Joe Chidley
The intensification of agriculture has led to the widespread use of chemical pesticides for the control of pests and diseases. However, it has been demonstrated that these pesticides can enter the animal body through a number of different pathways, with
Diseases caused by trypanosomatids include leishmaniasis (Leishmania spp.), Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi), and sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma brucei) that affect millions of people, especially low-income populations, being classified as neglected tr
The highest proportions are in the United States (38 percent), Brazil (6 percent), India (5 percent), and China (4 percent). The breakdown is similar at Udacity, which says it has students in 203 countries, with the greatest numbers hailing from the United States (42 percent), India (...
English is such a hodgepodge of different languages – it’s essentially Germanic but a lot of its vocabulary comes from French, and technical words stem from Latin and Greek. This feature makes English fairly adaptable – which is a good thing for a world language – but it causes ...
A more sensitive approach than relying on symptoms is to isolate viruses from patients (i.e., grow them in cell culture). If SARS-CoV-2 can be isolated from a nose or throat swab, or from saliva, it is likely that the patient is infectious. Indeed, an rRT-PCR test cannot establish ...
Ian Bremmer