What is the plan to give polio vaccines to children in Gaza?
Getty Images A series of “humanitarian pauses” to fighting in Gaza are due to begin on Sunday, to allow hundreds of thousands of children to be vaccinated against polio. The agreement comes after UN officials said a 10-month-old has been partially paralysed after contracting Gaza’s first recorded case of polio in 25 years. What is polio and […]
The midwives who stopped murdering girls and started saving them
Amitabh Parashar BBC Eye Investigations Midwife Siro Devi is clinging to Monica Thatte, sobbing. Monica, in her late 20s, has returned to her birthplace – the Indian town where Siro has delivered hundreds of babies. But this is no straightforward reunion. There is a painful history behind Siro’s tears. Shortly before Monica was born, Siro […]
The children bearing the brunt of the mpox outbreak
All of Nzigire Kanigo’s children have contracted mpox, including two-year-old Ansima Children in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are worst-affected by the current outbreak of mpox, which has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization. The country accounts for nearly all of this year’s recorded […]
Elevate efficiency with the DS-8X eight channel spectrophotometer
he DeNovix DS-8X Eight Channel Spectrophotometer takes high-throughput, microvolume spectrophotometry to a new level of performance. This easy-to-use, stand-alone device delivers fast, full spectrum UV-Vis analysis, making it ideal for rapid nucleic acid and protein quantification. Benefits Rapid Multichannel UV-Vis Quantification: Analyze 8 Samples in ~10 Seconds. GxP Compliance Ready: Optional 21 CFR Part 11 […]
When a unknown printer scrambled gallery
Study reveals links between bodily rhythms and visual perception A study funded by the SNSF highlights previously unknown links between the body and the brain. The findings of this research carried out at the University of Fribourg show how our bodily rhythms affect our visual perception. Taking a deep breath to get a clearer picture […]