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Santiago de Cuba gets ready for third phase of vaccine candidate Santiago de Cuba gets ready for third phase of vaccine candidate Santiago de Cuba, Mar 8 (Prensa Latina) This city in eastern Cuba is preparing today for the third phase of clinical trials of the Abdala Covid-19 vaccine candidate, which it will share with Guantanamo, after conducting two previous ones with good results. Awaiting the approval to start that stage by the Center of State Medical Equipment and State Control of Cuba, ...

By Walter Isaacson The coronavirus pandemic forced Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier to accept the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry virtually, instead of actually attending the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ annual December ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, where the king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, would have given each of them an 18-karat gold medal along with a congratulatory handshake. This year’s gala, like so many events everywhere, was canceled for the first tim...

Women extol Cuban scientific achievement in Venezuela Women extol Cuban scientific achievement in Venezuela Caracas, Mar 8 (Prensa Latina) Dr. Yailin Rios praised today the development of Cuban science seen through the application of the medicine Heberprot-P in patients with diabetic foot ulcers in Venezuela. According to Rios, who is a specialist in angiology and vascular surgery, the possibility of benefiting the Venezuelans with one of the flagship medicines of the Cuban biotechnology, the...

An entrepreneur in Ghana is teaching farmers several new techniques to reduce their use of chemical fertilizers. One method is vaccinating seeds using an eco-friendly method to help boost yields.

Salvadoran press highlights Cubas Covid-19 vaccine trials Salvadoran press highlights Cubas Covid-19 vaccine trials San Salvador, Mar 4 (Prensa Latina) Progress in clinical trials for the Cuban Soberana 02 vaccine project against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, was highlighted on Salvadoran CoLatino daily on Thursday. The oldest printed daily in El Salvador reported the authorization of the third phase of clinical trials of this vaccine candidate, developed by the Finlay Inst...

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If proof is needed for under-utilisation, ineffectiveness, irrelevance or even failure of agriculture institutions, the district of Faisalabad provides it. Having four internationally-acclaimed institutions in its precinct for more than a century, its agricultural pattern and productivity are still fossilised and its performance is as good, or as bad, as that of any other bad-performing district in Punjab — including the remotest one like Rajanpur. If taken out of performance context, the n...

  BAHAWALPUR, Feb. 28 (China Economic Net) - Maize-soybean strip intercropping technology, an advanced Chinese agricultural technology created high yield of both crops while not occupying extra land, finished its first-phase sowing on 30-acre land of Pakistan. Once the second phase completes in March, this spring the total area of demonstration plots will reach 100 acres, making a giant leap of about 270.4% in comparison with last season’s area.   “In the last one and half months, we trav...

Uruguayan media highlight Cubas Covid-19 vaccines Uruguayan media highlight Cubas Covid-19 vaccines Montevideo, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) The beginning of Phase III of clinical trials of two Cuban-made Covid-19 vaccine has made headlines in Uruguayan media in the last few days. The three main television news programs broadcast an extensive report from the Havana-based Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB), and remarks by BioCubaFarma Business Group President Eduardo Martinez. Car...

India highlights development of Covid-19 vaccines in Cuba India highlights development of Covid-19 vaccines in Cuba New Delhi, Feb 26 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean that develops its own Covid-19 vaccines, the Indian media reports. The country has four candidate vaccines and two of them, Soberana 02 and Abdala, from the Finlay Vaccine Institute and the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, respectively, will enter the third phase of cli...