Scientists Find Evidence Our Best Friends, Dogs, Similarly Adapted to Malaria in Africa

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Scientists Find MTBE Degrades Naturally

inflammation. In their study of 88 heart disease patients and 88 controls, H. pylori was found in 62% of people with heart disease and only 40% of those without the disease. In 1998, the Penn State Harrisburg team, headed by microbiologist Katherine H. Baker, discovered that H. pylori contaminated surface water and shallow private wells in rural areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Of 42 surface wat...

How Do We Best Diagnose Malaria in Africa?

For many decades, the cornerstone of malaria management in Africa was to treat all febrile children with chloroquine. With high-level resistance to chloroquine and improvedmeans of malaria diagnosis, recommendations for themanagement of malaria in Africa have changed in two important ways in the last few years. First, recommended therapy for uncomplicated falciparum malaria has moved to highly ...

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How to Find the Best Homogeneous Catalyst

We present in this communication an alternative concept for optimising homogeneous catalysts. With this method, one extracts and screens virtual catalyst libraries, indicating regions in the catalyst space where good catalysts are likely to be found. This automated screening is done in two stages: A ‘rough screening’ using 2D descriptors, followed by a ‘fine screening’ using 3D descriptors. The...