WASHINGTON — There’s a new final frontier in the world of antibodies: the immobilization of sperm before it can reach an egg. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have engineered ultra-potent antibodies that—during animal testing—effectively trapped and blocked more than 99.9 percent of human sperm. Monoclonal antibodies are known for fighting off invading […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Canine cognitive dysfunction mirrors important developments in the course of human dementia, which makes companion dogs a useful and suitable animal model for aging study. Recently when researchers measured an Alzheimer’s disease-associated peptide (Ab42) in companion dog brains, they found that higher abundance is associated with increased cognitive decline, according to the findings […]

STOCKHOLM — Suppose 75 and 76-year-olds are screened for a kind of arrhythmia linked to a five times greater chance of stroke. In that case, it could reduce the risks of severe bleeding, death, and stroke itself, as per the findings of a study at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The study was published in the weekly […]

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan police in Kianjokoma, Embu town, 120 kilometers [74.5 miles] northeast of the capital Nairobi, arrested two brothers Benson Njiru Ndwiga, 22, and Emmanuel, 19, for violating the 10 p.m. curfew hour on Aug. 1. They were never seen alive after that. The bodies of the brothers, who had just opened a butchery […]

Leaded gasoline, long associated with harming the environment and human health, is at the end of the road. The United Nations announced on Monday that Algeria, which was the last country in the world to allow the sale of the leaded fuel for vehicles, stopped doing so in July. “The successful enforcement of the leaded […]

NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court of India, the country’s apex court, on Aug. 26 stressed the need to support the children who have lost their parents during the Covid-19 pandemic and said education of such minors should continue without any disruption in the current academic year. A Bench of Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Justice Aniruddha […]

PORTO ALEGRE, Brasil — El avance acelerado de la variante Delta (B.1 617.2) del coronavirus en la ciudad de Río de Janeiro, en la región sureste de Brasil, ya es responsable del 56.6 por ciento de los casos de la enfermedad en la ciudad, dice el secretario municipal de Salud Daniel Soranz. “Estamos viendo un aumento […]

KATHMANDU, Nepal — To support Nepal, on Aug. 26, India gifted a medical oxygen plant to the Himalayan nation to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. As per the Indian embassy in Nepal, the medical oxygen plant has been installed at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences is designed to provide 5 Liters Per Minute per person, amounting to a […]

WASHINGTON — Research led by Ohio State University suggests that feeling like leisure is wasteful and unproductive may lead to less happiness and higher levels of stress and depression. The study “Viewing leisure as wasteful undermines enjoyment” is published in “the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.” In a series of studies, researchers examined the effects of a common […]

GENEVA — The International Air Transport Association has commended the European Commission for its leadership and speed in delivering the European Union Digital Covid-19 Certificate (DCC) and urged states to make it their global standard for digital vaccine certificates. The International Air Transport Association is a trade association of the world’s airlines founded in 1945. It has been described as […]

BRUSSELS — A new study has identified a dose-response relationship between the concentration of everyday pollutants and the incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The study is presented at ESC Congress 2021. “We studied seven common pollutants and found that as the concentration of each rose, the risk of cardiac arrest increased,” said study author Francesca R. Gentile […]

BEIJING — Refuting results of a US report tracing the origins of the Covid-19 virus, Beijing has lodged solemn representations with Washington terming the report as “completely political, and having no scientificity and credibility.” “China has lodged solemn representations with the US over a so-called virus origins tracing report by the US intelligence community,” said Chinese Vice Foreign […]

HAMILTON, Ontario — An increased calorie intake or eating in larger quantities are the probable answers when considering the cause of obesity. However, research has found that it may also come down to whether one buys indigenously or locally grown food or picks imported vegetables at the store so long as the latter has been […]

A 73-year-old Russian man proves you can wow people at any age. Known only as Igor on social media, he is seen on video demonstrating his skiing-style skateboarding. After 40 years of honing his ability, Igor, of Saint Petersburg, cruises along in serpentine fashion on an empty street. His video, posted on Instagram in early […]

Two groups are much more likely to have their kidney transplants fail sooner than their white counterparts: black recipients and recipients who received kidneys from Asian donors, according to new research presented at the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) Congress 2021. The study of 20,304 kidneys transplanted between 2001 and 2015 from the U.K. […]