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As Earth overheats, scientists test way to repel Sun's raysBrightening clouds is one of several ideas to push solar energy back into space -- sometimes called solar radiation modification, solar geo...
HIV treatment: Can cancer medicine cure HIV patients? Here's what researchers, doctors have foundScientists at a Melbourne research institute in Australia have found that a medicine used to treat blood cancer can kill HIV cells. Know in...
How COVID health advice and modelling has been opaque, slow to change and politicised in AustraliaThe key to building public trust in modelling is full transparency. But in Australia, these briefs and processes are often shrouded and opa...
India urges Australia to address students' difficulties due to travel restrictions"I specifically took up with Minister Payne the problems faced by Indian students in Australia and those wishing to go to Australia as well...
Pfizer vaccinations for 16 to 39-year-olds is welcome news. But AstraZeneca remains a good optionImportantly, given what we know about the high rates of COVID infections in younger people, and the significant role they're playing in tra...
Can we 'live' with Covid-19? Not until majority of the population is vaccinatedGetting vaccines into people is the priority and the faster we do this, the faster we move towards the final phase of the pandemic.
Covid-19: When will we reach herd immunity? Here are 3 reasons that's a hard question to answerDifferent diseases have different thresholds for herd immunity. For measles, for example, the herd immunity threshold is 92%-94%. Estimates...
Covid origins mirror SARS’s genesis in animals, study findsThe paper was released Wednesday ahead of peer review, and is being prepared for submission to a journal for publication, one of the author...
The last and only foreign scientist in Wuhan Lab speaks outHalf-truths and distorted information have obscured an accurate accounting of the lab's functions and activities, which were more routine t...
Study finds new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacyThe early immune response in a person who has been vaccinated for coronavirus can predict the level of protection they will have to the vir...
World's first patient cured of HIV, Ray Brown, passes away after cancer returnsBrown became known as the 'Berlin Patient' after his HIV was eradicated by treatment there in 2007.
Safety, efficacy main concerns with Russia's COVID-19 vaccine: Nobel laureate Peter DohertySputnik V has been developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology along with the Russian Direct Investment F...
Nobel laureate concerned about lockdown relaxations, says COVID vaccine not for 9-12 monthsThe Australian immunologist, who cautioned that the number of COVID-19 cases will rise in the coming days, said the earliest time frame for...
How many people will COVID-19 kill? With over 160 cases in India, figures quickly get scaryModels predicting COVID-19 cases are still operating on several preliminary assumptions, including its mortality and transmissibility.
- Link between popular drugs, immune system failure discovered
Sydney, Feb 7 (IANS) Australian researchers are a step closer to understanding immune complications caused by commonly prescribed medicatio...
New way to prevent dengue fever foundDengue is a viral infection spread between humans by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Dengue causes flu-like symptoms, including intense headaches...
Oceans warming up 15 times faster than in past 10,000 years: StudyNew research has found that the middle depths of the Pacific Ocean have warmed 15 times faster in the last 60 years than they did during ap...