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Does biobanking hold the key to achieving universal health?
Oct 1, 2021 · The data generated through biosamples is a key resource for the digital transformation of health systems, he suggested. World revenue for biobanking will surpass $53 billion in 2027, according to Zatloukal, who underlined one of the key challenges facing biobanking: the drug industry is required to provide funding, yet patients remain reluctant to make their samples available to drug companies.
Research reveals Pacific Ocean threats and solutions - SciDev.Net
May 27, 2009 · The study divided the Pacific Ocean into seven regions, revealing threats and potential solutions for each. Widely applicable solutions include capacity building in ocean management, efforts to adapt to climate change and reduce overfishing, and using information technologies to monitor and share information, says Noah Idechong, a COS ...
Crowdfunding venture gives farmers access to funds
Mar 30, 2016 · Only about 20,000 farmers of the 11 million agri-fishery workers access the agricultural credit from the various government credit programs annually. They have almost no access to government credit because this loan goes through the banking sector and farmers do not have the knowledge and trust in the banking system," Halos tells SciDev.Net.
Japan’s high-tech approach to tsunami detection - scidev.net
Dec 29, 2004 · Japan spends US$20 million a year on a system of 300 earthquake sensors relaying real-time information by satellite to centres that coordinate evacuation warnings and other responses to imminent tsunamis. Japanese technology developed in the past 12 months allows the size, speed, and direction of a tsunami to be calculated and transmitted in ...
How do I write a scientific paper? - SciDev.Net
Jul 2, 2013 · Tips on how to present the results of a study, and give it the best chance of publication. Adapted with permission from a text developed by the Applied Ecology Research Group at the University of Canberra Australia, and prepared with the aid of 'How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper' by Robert Day (ISI Press, Philadelphia, 1979). A scientific paper is a written report describing original ...
Integrating modern and traditional medicine: Facts and figures
May 27, 2010 · Mushrooms are used to treat a wide range of illnesses in traditional medicine in China, Japan, Eastern Europe and Russia. Opiates. Analgesic. Unripe poppy seeds. Traditional Arab, Chinese, European, Indian and North African medicines as pain relief and to treat range of illnesses including diarrhoea, coughs and asthma. Quinine.
Fog catchers dream big to boost water security
Aug 21, 2014 · Fog catchers, fine mesh nets erected on foggy hillsides, capture tiny droplets of water from fog that later, when enough droplets have been caught, drip down into gutters. This fresh water can be stored in tanks. Fog catching has been used in Chile for human consumption and watering for more than 50 years, mostly at altitudes of 600 to 1,200 ...
Traditional medicine for modern times: Facts and figures
Jun 26, 2015 · Box 1: Artemisinin: traditional medicine’s blockbluster drug Artemisinin, which is extracted from Artemisia annua (Chinese sweet wormwood), is the basis for the most effective malaria drugs in the world.. Long-used in China, the medicine was first noticed by Western researchers in the 1980s. But its worldwide use wasn’t endorsed by the WHO until 2004, largely because of scepticism ...
Q&A: ‘I emigrated when my lab was turned into barracks’
Jan 21, 2019 · In 2014, my old supervisor in the United States also offered to fund my research, but then withdrew for the same reasons. Then, things got worse, and just going to the faculty of agriculture meant risking my life — it had been converted to military barracks. We witnessed a shortage of essentials like water and electricity, animals died ...