ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad has confirmed the detection of Type-1 Wild Poliovirus (WPV1) in the environmental samples of 3 more Pakistan cities. According to the Regional Reference Lab for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), sewage samples collected from Karachi South, Karachi Central, Jamshoro and Hub contained poliovirus, which as genetically linked to …

LONDON: An 18-month-old British girl who was born completely deaf is believed to be the youngest person to have their hearing restored after undergoing groundbreaking new gene therapy. Several medical teams around the world including in China and the United States have been trialing similar treatments with good results for hereditary deafness that focuses on a rare genetic mutation. But …

TikTok said on Thursday it would start using a technology aimed at helping it label images and video generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and uploaded to the video sharing service. TikTok said it would adopt “Content Credentials,” a digital watermark that denotes how images were created and edited. The Content Credential technology was spearheaded by Adobe (ADBE.O) but is open …

BERLIN: Xabi Alonso’s rampaging Bayer Leverkusen will have an additional incentive in Thursday’s home second-leg Europa League semi-final agai­nst Roma: breaking a 59-year-old European football record. Avoiding defeat against Roma on Thursday will not only mean a trip to Dublin for the Europa League final, it will also extend their unbeaten run to 49 games — the best mark in …

MARSEILLE: The Olympic flame reached Marseille, just outside the Old Port, amid tight security on Wednesday, 79 days before the Paris 2024 Games Opening Ceremony. More than 150,000 people are expected to attend the ceremony after a six-hour parade of the three-masted Belem, which left Greece on April 27 with the flame after it was lit in Ancient Olympia 11 …

IPOH: Pakistan and Japan won their respective matches on Wed­n­esday to qualify for the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup final in Ipoh. Both the teams top the table with 10 points each from four mat­ches. The final will be staged on May 11 at the Azlan Shah Stadium. Pakistan have registered three wins and a draw while Japan also have the …

Olympic and world javelin champion Neeraj Chopra said Indian athletes have shown they can compete with the European powerhouses at the event and the key to success at the Paris Games is maintaining their self-belief. European athletes won 15 of the last 16 gold medals in the men’s event before Chopra threw 87.58 metres at the Tokyo Games in 2021 …

KARACHI: Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir is still waiting for his Ireland visa to travel to the country for the three-match Twenty20 International series that commences on Friday. The 32-year-old, who rescinded his international retirement in March to make his Pakistan return ahead of this year’s T20 World Cup, is part of the national side’s 18-member squad for the Ireland series and the …

GENEVA: After talks which spanned over a period of over 20 years, the United Nations is adamant on finalising an international agreement, in order to combat so-called ‘biopiracy’ later this month. Their solution is to enhance transparency with regards to the patenting of ‘traditional knowledge’ surrounding genetic resources. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (a UN agency that deals with IP …