Health & Science

Friday, May 10th 2013 - 03:22 UTC
With ‘gene-editing’ scientists have produced a disease resistant piglet

A disease-resistant piglet has been produced using new genetic engineering described as ‘gene-editing’. The piglet was born four months ago at Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, and is known as ‘Pig 26’.
Thursday, May 9th 2013 - 12:26 UTC
Outbreak of mice-vector hemorrhagic fever in Argentina; attacks in rural areas

A 31-yeaar old farm hand died and a 12-year old adolescent has been hospitalized in the province of Santa Fe following an outbreak of Argentine hemorrhagic fever (FHA) caused by the viral agent Junin and transmitted by camp mice.
Wednesday, May 8th 2013 - 09:08 UTC
“Possible submerged continent” found in the Atlantic off the coast of Brazil

A large mass of granite has been found on the seabed off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, suggesting that a continent may have existed in the Atlantic Ocean, a Japanese agency and the Brazilian government announced this week.
Tuesday, May 7th 2013 - 09:11 UTC
Winning design to replace Brazil’s destroyed Antarctic base was presented in Rio

The Brazilian Navy announced in Rio the winning proposal for the new Antarctic research base Comandante Ferraz which in February last year was destroyed by fire with the loss of two lives and damages in excess of 12 million dollars.
Tuesday, May 7th 2013 - 08:54 UTC
Cuban doctors to Brazil hinterland in exchange for infrastructure works

Brazil said Monday it was negotiating with Havana the possibility of hiring and bringing in around 6,000 Cuban doctors to work in areas where they are needed in the fifth largest country of the world and with a population of 200 million.
Monday, April 29th 2013 - 06:20 UTC
The Lancet Oncology says Latam new life-style creating a cancer epidemic

Latin America's growing prosperity is fuelling a cancer epidemic that threatens to overwhelm the region unless governments take urgent preventive action, a study warned.
Saturday, April 27th 2013 - 03:28 UTC
South Georgia ‘area’ will be surveyed by Argentine scientific research vessel

Argentina’s scientific research vessel “Dr. Eduardo L. Holmberg” left on Friday from Mar del Plata for the South Georgia area for a thirty day cruise in the framework of the Convention for the conservation of Antarctic marine living resources, CCAMLR, reports the Foreign Ministry from Buenos Aires.
Friday, April 26th 2013 - 14:39 UTC
Chinese scientists confirm new bird flu strain jumped from chickens to humans

Chinese scientists have confirmed for the first time that a new strain of bird flu that has killed 23 people in China has been transmitted to humans from chickens. In a study published online in the Lancet medical journal, the scientists echoed previous statements from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese officials that there is as yet no evidence of human-to-human transmission of this virus.
Thursday, April 25th 2013 - 21:26 UTC
Uruguay GM lambs which have a luminescence reaction when exposed to UV conditions

Uruguay has a ‘flock’ of nine six-month ‘brilliant’ lambs which behave as any other sheep but are really genetically modified and are planned to help with medicine research. They were born in a farm belonging to the Animal Reproduction Institute of Uruguay (Irauy) a non profit organization connected to the Genetically Modified Animals Unit from the Pasteur Institute, a branch in Montevideo of the renowned French scientific organization.
Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 23:40 UTC
New bird flu strain in China “one of the most lethal” warns WHO

A new bird flu strain that has killed 22 people in China is “one of the most lethal” of its kind and transmits more easily to humans than another strain that has killed hundreds since 2003, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Wednesday.