New York, July 22 A team of researchers, including one of Indian origin, has developed a medical face mask membrane similar to N95, which can capture and deactivate the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on contact. SARS-CoV-2 is covered in spike proteins, which allow the virus to enter host cells once in ...

Sydney, July 22 Sexual closeness is the most likely route of transmission in 95 per cent of monkeypox cases, according to a global case study series from across 16 countries. However, the virus can be transmitted by any close physical contact through large respiratory droplets and potentially through clothing and ...

London, July 20 Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, who resigned from this position because of differences with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on Wednesday won the first stage of the contest to succeed Johnson as head of government among fellow Conservative MPs. He secured 137 votes. Facing Sunak ...

London, July 19 UK's former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on Tuesday hung on his lead in the race to select the next leader of the Conservative Party - and the Prime Minister, extending his lead in the fourth round to nearly a third of all votes. Sunak secured ...

London, July 19 Vladimir Putin has arrived in Iran to forge a fearsome new alliance, with both sanction-hit countries united by their hatred for the West, media reports said. The Russian leader will meet President Ebrahim Raisi and Ayatollah Khamenei, the Islamic Republic's supreme leader, during the talks aimed at ...

Vienna, July 19 Austria's inflation rate has continued to soar, reaching 8.7 per cent in June, the highest level since September 1975, Statistics Austria said on Tuesday. The June inflation rate was one percentage point higher than that in May, Xinhua news agency reported quoting Statistics Austria. Statistics Austria said ...

Los Angeles, July 19 Podcaster Joe Rogans recent off hand remark to podcast guest comedian Tom Segura that "Maybe you should just go shoot the homeless people" in Los Angeles has left several of the citys unhoused advocates stunned and disheartened. In the July 14 episode of 'The Joe Rogan ...

Kiev, July 18 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suspended the head of Ukraine's spy agency (SBU) and the prosecutor general in the wake of treason cases in the two organisations. President Zelenskyy on Sunday suspended Ivan Bakanov and Iryna Venediktova. However, the officials are yet to comment on their suspension. ...

Toronto, July 18 Canadian researchers have grown a small-scale model of a human left heart ventricle - the main chamber of heart - in the lab. In the human heart, the left ventricle is the one that pumps freshly oxygenated blood into the aorta, and from there, into the rest ...

Accra, July 18 Ghana has confirmed the country's first two cases of Marburg virus disease (MVD), the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said. The confirmation came after samples from suspected infected individuals sent to the Institute Pasteur in Dakar (IPD) tested positive for MVD, the GHS in a statement late ...