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MuslimScience Monkey malaria on the rise among humans in Malaysia By Jan Piotrowski Once only monkeys were suffering — now people are getting sick too. Monkey malaria, which is three times more severe than other forms of malaria, now...
November 29th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience Biomedical research in the Arab region Published online 20 November 2014 In the not-too-distant past, biomedical research was conducted almost exclusively in North America and Western Europe. While Asia and South America have...
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MuslimScience Battery could allow poor nations to turn heat to power By Paula Park A low-cost battery that converts heat into electricity may help reduce obstacles to generating power in remote areas of developing countries. A lot of heat is...
November 12th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience The moment has finally come. Six billion kilometres and 10 years into its mission, on Wednesday a spacecraft will attempt to place a lander on a speeding comet for the first time in history. The European Space Agency’s £1bn...
November 1st, 2014 | by
MuslimScience Tokyo: Japanese researchers have successfully implanted lab-grown retinal tissue from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) into a woman in her 70s – the world’s first recipient of stem cells. In a two-hour procedure,...
November 1st, 2014 | by
MuslimScience An intersection of bioethics and epigenetics in policy, practices, and science affecting the Muslim World: a case for a wider definition. by Brian Marlatt The intersection of bioethics and epigenetics is a meeting of the...
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MuslimScience By Saman Ansari Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another patient’s body (located somewhere else), to replace the recipient’s damaged or absent organ. This has improved the quality of...
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MuslimScience By Yasmin Pascual Khalil The ability to have children has always been an important aspect of the lives of many. For Muslim Middle Easters and others as well, having children is highly desired, as parenthood is culturally...
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MuslimScience By Paula Hammond For centuries, science and religion have been viewed as opposing schools of study – one dealing with the physical and quantifiable and one with the spiritual and unknowable. However, recent work on stem...
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MuslimScience by Abdulaziz Sachedina Biomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far-reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theories and applications...
