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Newswise: Historic graffiti made by soldiers sheds light on Africa maritime heritage, study shows
Released: 6-May-2022 4:55 PM EDT
Historic graffiti made by soldiers sheds light on Africa maritime heritage, study shows
University of Exeter

Historic graffiti of ships carved in an African fort were drawn by soldiers on guard duty watching the sea, University of Exeter experts believe.

Newswise: Discovery Provides Insight Into Neglected Tropical Disease
Released: 5-Apr-2022 1:15 PM EDT
Discovery Provides Insight Into Neglected Tropical Disease
UT Southwestern Medical Center

UTSW scientists identify key molecule produced by male parasitic worms that affects sexual maturity in females and leads to schistosomiasis

Released: 5-Apr-2022 4:05 AM EDT
Company Tax Dodging Has Devastating Effect on Developing World
University of Portsmouth

Billion-pound tax dodging companies behave like ‘parasites’, robbing from the poor on a grand scale, according to new research.

Newswise: Who you know can make or break employment opportunities for African migrants
Released: 30-Mar-2022 9:05 PM EDT
Who you know can make or break employment opportunities for African migrants
University of South Australia

Racial hierarchies and a lack of the ‘right sort’ of social connections are hindering African-born migrants from securing meaningful employment in South Australia, according to new research by the University of South Australia.

Newswise: CSUDH History Professor Wins Prestigious NEH Award
Released: 15-Mar-2022 6:05 PM EDT
CSUDH History Professor Wins Prestigious NEH Award
California State University, Dominguez Hills

The fellowship is for CSUDH Professor of History Bianca Murillo's next book, Financing Africa’s Future: A Socio-Economic History of Ghana, 1950-1980.

Newswise: The next frontier for African genomics - safeguarding African biodiversity
Released: 15-Mar-2022 11:40 AM EDT
The next frontier for African genomics - safeguarding African biodiversity
University of South Africa

The African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) published a position paper in the journal Nature highlighting the goals, priorities, and roadmap of the impressive Africa-led effort to sequence the genomes of plants, animals, fungi, and protists that are endemic to the continent of Africa.

Released: 9-Mar-2022 12:20 PM EST
Heatwave hotspots linked to urban agglomerations in Africa
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Due to global warming, heatwave events will likely cause severe damage to natural ecosystems and human society.

Newswise: New Genetic Analysis of Ancient Africans Creates a Clearer Picture of Life 50,000 Years Ago
18-Feb-2022 10:35 AM EST
New Genetic Analysis of Ancient Africans Creates a Clearer Picture of Life 50,000 Years Ago
Stony Brook University

Ancient DNA from the remains of nearly three dozen African foragers sheds new light on how groups across sub-Saharan Africa lived, traveled and settled prior to the spread of herding and farming. The study findings, to be published in Nature, produced the earliest DNA of humans on the continent.

Newswise: Multi-Country African Research Reports High Rates of COVID-19-Related Deaths Among Hospitalized Children and Adolescents
Released: 15-Feb-2022 11:55 AM EST
Multi-Country African Research Reports High Rates of COVID-19-Related Deaths Among Hospitalized Children and Adolescents
University of Maryland School of Medicine

African children and adolescents hospitalized with COVID-19 experience much higher mortality rates than Europeans or North Americans, according to a study conducted by the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria.

Newswise: DNA testing exposes tactics of international criminal networks trafficking elephant ivory
11-Feb-2022 11:00 AM EST
DNA testing exposes tactics of international criminal networks trafficking elephant ivory
University of Washington

University of Washington scientists and U.S. officials used genetic testing of ivory shipments seized by law enforcement to uncover the international criminal networks behind ivory trafficking out of Africa, exposing an even higher degree of connection among smugglers than previously known.

Released: 10-Feb-2022 4:15 PM EST
WHO efforts to bring vaccine manufacturing to Africa is being undermined by pharma, reveals The BMJ
BMJ

The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting African companies to make a covid vaccine. But today, in an article co-published with German newspaper Die Welt, The BMJ can reveal that a foundation representing vaccine maker BioNtech has been accused of seeking to undermine this initiative.

Newswise: Ebola Vaccine Being Used in Congo Produces Lasting Antibody Response, Study Finds
Released: 8-Feb-2022 5:10 PM EST
Ebola Vaccine Being Used in Congo Produces Lasting Antibody Response, Study Finds
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

A new study by UCLA researchers and colleagues demonstrates that the Ebola vaccine known as rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP results in a robust and enduring antibody response among vaccinated individuals in areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that are experiencing outbreaks of the disease. Among the more than 600 study participants, 95.6% demonstrated antibody persistence six months after they received the vaccine. The study is the first published research examining post–Ebola-vaccination antibody response in the DRC, a nation of nearly 90 million. While long-term analyses of the study cohort continue, the findings will help inform health officials’ approach to vaccine use for outbreak control, the researchers said.

Released: 8-Feb-2022 9:00 AM EST
Global Virus Network (GVN) Adds the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) as Newest Member to Combat Viral Threats
Global Virus Network

Baltimore, Maryland, USA, February 8, 2021: The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing 68 Centers of Excellence and 10 Affiliates in 36 countries comprising foremost experts in every class of virus causing disease in humans, and the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) in Durban announced the addition of CAPRISA as GVN’s newest Center of Excellence.

Newswise: Machine Learning Uncovers Violence During Apartheid, Earns Top Honor from Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for University of Kentucky Researchers
Released: 7-Feb-2022 10:30 AM EST
Machine Learning Uncovers Violence During Apartheid, Earns Top Honor from Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for University of Kentucky Researchers
University of Kentucky

The $45,000 award will support the Bitter Aloe Project, which uses machine learning models to extract data from records produced by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Newswise: Prehistoric human vertebra discovered in the Jordan Valley tells the story of prehistoric migration from Africa
Released: 2-Feb-2022 4:50 PM EST
Prehistoric human vertebra discovered in the Jordan Valley tells the story of prehistoric migration from Africa
Bar-Ilan University

A new study, led by researchers from Bar-Ilan University, Ono Academic College, The University of Tulsa, and the Israel Antiquities Authority, presents a 1.5 million-year-old human vertebra discovered in Israel's Jordan Valley.

Released: 24-Jan-2022 2:50 PM EST
UI Health doctors to study new diagnostic test for preeclampsia in Africa 
University of Illinois Chicago

Researchers from University of Illinois Chicago have received funding to study a novel diagnostic kit for preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is pregnancy-related hypertension that can occur at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Left untreated, preeclampsia can disrupt fetal growth and lead to preterm birth and stillbirth. In mothers, it can also cause kidney and liver failure and culminate in seizures, coma and death.

Released: 19-Jan-2022 5:45 PM EST
Children in Sub-Saharan Africa dying of COVID-19 at a higher rate than others
University of Pittsburgh

Children in sub-Saharan Africa who are hospitalized with COVID-19 are dying at a rate far greater than children in the U.S. and Europe, according to a new multicenter study published today in JAMA Pediatrics and led by a University of Pittsburgh infectious diseases epidemiologist.

Released: 17-Jan-2022 8:00 AM EST
Making the invisible visible: tracing the origins of plants in West African cuisine
University of Bristol

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered the first insights into the origins of West African plant-based cuisine, locked inside pottery fragments dating back some 3,500 years ago.



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