stage embryos) successfully generated rat forebrain tissue in mice which was structurally and functionally intact. In a related study, it was also fo … | Continue reading
Spread of pathogens through the air has been described variously by different stakeholders for long. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the terms ‘airborne’, ‘airborne transmission’ and ‘aerosol transmission’ were used differently in different disciplines. It is thought that this may … | Continue reading
Voyager 1, the most distant man-made object in history, has resumed sending signal to the Earth after a gap of five months. On 14 November 2023, It had stopped sending readable science and engineering data to Earth following a glitch in onboard computers even though it was receiv … | Continue reading
An investigation of the rapid monkeypox (MPXV) outbreak that emerged in October 2023 in the Kamituga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has revealed that sexual contact was a key mode of transmission of infection. This is attributed to a distinct MPXV Clade Ib l … | Continue reading
Biosynthesis of proteins and nucleic acid require nitrogen however atmospheric nitrogen is not available to eukaryotes for organic synthesis. Only few prokaryotes (such as cyanobacteria, clostridia, archaea etc) have the ability to fix the molecular nitrogen abundantly available … | Continue reading
British theoretical physicist Professor Peter Higgs, renowned for predicting mass-giving Higgs’s field in 1964 passed away on 8 April 2024 following a short illness. He was 94. It took about half a century before existence of fundamental mass-giving Higgs field could be experimen … | Continue reading
Total solar eclipse will be observed in North America continent on Monday 8th April 2024. Beginning Mexico, it will move across the United States from Texas to Maine, ending in Canada’s Atlantic coast. In the USA, while the partial solar eclipse will be experienced in the entire … | Continue reading
The broad-spectrum fifth-generation cephalosporin antibiotic, Zevtera (Ceftobiprole medocaril sodium Inj.) has been approved by FDA1 for the treatment of three diseases viz. This follows satisfactory phase 3 clinical trials results. Ceftobiprole medocaril is approved in many Euro … | Continue reading
Iseult Project’s 11.7 Tesla MRI machine has taken remarkable anatomical images of the live human brain from participants. This is the first study of live human brain by an MRI machine of such high magnetic field strength that has yielded images of 0.2 mm in-plane resolution and 1 … | Continue reading
Hualien County area of Taiwan has been stuck with a powerful earthquake of magnitude (ML) 7.2 on 03 April 2024 at 07:58:09 hours local time. The epicentre was 23.77°N, 121.67°E 25.0 km SSE of Hualien County Hall at a focal depth of 15.5 km. Many aftershocks of varying intensities … | Continue reading
In order to harness generative AI for public health, WHO has launched SARAH (Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health), a digital health promoter to help people lead a healthier life. Available 24/7 in eight languages via video or text, SARAH provides information to people on distr … | Continue reading
A new global network of laboratories for coronaviruses, CoViNet, has been launched by WHO. The aim behind this initiative is to bring together surveillance programs and reference laboratories to support enhanced epidemiological monitoring and laboratory (phenotypic and genotypic) … | Continue reading
A High-Level Conference on Science Communication ‘Unlocking the Power of Science Communication in Research and Policy Making’, was held in Brussels on 12 and 13 March 2024. The conference was co-organised by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Fund for Scientific Research (F. … | Continue reading
A new image of the “FS Tau star system” taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been released on 25 March 2024. In the new image, jets emerge from the cocoon of a newly forming star to blast across space, slicing through the gas and dust of a shining nebula. The FS Tau star … | Continue reading
The formation of our home galaxy Milky Way began 12 billion years ago. Since then, it has undergone a sequence of mergers with other galaxies and grew in mass and size. The remnants of building blocks (i.e., galaxies that merged with the Miky Way in the past) can be identified th … | Continue reading
It is known that COVID-19 increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, and Long COVID but what was not known is whether the damage occurs because the virus infects the heart tissue itself, or due to systemic inflammation initiated by the body’s immune response to the virus. In a n … | Continue reading
In the last 500 million years, there have been at least five episodes of mass extinctions of life-forms on the Earth when more than three-quarters of the existing species got eliminated. The last such large-scale life extinction occurred due to asteroid impact about 65 million ye … | Continue reading
A team of researchers led by Basem Gehad of Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and Yvona Trnka-Amrhein of University of Colorado has uncovered the upper part of the statue of King Ramses II in the Ashmunin region in Minya Governorate. This part of the statue was missing sinc … | Continue reading
A fossilised forest comprising of fossil trees (known as Calamophyton), and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures has been discovered in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast of Southwest England. This dates from 390 million years ago which makes it the … | Continue reading
Rezdiffra (resmetirom) has been approved by the FDA of the USA for the treatment of adults with noncirrhotic non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with moderate to advanced liver scarring (fibrosis), to be used along with diet and exercise. Until now, patients with noncirrhotic no … | Continue reading
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken near-infrared and mid-infrared images of the star-forming region NGC 604, located nearby in the neighbourhood of home galaxy. The images are most detailed ever and offer unique opportunity to study high concentration of massive, young s … | Continue reading