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Researchers present battery-free pacemaker powered by the heart

Published on: August 10, 2021
07:08

Beijing, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) Researchers from Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, have developed a battery-less cardiac pacemaker that works by harvesting the heart´s kinetic energy.

Genetic variations could one day help predict timing of menopause

Published on: August 6, 2021
07:18

London, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) A study of over 200,000 women around the world has revealed around 300 genetic variants involved in determining the age at which they experienced menopause, according to the Nature journal.

Over 300 groups oppose politicization of Covid-19 research

Published on: August 2, 2021
13:02

Beijing, Aug 2 (Prensa Latina) More than 300 political parties, organizations and institutions of the world sent a joint statement on Monday to the World Health Organization (WHO) to rejects the politicization of the investigation into the origin of Covid-19.

Lambda variant of SARS-Cov-2 could evade antibodies

Published on: July 30, 2021
07:27

Washington, Jul 30 (Prensa Latina) SARS-Cov-2 Lambda variant, in addition to being highly infectious, could evade neutralizing antibodies, according to the online repository of BioRxiv pre-publications.

Russia’s ROSATOM advances work on Bolivian nuclear research center

Published on: July 29, 2021
11:03

Moscow, Jul 29 (Prensa Latina) The State Atomic Energy Corporation, ROSATOM, informed that it will complete before the year ends the two first stages of the construction of the Center for Research and Development in Nuclear Technology (CIDTN) in Bolivia.

The first living being on Earth could have been a bacterium

Published on: July 8, 2021
00:30

Madrid, Jul 8 (Prensa Latina) Living beings on Earth could have descended from a single organism known as LUCA (Last Common Ancestor), a bacterium belonging to the Planctomycetes family, the Molecular Biology and Evolution journal reported.

Russia says people immunized with Sputnik V will need another vaccine

Published on: June 8, 2021
13:39

Moscow, Jun 8 (Prensa Latina) Russian Deputy Health Minister Oleg Gridnev said on Tuesday that people who have been immunized with Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 might need another vaccine after some time.

China insists on separating SARS-CoV-2 research from politics

Published on: May 31, 2021
11:28

Beijing, May 31 (Prensa Latina) China called to separate politics from the research on the origin of SARS-CoV-2, and criticized the United States for manipulating the hypothesis that the virus escape from a lab.

Glaciers in central Chile endangered by climate change

Published on: May 22, 2021
00:15

Santiago, Chile, May 22 (Prensa Latina) The glaciers in central Chile are increasingly losing mass due to the darkening of the ice and its effect on the absorption of solar radiation, a study revealed recently.

Drinking alcohol causes damage to the brain, study finds

Published on: May 21, 2021
09:52

London, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Drinking any amount of alcohol damages human brain´s structure and functioning, a study by researchers from the University of Oxford warned.

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