Lead author Dr Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, from UCL, said: “Our findings suggest that reopening schools on March 8, while keeping the rest of society locked down, is a plausible alternative to continued full national lockdown and is likely to prevent the epidemic from growing again. Source link
Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have developed energy-efficient pest controlling devices for smaller agricultural tracts owned by marginal farmers. The research team has developed a self-propelled boom-type sprayer that can be operated using solar energy while safely guided through the crops in smaller tracts of land, the leading engineering institute said in … Read more
NEW DELHI: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, are working on rapid identification of Covid-19 biomarkers in blood plasma using Raman spectroscopy and artificial intelligence. Raman Spectroscopy is a non-destructive chemical analysis technique which provides detailed information about chemical structure, phase and polymorphy, crystallinity and molecular interactions. It is based upon the … Read more
There have also been concerns about the effect the pandemic could have had on cancer more widely. The NHS’s former cancer director Prof Sir Mike Richards has said England could see its first decrease in survival rates for decades. In England, 60% fewer patients with suspected cancer were seen in April, compared to the previous … Read more
Mosquitoes are troublesome. A mosquito bite is capable of causing pain and irritation and even causes diseases like dengue, malaria and yellow fever. But what attracts mosquitoes to human blood in the first place? A study reveals that they are not attracted to “simple flavours like sweet or salty, but only a complex combination of … Read more
A free game developed by Oxford University researchers was launched today that will allow players to understand how vaccines work on a global scale. In the game, the players have to deploy limited doses of the vaccine virtually to control a viral pandemic created by a disease modelled on influenza. ‘The Vaccination Game’ was developed … Read more
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 (Kaiser News) — Reopening colleges drove a coronavirus surge of about 3,000 new cases a day in the United States, according to a draft study released Tuesday. The study, done jointly by researchers at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Indiana University, the University of Washington … Read more
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Aug. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Although minorities are paying a disproportionate price in the rate of COVID-19 illnesses and deaths, they are underrepresented in clinical trials, a new study finds. The researchers call upon the government, medical journals and funders of research to make sure trials include minorities … Read more
NEW DELHI: Researchers at IIT Kharagpur have developed a new low-cost, portable device that can test for Covid-19 and give results in an hour. The researchers say that based on tests with around 500 synthetic samples of the coronavirus, the new technology is as accurate as the RT-PCR test, which is considered the gold standard … Read more