Tag: Africa
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Agriculture Group Adapts Satellite Imaging, A.I., Big Data
An international agricultural network is partnering with a private company to boost the group’s capabilities in satellite imaging, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence.
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Single Technology Produces Vaccines for Multiple Infectious Diseases
A single technology platform is being used to design and produce vaccines that in tests with lab animals protect against a number of infectious diseases.
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Drug Shown Able to Kill Malaria-Carrier Mosquitoes
A clinical trial in Kenya shows blood from people who take a current anti-parasite drug can kill mosquitoes carrying malaria, offering a potential new strategy for controlling this disease.
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Plant-Based Drug Shown to Cure Drug-Resistant Malaria
An experimental drug made from dried Artemisia annua plant leaves cured patients in Africa with malaria infections that became resistant to current drugs.
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Biotech Companies to Discover Ebola, Zika Vaccines
Two biotechnology companies are collaborating to discover new vaccines protecting against Ebola and Zika viruses that present global threats to public health.
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Pharma Firms Start Non-Communicable Disease Initiative
A group of 22 pharmaceutical companies is supporting worldwide projects to improve access to prevention and treatments for chronic disorders like cancer and heart disease, in lower-resource regions.
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Sleeping Sickness Treatment Found in Cancer Drug
An experimental drug designed to treat solid tumor cancers was shown in lab tests to rid mice of human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness.
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$1 Million Challenge Seeks Child Health Solutions
A new challenge seeks technologies and solutions to reduce child mortality and improve the health of children in low-resource regions of the world.
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Start-Up Licenses Genetics Technology for HIV Diagnostics
19 May 2016. A spin-off company from Harvard University is licensing genetics research to develop more powerful tools to detect drug-resistant strains of HIV. Financial details of the agreement between the 2 year-old Aldatu Biosciences Inc. and Harvard were not disclosed. Aldatu Biosciences is the creation of pathologist Iain MacLeod and geneticist David Raiser that…
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Tropical Disease Diagnostics Now on Market
12 April 2016. PATH research institute and medical test developer Standard Diagnostics are making available tests for the tropical diseases onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. The rapid, point-of-care tests are designed to help health authorities in Africa and other regions better monitor the spread of the diseases in campaigns to eradicate their occurrence. Onchocerciasis is an…