‘Smart’ contact lenses that have the potential to diagnose early stage cancer through tumour identifying chemicals found in tears have been created by scientists. The device could open the door to an inexpensive ‘one size fits all’ screening programme for multiple types of the disease. The technology captures transporters called ... Read More »
Results of two studies may explain why some people develop diabetes after catching the virus Covid-19 can infect insulin-producing cells in the pancreas and change their function, potentially explaining why some previously healthy people develop diabetes after catching the virus… Various theories have been put forward to explain this increase. ... Read More »
Lebanon has recorded 1558 new coronavirus cases and four deaths in the last 24 hours, as reported by the Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday. NNA Read More »
Caretaker Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Monday contacted by phone, Iraqi Chargé d’Affaires in Lebanon, Amin Nasraoui, expressing deepest condolences over the victims of Ibn al-Khatib Hospital fire that took place in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Minister Abdel Samad expressed her deep sorrow and sympathy towards ... Read More »
The Ministry of Public Health announced 1985 new coronavirus infection cases, which raises the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 499839. 35 deaths have been recorded over the past 24 hours. NNA Read More »
The global tourism industry has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, with $320bn (£244.5bn) lost in exports in the first five months of the year and more than 120 million jobs at risk, the chief of the UN has said. Secretary-general Antonio Guterres said in a policy briefing and video address on Tuesday that tourism is ... Read More »
Pursuant to decree N0 10493 issued on July 2, 1968 (regulation of the profession of foreign press correspondents in Lebanon), the Ministry of Information would like to inform all the Lebanese, Arab, and foreign journalists, correspondents, and photographers accredited to Arab and foreign media outlets located in Lebanon that they ... Read More »
Covid-19 immunity levels in the public could be as high as 30 per cent, according to a new international study. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden found that people with mild or no symptoms had developed “T-cell” immunity — despite testing negative for antibodies that fight the novel disease. T-cells are a type ... Read More »
The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Coronavirus has more than one gateway into cells Two teams of European researchers, working independently, have identified a new ... Read More »
Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, and with more than 380,000 people dead, the picture we have of Sars-CoV-2 remains opaque and unclear. Thousands of papers and reports have flooded the academic sphere during this period, as scientists have rushed to understand the virus, which, according to the journal Science, ... Read More »
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