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The National Emergency Management Organisation is advising the public that the La Soufriere volcano  is NOT erupting. According to Professor Richard Robertson, Lead Scientist from the Seismic Research  Centre, University of the West Indies, the La Soufriere Volcano is not erupting and there is no increased  activity at the volcano.  The heavy steaming that is coming from the volcano is as a result of the heavy rainfall interacting with  the …

Defence Therapeutics Inc.: Defence Therapeutics Signs an Agreement with Biopharma Excellence, a Pharmalex GmbH Company, to Maximize and Strategize the Development of Its Accum Platform and Clinical Trials Defence" or the " Company"), a biotechnology company working on cancer therapeutics and infectious disease vaccines is pleased to announce the agreement with the German renowned pharmaceutical consulting and advisory company, Pharmalex GmbH, through Biopharma Excellence. With more than 35,000...

Soufrière monitoring team gets new leader Dr. Eurocilla Joseph is the first female to head the SRC-UWI in country La Soufrière Monitoring Team. By: Gloriah• Instrumentation Engineer Lloyd Lynch left the shores of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Wednesday, 14th July, after conducting yeoman service installing, repairing and drawing date from the monitoring system set up to keep daily watch on the eruptions of the La Soufrière, which began on April 9 and ceased on April 22, 2021. Replac...

SwabSeq platform offers a potential solution for massive COVID-19 testing In an article appearing in Nature Biomedical Engineering, a team of scientists from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA School of Engineering report real-world results on SwabSeq, a high-throughput testing platform that uses sequencing to test thousands of samples at a time to detect COVID-19. They were able to perform more than 80,000 tests in less than two months, with the test showing extremely high sensi...

Such a lovely place, were looking forward to seeing more that later. lets take a look at some of todays front pages. many, of course, lead with the news that the current covid restrictions in england are set to be extended beyond the 21st ofjune. the daily mail says the re—opening date will be pushed back until the 19th ofjuly, to the fury of business leaders and conservative mps. the guardian reports the latest modelling of the now dominant delta covid variant. it suggests that, even with the...

Image: Illustration by Burnet PhD Student, Thorey Jonsdottir On Medical Research Week, we celebrate all researchers, students and the support...

A recent study has shown that maize, sukuma wiki, and tomatoes grown in Kenya have been grown using Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs).

British scientists will play a leading role in a new mission to study the geology and atmosphere of Venus, our neighbouring planet, helping determine whether it was once habitable – and why Earth became the only known planet that can sustain life.

Registration open for International Latex Conference Registration open for International Latex Conference Rubber & Plastics News Staff Print CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio—Latex innovations, sustainability issues and supply chain disruptions will be among the topics discussed at the 2021 International Latex Conference, which will be held virtually July 20-22. The event, which is presented by Rubber & Plastics News, will feature nine hour-long presentations: "Innovations and Sustainability in Natural R...

As the world marks Africa Day, the University celebrates its existing partnerships across the continent and looks forward to further collaboration as a key strategic aim for the future.