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Medical Xpress / Singapore group will develop 'most promising' Ebola vaccine

A Singapore-based organization announced Thursday it will develop an Ebola vaccine dubbed the "most promising" to fight against a deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

16 hours ago
Phys.org / In wine country, barn owls offer eco-friendly alternative for rodent control

With summer comes the warmth and sunshine that wine grapes need to thrive. It also comes with more vineyard-destroying rodents. To keep vermin at bay while reducing the need for harmful pesticides, California vineyards have ...

19 hours ago
Phys.org / Mapping endangered habitats with the help of citizen scientists and satellite data

As biodiversity declines and many of the UK's most important habitats become smaller and more fragmented, conservation organizations need accurate, up-to-date maps to protect wildlife and restore nature. However, creating ...

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Three clinical grade skincare creams you really shouldn't buy online

Your social media feed is full of people talking about the "holy grail" of skincare.

18 hours ago
Medical Xpress / New strategy for controlling hypertension: Should boosting potassium be part of efforts to control high blood pressure?

High blood pressure can be better controlled with a strategy that combines boosting potassium intake with reducing sodium, according to a new report. High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects more than 1.28 billion adults ...

18 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Why the AI industry is so fond of the prefix 'co'—by an expert in linguistics

AI companies and evangelists frequently use terms such as copilot, coworker, cocreator and co-scientist to imply these rapidly developing systems can happily coexist with us humans. Their inference is clear: People should ...

16 hours ago
Medical Xpress / NPTN gene changes linked to rare developmental disorders in eight children

For some families, the reason their child is not developing as expected remains unclear for a long time. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) in Magdeburg have now identified a genetic cause of a previously ...

16 hours ago
Tech Xplore / 'Vibe coding' is fun and easy, but there's a major catch

Imagine you've always wanted your own app. Perhaps one that tracks your household budget, organizes the family shopping list or reminds you when to water your plants.

19 hours ago
Medical Xpress / CAR T-cell treatment may enable healthy pregnancies without immunosuppressive drugs

Autoimmune diseases primarily affect young women and interfere with their plans to start a family. Pregnancy in women with autoimmune diseases carries greater risks for several reasons.

15 hours ago
Tech Xplore / How an OpenAI safety test became a real‑world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform

OpenAI's AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face—a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI ...

17 hours ago
Medical Xpress / New study questions root cause of common dental defect in children

A major study has ruled out inflammation as the cause of a developmental condition affecting children's teeth while also revealing how common the condition is.

16 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Congo says the death toll in fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has passed 1,500

Ebola has killed more than 1,500 people in eastern Congo in the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease, data released Thursday showed, marking a 50% increase in around a week as the emergency continues to outpace response ...

17 hours ago