Karachi

July 5, 2018

Potential new drug for two life-threatening diseases

Researchers have successfully created a drug compound, from the goji berry plant, that is active against the parasites that cause schistosomiasis and fascioliasis. Potential new drug […]
July 3, 2018

Self-healing seed pods

An international team of researchers has discovered a self-sealing mechanism in the seed pods of Banksia plants: special waxes in the junction zone between the two […]
July 3, 2018

Promising new tool to measure antibodies against malaria

Antibodies against multiple Plasmodium falciparum proteins (or antigens) can be measured using a simple, accurate and reproducible assay that requires very small amounts of blood. Researchers […]
July 2, 2018

Host plants tell insects when to grow longer wings and migrate

Scientists have discovered that the quality of the host rice plant determines whether the brown planthopper, a major pest on rice in Asia, grows short wings […]