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Various technologies of manipulation and modification of insects, including genetic modification, have been attracting a lot of debate in recent years,

<p style="text-align:justify">Seaports act as hubs for the global spread of MtrBTN2, a rare contagious cancer affecting mussels. In this disease, cancer cells can be transmitted, like parasites, from one mussel to another nearby. While, in nature, such contagion mainly occurs between mussels in the same bed, ports and maritime transport facilitate the spread of MtrBTN2 to other locations, through biofouling, whereby diseased mussels attach themselves to ship hulls. This ...

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Scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder found links between height, weight, medical conditions and personality traits in British couples.

Giving young children the world's first malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01E alongside antimalarial drugs before the rainy season has led to a significant reduction in life-threatening malaria cases and deaths for over five years, according to a landmark study.

Giving young children the world’s first malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01E alongside antimalarial drugs before the rainy season has led to a significant reduction in life-threatening malaria cases and deaths for over five years, according to a landmark study. 

The final results of a landmark study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases confirm that the benefits of combining the RTS,S/AS01E (RTS,S) malaria vaccine with antimalarial drugs in settings of highly seasonal malaria transmission continue over five years. The vaccine-drug combination reduced clinical malaria episodes, including cases of severe malaria, and deaths from malaria in young children by nearly two-thirds compared with either RTS,S vaccination or seasonal malaria chemoprevention ...

We tend to see people who look like us as more attractive because we perceive them as more kind and trustworthy, report University of Queensland experts.

The mass extinction event resulted from the impact of a giant space rock that smashed into the Earth around 66 million years ago.

Twin births aren't exactly common. In humans, they occur in one to three per cent of all births.