BioSense Global, a biotech firm, signed a $68 million option agreement with France's Neovacs for China rights to a vaccine aimed to treat systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, or lupus) and dermatomyositis. The IFNa Kinoid is currently undergoing its Phase II trial.
Scientists have revealed how important Neanderthal DNA is to modern humans, providing evidence of a crucial genetic footprint that can still be seen in modern humans. Scientists say that although Neanderthals disappeared 40,000 years ago, their genetic imprint is still embedded in all of us today.
"Air Force One" is the US President's official plane that will transport him and his whole team, whenever he travels within the US or when he is traveling to another country. This plane is a 747 jet plane equipped with equipment and facilities that make it a Command Center for the US President.
Researchers in England successfully taught bumblebees to roll a mini ball towards a target area in a study which revealed learning abilities of the insect which were not known until now.
According to the study, pathological proteins, known as Lewy bodies, spread from one cell to another through tunneling nanotubes that act as conduits. The study further states that non-neuronal cells in the blood vessels, called pericytes, also appear to harbour and spread Lewy bodies.
Those who live in Africa and South America will witness an annular eclipse known as The Ring of Fire on Sunday, February 26.
NASA has marked the 30th anniversary of the sighting of one of the brightest supernova ever seen from Earth. This massive star dying in the Large Magellanic Cloud was seen for the first time on February 23, 1987, from the Southern Hemisphere.
Scientists weigh in if any of the newly discovered Earth-like TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets can host life despite its very dim ultracool dwarf star.
‘Russia’s Soyuz rocket launched Progress MS-05 into orbit and linked up with the ISS bringing in the second batch of supplies at the Pirs module at 0830 GMT (3:30 a.m. EST) after it had traveled 250 miles or 400 kilometers over the South Pacific Ocean, east of New Zealand.
'SpaceX' Elon Musk ambitious plan to have its first human landing on the Red Planet and colonize Mars in the near future is a grand, if not a crazy plan but can be possible. Although, wanting to have sent its Red Dragon robotic mission ,first but SpaceX is holding it until 2020 instead of 2018.
