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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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
How to reach a wider audience for your research - SciDev.Net
Dec 17, 2015 · This makes your work discoverable to machines as well as humans. Track your reach. Identify who your work is reaching, and the places where it is being shared, discussed and cited. This gives you a clearer sense of your audience, enabling you to tell richer stories to engage them. Make use of (persistent) identifiers.
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 ...
‘Undetectable’ HIV patients could hold key to treatments
Sep 26, 2024 · [JOHANNESBURG] A rare group of HIV-positive people who maintain undetectable levels of the virus in their blood without medication could hold the key to new therapies for others living with the disease, says a leading genome expert.. Unlike the vast majority of those infected, these so-called “elite controllers” can suppress the virus without the need for antiretroviral therapy (ART ...
Nanotechnology for clean water: Facts and figures - SciDev.Net
Apr 16, 2009 · Nanotechnology could help give millions clean drinking water. David J. Grimshaw outlines the potential, the progress and some of the risks.. Technology has long been important in providing clean drinking water and irrigation for food crops.Indeed, people have had water technology for thousands of years — the Romans were using aqueducts as conduits for drinking wateraround 300BC.