By Estanislao Nistal Villán, Virólogo y profesor de Microbiología de la Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad CEU San Pablo
Sergio Rius Rocabert, Profesor colaborador doctor en microbiología. Virólogo e inmunólogo., Universidad CEU San Pablo
Understanding inflammation – and above all, how to regulate it – is one of the great medical challenges of modern medicine. Its role as the first line of defence is crucial. It occurs when the presence of infectious agents triggers an inflammatory response. As well as hindering the entry of viruses and bacteria, this acts as a distress signal, attracting other components of our immune system.
But excessive inflammatory response can be harmful. Indeed, poor regulation of inflammation plays a central role in the way many illnesses develop.
One example of this is COVID, where…
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By Amnesty International
A year after Amnesty International documented widespread abuse of Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, a new briefing from the organization reveals that Filipino women are facing many of the same abuses, including being overworked, exploited and subjected to degrading treatment, as well as sexual assault in some cases. “Once we step in their homes, […] The post Global: Filipino domestic workers exploited and subjected to sexual abuse in Saudi Arabia appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Global Voices Central & Eastern Europe
Between 1990 and 2008, Yugoslavia dissolved into seven independent countries that faced similar challenges, but also experienced important differences that affect their institutional responses to statelessness.
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By Darryl Veitch, Professor of Computer Networking, University of Technology Sydney
Allison Kealy, Director, Innovative Planet Institute, Swinburne University of Technology
Telstra experienced a second major network fault after yesterday’s nationwide outage, with the telco confirming late last night that some calls, including to Triple Zero, were not going through.
At a press conference this afternoon, Michael…
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By Steve Bickley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Economics & Finance, Queensland University of Technology
What makes people change their minds, or their behaviour? Social scientists spend a lot of time thinking about this question, and experiments are one of the most powerful ways to answer it.
Experiments – testing ideas on real people – take considerable amounts of time and money. Enter large language models (LLMs): artificial intelligence (AI) systems trained to mimic certain kinds of text-based human behaviour based on vast amounts of…
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By Jessica Genauer, Academic Director, School of Public Policy and Government, UNSW Sydney
New tit-for-tat airstrikes between the US and Iran over control of the Strait of Hormuz suggest the ceasefire will not turn into a permanent peace.
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By Niusha Shafiabady, Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University
Md Akhtaruzzaman, Professor of Finance and Head of Department, Accounting and Finance, Australian Catholic University
The most important lesson for Australia is not to slow digitalisation, but to make it more resilient and remove single points of failure.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Security forces disperse protesters near the parliament building in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 12, 2026. © 2026 Aristote Lokinda/Reuters (Kinshasa) – Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo used excessive force against protesters demonstrating against a proposed law that could extend President Félix Tshisekedi’s term on June 12, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today.The security forces used tear gas and batons in the capital, Kinshasa, to prevent a group of protesters created to defend the existing constitution from attending…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Antonovsky bridge destroyed by the Russian army with explosives in its retreat of Kherson, Ukraine, November 16, 2022. © 2022 Celestino Arce Lavin/ZUMA via Reuters (Berlin, July 9, 2026) – Civilians trapped in front-line areas of the Russian-occupied Khersonska region in southern Ukraine face dire humanitarian conditions and have no safe way to leave, Human Rights Watch said today. Civilians who wish to evacuate should be allowed to do so safely.Residents who escaped the city of Oleshky, on the east bank of the Dnipro River, described severe shortages…
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Three survivors of a genocide which took place in Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina in July 1995 have told UN News how they are keeping alive the memory of the more than 8,300 men and boys who were killed in the town while combating the rising current of denial about the massacre.
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