A research team from the University of Copenhagen has recently completed an artificial library of antibodies, comprised of copies of antibodies generated by Steve Ludwin’s immune system in response to injections with snake venom. A red tailed rat snake. Photo: trybex/Depositphotos For 25 years, Ludwin has self-administered weekly injections of venom from some of the world’s most […]
Continue reading …U.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerusalem, June 20, 2017. Haim Tzach/ GPO U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will travel to Israel early next week, a senior White House official said Friday. MU.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerusalem, June 20, […]
Continue reading …Public sentiment toward China is worsening here after two Korean photojournalists were beaten by more than a dozen Chinese security guards during a trade event attended by President Moon Jae-in in Beijing, Thursday. Civic activists hold a rally near the Chinese Embassy in Myeong-dong, Seoul, Friday, demanding punishment for Chinese security guards who assaulted two […]
Continue reading …Prime Minister Charles Michel requested that the issue of status of Jerusalem should be addressed at the European Summit that took place in Brussels yesterday, following president Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. © Belga “Belgium has always been in a position of a peace messenger and is engaged in a very balanced way […]
Continue reading …NAIROBI (Reuters) – The budget approved by Somalia’s parliament this week is in line with fiscal reforms the government committed to when it entered an International Monetary Fund programme in May, an IMF official told Reuters. Somalia is now on its second 12-month IMF staff-monitored programme after decades of war and turmoil, and adherence to […]
Continue reading …China supports an independent Palestine on the basis of the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, the country’s foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday. Speaking after an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held in Istanbul on Wednesday, Lu Kang said Beijing understood the concerns of Muslim countries over the status […]
Continue reading …The Dubai Camel Hospital intends to help in the research and development of camel medicine. Dubai: Pristine operating theatres and state-of-the-art medical equipment are featured in a new Dubai hospital that opened last week — exclusively for camels. Camels remain an important part of the Gulf Arab state’s heritage. Camel races and camel beauty pageants […]
Continue reading …A Russian court on Friday sentenced former economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev to eight years in a penal colony for taking a US$2 million bribe from an ally of President Vladimir Putin. Ulyukayev is the highest-ranking official arrested in Putin’s 17 years in power. The Moscow court ruled he must also pay a fine of 130 […]
Continue reading …There have been many stories in US news media lately about how China’s ban on foreign waste has caused recycling chaos in their country. A National Public Radio story last week described the impact on Portland, Oregon, quoting a spokesman for local Rogue Waste as saying that the company had no choice but to take […]
Continue reading …Here’s what we know about the fatal collision between a train and school bus that has so far killed four in France. Photo: AFP What happened? A school bus, which was carrying around 20 pupils from a local secondary school, was struck by the train in Millas about 18 kilometres west (11 miles) of the […]
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