Scientists in UK resolve a 50-year mystery with discovery of a new blood group initially thought to be a disorder
While we’re all more familiar with the ABO blood group system and the rhesus factor (that’s the plus or minus part), humans actually have many different blood group systems based on the wide variety of cell-surface proteins and sugars that coat our blood cells.
Right of reply: Kenya National Biosafety Authority is committed to human, animal and environmental health
The authority is mandated among others to promote awareness and education among the general public in matters relating to biosafety, a function that it has taken seriously through various activities across the country.
Pesticide banned in Europe but widely used in US makes brain cells age faster
The new study shows that atrazine exposure ages certain brain cells in mice, causing them to stop dividing and growing. It also highlights for the first time the role of a specific stress response pathway in disrupting the processes healthy cells use to detect, repair or remove damaged parts.
Domestic terrorism data suggests US military service is the strongest predictor of carrying out extremist violence
From 1990 through 2023, 730 individuals with US military backgrounds committed criminal acts that were motivated by their political, economic, social or religious goals, according to data from the new START report. From 1990 to 2022, successful violent plots that included perpetrators with a connection to the US military resulted in 314 deaths and 1,978 injuries – a significant number of which came from the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
US president-elect to be sentenced in hush money case, faces no penalties or jail term
President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced on January 10 in the criminal case in which he was convicted on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, but is unlikely to face jail time or other penalties, a judge said on Friday. Justice Juan Merchan’s ruling means Trump will...
After Ghana told African diaspora ‘Come home’, 524 are now citizens, more Black Americans queuing up
Between 10 to 15 million people were forcibly taken from Africa to the Americas during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the majority from West and Central Africa. Ghana, then a British colony known as the Gold Coast, was a main point of departure.
US surgeon general’s for cancer warnings on alcoholic drinks likely to shift towards more aggressive tobacco-style regulation
President-elect Donald Trump, whose brother died from alcoholism and who does not drink himself, has long warned about the risks of drinking. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been open about his past struggles with heroin and alcohol and says that he attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Drama at South Korean presidential palace as impeached Yoon’s security repulses investigators from crime office
Kim Seon-taek, a Korea University law professor, said targeting the PSS leadership may allow the investigators to sap the service’s ability to put up resistance so they can try again to execute the warrant, which is “a rough way” to proceed.
Against backdrop of volatile geopolitics US defence industrial base is on peacetime working mode, China’s on wartime conditions
The authors also underscore the Chinese shipbuilding capacity, which is “roughly 230 times larger than the United States”. More specifically, the Jiangnan Shipyard is estimated to have higher capacity compared to all of American shipyards combined.
While East Africa ‘coral jungle’ is richest in the world, it remains to be seen if Africa can convert biodiversity credits into hard cash
If demand for credits can take off, the potential benefits for conservation are considerable. The World Economic Forum claims, opens new tab the biodiversity credits market could reach $2 billion by 2030 and $69 billion by 2050.
