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The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) have been working with partners including farmers, funders Biovision Foundation Switzerland and the Agriculture for Nutrition and health CGIAR Research Program A4NH, as well as the Kenyan Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, to tackle this challenge.  African leafy vegetables like Amaranth, can contain 200 times more vitamin A and 10 times ...

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UMass MIND awarded drama therapy grant by National Endowment of the Arts UMMS researchers to pilot virtual theater therapy for adults with serious mental illness By Sandra Gray March 04, 2021 The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a research grant to the UMass MIND program to investigate virtual drama therapy for people recovering from serious mental illness. UMass MIND, the community intervention initiative of the Psychotic Disorders Clinical and R...

Under the right conditions, corals can recover from bleaching events. This is the case for multiple reefs in the southern Great Barrier Reef, which avoided wide-spread mortality from the 2020 mass coral bleaching event. These reefs escaped prolonged heat stress and did not have ongoing impacts from crown-of-thorns starfish – giving the corals a chance to bounce back from bleaching. Australian Institute of Marine Science’s (AIMS) monitoring program team leader Dr Mike Emslie said the six ree...

Growing up with feminist parents active in social justice, Dyan Mazurana, a research professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and The Fletcher School, has pondered the intersections of gender, race, age, ability, disability, and sexuality for most of her life. Since her early days as an undergraduate through to her time now as a Tufts professor, she has focused on understanding, preventing and responding to violence against women and children. The coronavirus has pushed ...

Survale Returns As a Global Underwriter of 2021 Talent Board Candidate Experience Awards Benchmark Research Program Candidate Experience Awards Recognizes Organizations That Deliver Exceptional Candidate Experience News provided by Share this article SAN FRANCISCO, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  Talent Board, a non-profit organization focused on the elevation and promotion of a quality candidate experience through its annual recruiting and hiring industry benchmark research, today announced th...

Researchers find largest ever group of people who have controlled HIV without drugs Discovery of more than 400 elite controllers in Democratic Republic of Congo may hold promise of unlocking a cure for the disease A cure for HIV has so far eluded researchers Credit: Ajay Verma/Reuters A large group of people who have managed to control HIV without the need for drugs has been discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, leading to hopes of eventually finding a cure, scientists have said. Whi...

AI can help reduce risk of HIV in high-risk communities How to get good information to the people who need it is a question that has long plagued public health officials. One approach, known as peer change agents, is to recruit peer leaders to promote healthy behaviors and information about disease prevention within their social networks. This strategy has been used, with mixed results, in communities at high risk for HIV infection and transmission, specifically among young people experiencing ...

 E-Mail SILVER SPRING, Md. - A recent preclinical study by U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) researchers showed that an experimental therapy combining a TLR7 agonist and two broadly neutralizing antibodies delayed viral rebound in SHIV-infected macaques after antiretroviral therapy (ART) interruption. The experimental combination therapy consisted of TLR7 agonist GS-986 and two broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs), N6-LS and PGT121, targeting different regions of the HIV envelope. T...

Eating Disorders Awareness Week: A Crisis in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa Walter H. Kaye, MD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine. At some point in their lives, nearly 28.8 million Americans will have an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa, the most lethal of psychiatric disorders after opioid overdose. Anorexia nervosa frequently requires prolonged hospitalization for weight restoration and medical stabilization. Altogether, treating eating disor...