Science

InterviewsJean-Marc Ayoubi: A Leading Figure in Reproductive Medicine

Elie Valluy – Paris Correspondent 09:55 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

March 31, 2019, is a landmark date in French medical history. On that day, Professor Jean-Marc Ayoubi led a pioneering surgical team to carry out the country’s first uterus transplant. The recipient, a 34-year-old woman born without a uterus due to MRKH syndrome, received the organ from a living donor — her own mother. Reflecting on the ...

Third Kidney Xenotransplant: A Hopeful Yet Monitored Step

This is Beirut 18/12 19:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Towana Looney, a 53-year-old American, became the third living person to receive an experimental genetically modified pig kidney transplant. The procedure, performed in late November at NYU Langone Hospital in New York, marks an important step in xenotransplantation aimed at addressing the chronic shortage of human organ donors. Ms. Looney, who ...

ExclusiveVictor Ambros: From Skepticism to the Nobel Prize

Alain E. Andrea 10/12 19:40 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

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“All of my remaining realisable assets are to be disbursed as follows: the capital, converted to safe securities by my executors, is to constitute a fund, the interest on which is to be distributed annually as prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.” These were Alfred Nobel's final ...

ExclusiveAnnouncement - Exclusive Interview with Victor Ambros, the 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine

This is Beirut 09/12 12:40 - Reading : less than a minute

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When, in 1993, Ambros identified a particular molecule, lin-4, he could not have imagined that he was laying the foundation for a scientific revolution. These microRNAs, invisible to the naked eye, are now considered the architects of biology, orchestrating essential processes within our cells. But what do these small, yet powerful, molecules ...

Iran Launches Heaviest Space Payload Into Orbit

This is Beirut 06/12 10:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iran successfully launched on Friday its heaviest space payload, which includes a satellite and a space tug, using a domestically developed satellite carrier, official media reported. Weighing 300 kilogrammes (660 pounds), the payload consisted of the Fakhr-1 telecommunications satellite and the Saman-1 space tug, according to state ...

Europe’s Vega-C Rocket Launches Satellite Into Orbit After Delays

This is Beirut 06/12 09:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Europe's new Vega-C rocket launched Thursday from French Guiana and put a satellite into orbit in its first takeoff since a failed flight two years ago. After two days of delays, the rocket -- crucial to Europe's autonomy in reaching space -- took off without problems, carrying the Sentinel-1C satellite for the European Union's Copernicus Earth ...

ExclusiveAIDS: In the Footsteps of a Major Scientific Scandal (2/2)

Alain E. Andrea 05/12 14:35 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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At the end of the 20th century, AIDS, previously unknown, spread rapidly, plunging the world into an unprecedented public health crisis. Researchers worked diligently to uncover the causes of this mysterious disease. In May 1983, Luc Montagnier and his team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris published an article in Science announcing that they had ...

ExclusiveAIDS: In the Footsteps of a Major Scientific Scandal (1/2)

Alain E. Andrea 02/12 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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In the early 1980s, a previously unknown disease emerged, signaling an unprecedented upheaval in the history of global public health. It all began on June 5, 1981, with the publication in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of an article titled Pneumocystis Pneumonia—Los ...

Announcement – AIDS, the Untold Story...

This is Beirut 01/12 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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On the occasion of World AIDS Day, This is Beirut takes you behind the scenes of one of the most groundbreaking scientific discoveries of the 20th century: the identification of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the infectious agent responsible for AIDS. For the first time, Professor Ara Hovanessian (then a research director at the CNRS in ...

Teenage girls, the first victims of HIV

This is Beirut 29/11 21:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Seventy percent of young people aged 15 to 19 infected with HIV in 2023 were girls, a rate that reaches 90% in sub-Saharan Africa and could undermine recent progress in the fight against the disease, UNICEF said on Friday. While the number of children and adolescents infected with HIV has been declining globally over the past decade, adolescent ...

Apatosaurus Skeleton Sells for 6 Million Euros at French Auction

This is Beirut 16/11 22:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A skeleton of a 22-meter-long dinosaur (70 feet) was sold for six million euros ($6.4 million) on Saturday, as reported by auction houses Collin du Bocage and Barbarossa. An anonymous collector purchased the vegetarian apatosaurus, which was excavated in the United States, for 4.7 million euros, bringing the total to six million euros after fees. ...

ExplainerDiabetes, a disease with a bitter taste

Alain E. Andrea 15/11 16:21 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by abnormally elevated blood glucose levels. Often asymptomatic in its early stages, it primarily affects the vascular system. Inadequately managed chronic hyperglycemia leads to progressive damage to blood vessel walls, resulting in microangiopathy (pathological changes in small blood ...