News articles tagged with 'Africa'
Are sterile mosquitoes the answer to malaria elimination?
— 17 Nov 2009 11:29 | HealthThe Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), the release of sexually sterile male insects to wipe out a pest population, is one suggested solution to the problem of malaria in Africa. A new... — full story
Study uses satellite imagery to identify active magma systems in East Africa's Rift Valley
— 5 Nov 2009 13:39 | Geology and palaeontologyA team from the University of Miami, University of El Paso and University of Rochester have employed Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images compiled over a decade to... — full story
Scientists discover largest orb-weaving spider
— 21 Oct 2009 11:29 | BiologyResearchers from the United States and Slovenia have discovered a new, giant Nephila species (golden orb weaver spider) from Africa and Madagascar and have published their findings... — full story
2-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments
— 21 Oct 2009 10:50 | Geology and palaeontologyIn an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on 21 October, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard Potts of... — full story
Bushmeat consumption soars as forest cover declines
— 20 Oct 2009 09:29 | EnvironmentNew analytical techniques have revealed that the scale of bushmeat trade in Central Africa may be much larger than originally thought, according to a study published today by TRAFFIC,... — full story
East African cichlid fish offer new understanding of genetic basis of sex determination
— 2 Oct 2009 13:28 | BiologyBiologists have genetically mapped the sex chromosomes of several species of cichlid fish from Lake Malawi, East Africa, and identified a mechanism by which new sex chromosomes may... — full story
Scientists join forces to explain HIV spread in Central and East Africa
— 30 Sep 2009 17:00 | HealthScientists studying biology and geography may seem worlds apart, but together they have answered a question that has defied explanation about the spread of the HIV-1 epidemic in Africa... — full story
Weighing costs, benefits of HIV treatments
— 16 Sep 2009 11:49 | HealthPrevention versus treatment? Cost versus efficacy? So go two of the dilemmas looming over Dartmouth's Paul E. Palumbo and his fellow researchers in the race to fight HIV and other infectious... — full story
Genome sequencing reveals genetic diversity of the bacteria that cause Buruli ulcer
— 11 Sep 2009 12:24 | HealthA new study lays the groundwork for development of a cost-effective tool for studying the population structure and spread of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer.... — full story
Sickle cell study boosts call for improved childhood immunisation programs in Africa
— 10 Sep 2009 11:16 | HealthChildren in Africa with sickle cell anaemia are dying unnecessarily from bacterial infections, suggests the largest study of its kind, funded by the Wellcome Trust. The results are... — full story