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In the long and often dispiriting quest to cure cancer, the 1998 approval of the drug Herceptin was a tremendously hopeful moment. This drug for breast cancer was the first to use a tumor-specific protein as a homing beacon to find and kill cancer cells. And it worked. Herceptin has benefited nearly three million people since that time, dramatically increasing the 10-year survival rate—and the cancer-free rate—for what was once one of the worst medical diagnoses. “Honestly, it was sort of earth-shattering,” says…

The total fertility rate is the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years and give birth to children at the current age-specific fertility rates. Credit: UN Population Division, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences China's population has shrunk for the second year in a row. The National…

The Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru has dramatically shrunk from 58 to 40 square kilometers between 1988 and 2023 due to climate change. This retreat is causing the loss of historical climate data preserved in the ice and significant environmental changes, including the formation of meltwater lakes and glacial floods.Ice cores and satellite images are helping preserve the history of a disappearing ice cap in the Peruvian Andes.The Quelccaya Ice Cap rests on a high-altitude plateau of the Andes Mountains in Peru. But like other…

Six leading Indian IT services companies that have announced first-quarter earnings recorded the sharpest contraction in headcount in the last three years in the April-June period. Aggregate staffing at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, HCLTech, Wipro, LTIMindtree and L&T Technology Services (LTTS) contracted by 18,000, worse than a negative 9,000 in the June quarter of 2021, which was during the pandemic, according to data compiled by Xpheno for the last three financial years.To be sure, two out of the six…

The cryptocurrency industry is continuously growing, and new projects are emerging every day. Each project comes with a solution to a specific problem. With each promising heaven and earth, investors are often confused about which project would profit them. As the speculations in the Crypto world continue, different crypto is posting contrasting behaviors. Filecoin (FIL) is finding it tough with the bearish market, while Bitcoin SV (BSV) has shown immense progress. However, the talk of the town is Yachtify, an amazing…

Nigeria’s manufacturing sector shrank for the second month in a row in March as cash scarcity in Africa’s biggest economy hampered private sector activity. The development forced output and new orders to drop at rates steeper than those of the preceding month. The latest edition of Stanbic IBTC Bank Nigeria PMI, which measures factory activity in the country, puts Nigeria’s purchasing manager index for March at 42.3 compared to 44.7 for February. That signals the second deepest plunge since the survey started…

A new antibody treatment for endometriosis yet to be tested in humans appears to do what existing therapies cannot: shrink the potentially painful lesions and adhesions that plaster themselves throughout millions of bodies around the world.Endometriosis is a disease where tissue that usually lines the inside of the uterus grows outside the womb and attaches to other organs in the body. It affects one in ten women of reproductive age, causing debilitating pain, excessive bleeding, and inflammation.There are other…

Nigerian stocks depreciated for the second consecutive day on Friday as the benchmark index dipped by 0.1 per cent. The index had on Wednesday touched its peak level since late June 2008 but at the end of trading Friday, transaction volume contracted by 22 per cent relative to Thursday’s even though turnover considerably advanced by 69 per cent. Huge sell-off in the shares of beer-maker Nigerian Breweries triggered the slide, supported by MTN Nigeria. The telecom company’s shares saw a little profit-taking from…

The last time China's population declined was in 1960, as the country battled the worst famine in its modern history. China has long been the world's most populous nation, but is expected to soon be overtaken by India. (Reuters Archive)…

WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service significantly shrank its backlogged pile of tax returns during 2022 but still faces a challenging tax-filing season ahead, according to a report released Wednesday. As of Dec. 9, 2022, the IRS had 1 million individual returns and 1.5 million business returns awaiting processing, according to the report from Erin Collins, the national taxpayer advocate, who runs an independent taxpayer-assistance operation inside the…