Researchers across 13 European and African research institutes will work together to integrate data from climate modelling and disease forecasting systems to predict the likelihood of an epidemic up to six months in advance. The research, funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework programme, will focus on climate [...]
Over 250 African and international health researchers, policymakers and three Ministers of Health (Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda) from 28 countries are meeting today in Nairobi at the 2nd international Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) stakeholder conference organised to stimulate greater regional research partnership to fight the most neglected diseases such as sleeping sickness, kala [...]
New biotechnologies that allow scientists to quickly and accurately distinguish species based on a simple DNA analysis are being creatively deployed for the first time in the war against a major global disease.
The University of Ghana, supported by the Philadelphia-based JRS Biodiversity Foundation, is pioneering the use of DNA “barcodes” to map menacing mosquito [...]
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