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By SHERRY CHABALA

INDENI Petroleum Refinery has disclosed that it will soon start converting crude oil tanks into diesel storage facilities increase the country’s fuel reservoirs.

Scientists have designed an AI tool that can rapidly decode a brain tumor’s DNA to determine its molecular identity during surgery—critical information that under the current approach can take a few days and up to a few weeks.

Until now, scientific evidence has been inconclusive regarding the ability of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, to replicate in the human placenta. Answering this question, as well as understanding the response of the placenta to other viral infections during pregnancy, is crucial for the development of effective preventive and therapeutic strategies for both the mother and the baby.

Fatigue, which can be defined as lacking energy and the motivation to do things during the day, is a very common symptom that most humans will experience at least once in their life. While it is sometimes linked to medical conditions, in most cases it is caused by poor lifestyle choices, stress, environmental circumstances, and/or psychological factors.

War led Nawal Nadar to flee her home country of Lebanon to Kuwait, then the United Arab Emirates, and finally arriving in Australia in 1998. Ms. Nadar is now a maternity liaison officer at Blacktown Hospital in Sydney’s West, working with women who also come from conflict-affected backgrounds. Their experiences are vastly different to people born in Australia, particularly when it comes to mental health.

Jiajie Diao, associate professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, has invented a method for detecting early-stage cancers that could help his colleagues at UC and worldwide save many lives.

A collaboration between the Márquez group at EMBL Grenoble and Italian researchers from the European Biomedical Research Institute of Salerno (EBRIS) has led to the development and characterization of a novel small molecule inhibitor, which shows promising activity against three SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Each time our cells divide, the protective caps that keep our chromosomes from fraying, called telomeres, lose a bit of their DNA. Telomeres shorten steadily as we age, but in certain medical conditions like dyskeratosis congenita, the process is accelerated.

By SHARON ZULU

KASONDE Mwenda has accused the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) of shielding government Ministers who are engaging in corruption on the basis that they fall in a group of people called politically exposed persons.

BY NATION REPORTER

CITIZENS’ First president Harry Kalaba has called constitutional reform on clauses that allow the head of State to retire with his immunity.