The increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan Africa is causing further burden to the health care systems that are least equipped to deal with the challenge.
The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, enforced in 2005, was a watershed international treaty that stipulated requirements for signatories to govern the production, sale, distribution, advertisement, and taxation
The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project, received a funding boost of $35 million from Canadian agencies for a 26-nation effort to collect specimens, sequence their DNA, and build an informatics platform using digital bar codes to store an
The Canada-led International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project has received new pledges from its major supporters, raising totals from these funders to $80 million.
Researchers are quickly amassing barcodes or identifiers for a database of life forms, and developing new informatics tools and technologies.