Cameroon's expanded sequencing capacity now allows its national polio lab to detect and provide provisional results before confirmatory testing by the regional reference lab in Ghana. Local ...
Groundbreaking research shows that as men age, harmful genetic mutations in sperm become more common—not just from random ...
Due to its high accuracy and fast, simple workflow, capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a foundational technology for clinical applications. CE is an invaluable tool used to detect genetic variations ...
As the world marks World Polio Day 2025, the World Health Organisation, WHO, has hailed Africa’s remarkable progress towards eradicating the crippling disease, describing it as a milestone driven by ...
Between January and October 2025, 15 African countries reached nearly 200 million children with at least one dose of the ...
The findings show that disease-causing mutations were found in around 2% of the sperm from men in their early 30s, increasing ...
Researchers confirmed that sperm accumulate mutations over the years, increasing the risk of transmitting diseases to ...
The testing found that around one in 50 of the men in their early thirties' sperm had disease-causing mutations. However, ...
World Health Organisation has reported a decline in the number of African countries with active type 2 poliovirus outbreaks.
UK scientists have discovered that delaying fatherhood could carry its own consequences, by unknowingly passing on multiple ...
The insect, which became known as the London Underground mosquito, is known by scientists as Culex pipiens form molestus. Evolutionary biologists have long believed that it evolved from the ...