What is a knowledge economy? - SciDev.Net
Apr 15, 2015 · The growing access to digital technologies could fundamentally transform developing economies. The move from hunter-gathering to the age of farming and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution 12,000 years later mark seminal transitions in human history, lifestyle and wellbeing. Now in the digital age, our civilisation may be in …
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Traditional medicine for modern times: Facts and figures
Jun 26, 2015 · Box 1: Artemisinin: traditional medicine’s blockbluster drug Artemisinin, which is extracted from Artemisia annua (Chinese sweet wormwood), is the basis for the most effective malaria drugs in the world.. Long-used in China, the medicine was first noticed by Western researchers in the 1980s. But its worldwide use wasn’t endorsed by the WHO until 2004, largely because of scepticism ...
Does biobanking hold the key to achieving universal health?
Oct 1, 2021 · The data generated through biosamples is a key resource for the digital transformation of health systems, he suggested. World revenue for biobanking will surpass $53 billion in 2027, according to Zatloukal, who underlined one of the key challenges facing biobanking: the drug industry is required to provide funding, yet patients remain reluctant to make their samples available to drug companies.
How do I write a scientific paper? - SciDev.Net
Jul 2, 2013 · Tips on how to present the results of a study, and give it the best chance of publication. Adapted with permission from a text developed by the Applied Ecology Research Group at the University of Canberra Australia, and prepared with the aid of 'How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper' by Robert Day (ISI Press, Philadelphia, 1979). A scientific paper is a written report describing original ...
Integrating modern and traditional medicine: Facts and figures
May 27, 2010 · Mushrooms are used to treat a wide range of illnesses in traditional medicine in China, Japan, Eastern Europe and Russia. Opiates. Analgesic. Unripe poppy seeds. Traditional Arab, Chinese, European, Indian and North African medicines as pain relief and to treat range of illnesses including diarrhoea, coughs and asthma. Quinine.
Eating insects ‘could cut greenhouse gas emissions’
Jan 17, 2011 · Compared to cattle, weight for weight, insects emitted 80 times less methane — a gas with 25 times more impact on global temperature levels than carbon dioxide. And crickets produced 8–12 times less ammonia than pigs. According to the study’s lead author, Dennis Oonincx, an entomologist from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, 80 ...
Nanotechnology for health: Facts and figures - SciDev.Net
Nov 18, 2010 · Priya Shetty looks at nanomedicine’s promise. Nanotechnology — the science of the extremely small — holds enormous potential for healthcare, from delivering drugs more effectively, diagnosing diseases more rapidly and sensitively, and delivering vaccines via aerosols and patches. Nanotechnology is the science of materials at the molecular ...
How to report from visits and field trips - SciDev.Net
Sep 12, 2012 · Journalist Tan Shiow Chin shares tips for getting the best out of visits to scientists in their natural habitats.. Field trips are a crucial — and exciting — aspect of science journalism. They let you see where science is done, whether in a laboratory at your local university, an international research institute or even on scientists' field trips and projects.
Philippine struggle to make the grade in STEM education
Dec 5, 2022 · Asia Pacific countries need to work harder to make STEM education attractive, say experts. [MANILA] The Philippines, despite numerous attempts to improve its educational outcomes, has instead become an educational laggard, taking the ignominious distinction of getting low rankings in three different global evaluations that scored students’ performance in science, technology, engineering and ...