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[ad_1] Paris (AFP) While many scientists scramble to find vaccines to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, other researchers are digging into the past, trying to unravel one of the virus’s biggest mysteries: exactly where it came from. The World Health Organization has assembled an international team of 10 …

[ad_1] President Donald trump issued its final World AIDS Day proclamation without mentioning LGBTQ people. (Public domain photo) President Trump, in his final World AIDS Day proclamation on Monday night, acknowledged the “untold suffering of millions of people both here at home and abroad” as a result of the HIV …

[ad_1] Two examples of protein targets in the free modeling category show AlphaFold’s prediction compared to the shape of proteins determined by experimental results. AlphaFold predictions are in blue and experimental results are in green. DeepMind screenshot. DeepMind, the Google subsidiary that has been beating chess and Go players with …

[ad_1] A long-standing and incredibly complex scientific problem related to the structure and behavior of proteins has been effectively solved by a new artificial intelligence (AI) system, the scientists report. DeepMind, the UK-based artificial intelligence company, has wowed us for years with its parade of ever-advancing neural networks continually beating …

[ad_1] Scientists said Monday they had developed a way to predict whether patients will develop Alzheimer’s disease by testing their blood, in what experts hailed as a possible “game changer” in the fight against the debilitating disease. About 50 million people live with Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disease that accounts …

[ad_1] Medical syringes. getty Everyone is fed up with the confinement. In recent months, you’ve probably asked yourself this question: “Why is it taking so long to get a Covid vaccine?” The answer is more complicated than you think. In fact, vaccine candidates are developing much faster than many scientists …

[ad_1] But COVID-19 outages in health services threaten progress. PAHO and UNAIDS launch campaign to promote HIV self-testing Washington DC, November 30 (PAHO) – Annual deaths from AIDS-related diseases decreased by 37% between 2010 and 2019 in Caribbean countries, while annual new infections with the HIV virus decreased by 29% …

[ad_1] The timely development of preventive vaccines and new therapeutic drugs will be crucial in managing the burden caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. While there are currently no approved vaccines for COVID-19, global vaccine production is estimated to reach 8 billion doses by 2021, assuming the best …

[ad_1] Ethiopians who fled the Tigray region for Sudan are torn between a bleak future in refugee camps and returning to nearly a month’s conflict in their homeland. More than 45,000 people have fled northern Ethiopia since November 4, after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered military operations against leaders of …

[ad_1] This year’s World AIDS Day theme of ‘global solidarity, shared responsibility’ reminds us of the impact of pandemics on our lives and how we must unite to prevail. Both HIV and COVID-19 are exposing and exacerbating inequalities. They show us once again that good health is about much more …