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‘New drug delivery technique can inject genes into kidneys’

2:37 pm January 1, 2020

Washington: Researchers have developed a novel drug carrying system, and used it to deliver genes directly into the kidneys of mice, an advance that may pave the way for effective gene therapy techniques. The scientists from Mayo Clinic, an American non-profit organisation academic medical centre, studied the effectiveness of delivering three different sized vectors, or […]

Water leaks indicate new damage at Fukushima nuclear plant

Fukushima clean-up reduces radiation levels, but not all

8:29 pm December 12, 2019

Paris: Clean-up efforts at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011, have significantly reduced radiation levels but untreated forested areas remain a problem, scientists said Thursday. The disaster, second only to the massive Chernobyl meltdown in 1986, spewed radioactive material over a huge area, with the Japanese authorities targeting […]

‘Mega fire’ forms north of Sydney

1:55 pm December 6, 2019

Sydney: Several Australian bushfires have combined to form a “mega fire” that is burning out of control across a swathe of land north of Sydney, authorities said Friday, warning they cannot contain the blaze. New South Wales Rural Fire Service deputy commissioner, Rob Rogers said “there are probably more than eight fires in all” that […]

New rodent fossil reveals how middle ear may have evolved: Study

11:40 am November 30, 2019

Beijing: Researchers have unearthed well-preserved middle ear bones from a new species of an extinct rodent that lived 145-66 million years ago in what is now northeastern China, an advance that may lead to better understanding of the evolution of hearing. The study, published in the journal Nature, looked at fossils of the extinct rodent-like […]

Climate change drove early human species to extinction, study says

Humanity’s homeland found in ancient Botswana

11:50 pm October 28, 2019

Paris: Modern humans emerged 200,000 years ago in a region of northern Botswana, scientists claimed Monday, in what appeared to be the most precise location of mankind’s “ancestral homeland” yet discovered. While it has long been known anatomically modern humans – homo sapiens sapiens – originated in Africa, scientists have until now been unable to […]