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Scientists find potential cancer cure in malaria
Scientists may have found a way to cure cancer in humans.
Scientists say they might have made a breakthrough in fighting cancer, which could save millions suffering from the deadly disease.
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) have found that malaria protein can attack and fight cancer cells.
According to the research team, a malaria protein...
Denmark invests $75mn in offensive cyber division
The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (FE) has stated its readiness to launch cyberattacks against hostile states and organizations, according to Politiken daily. Over the next 2 years some $75 million will be invested in an “offensive” cyber division.
By 2017 Denmark will pour some 465 million kroner ($75 million) into developing an offensive cyber-attack capability, according to the report....
24,000-year-old Siberian boy links Western Europeans to Native Americans
The anthropological world was stunned when the recent genome study of the 24,000-year-old remains of a small Siberian boy revealed that the child was both part-Western European and modern Native American.
This turns on its head the long-held notion that those who first settled the Americas (themselves descendants of Siberian populations) were related to East Asians, as well as raising questions as...
Researchers find new genus of rat in Indonesia
An international team of zoologists has identified a new genus of rat in the Moluccan province of Indonesia that represents a unique set of characteristics.
The newly found animal was discovered on the Halmahera Island in Wallacea, an Eastern Indonesian region.
Researchers believe that the species locally dubbed Halmaheramys bokimekot lives only in Wallacea region which has been named after the British...