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Today is #OneHealth Day
What is One Health?
One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems.
#OneHealth #StandWithScience
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Researchers in @ScienceAdvances have demonstrated that brief physical contact between healthy and bleached coral can restore algae to the bleached coral, leading to their full recovery. scim.ag/4s40Tt3
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Zika was introduced in the Americas and caused a massive outbreak, leading to birth of severely disabled children. 50% of the " Zika" babies has been hospitalised by the age of 5 years, showing continued health issues publications.aap.org/pediatr…
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Interesting in light of the current discussions on Europe's resilience....blackout-news.de/en/economy/…
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Medicine laureate Linda Buck tells her students: “Pick a problem that you’re extremely interested in.”
Is there a challenge you’re trying to solve?
#NobelPrize
ALT Portrait of Nobel Prize laureate Linda Buck with a quote: 'Pick a problem that you're extremely interested in.'
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The virus causing polio was discovered in 1908 by Karl Landsteiner and Erwin Popper. Landsteiner was later awarded a Nobel Prize for another discovery, that of human blood groups.
Today polio is almost eradicated thanks to a safe and effective vaccine.
#endpolio
ALT A black and white photo of child getting a polio vaccine. A doctor is to her left and a nurse to the right.
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Putting this out there: the cost of advertising in the US mid term elections nytimes.com/2026/10/14/us/po…. That is roughly 5 years of HIV treatment for all of Africa. Just a thought
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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
Novelist Doris Lessing was awarded the 2007 literature prize when she was 88 years old. She was and still is the oldest person to receive the award.
ALT Grey and white photo of Doris Lessing looking off into the distance.
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Today on World CRISPR Day, we would like to highlight our two chemistry laureates Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier.
In 2012, they developed a method for high-precision gene editing, which has transformed the field of biotechnology and medicine. The genetic scissors became known as CRISPR/Cas9. In 2020 their breakthrough was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Watch this interview of Doudna explaining how CRISPR has evolved since then: bit.ly/3U5DTNQ
ALT Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier smiling and standing closely together, partially surrounded by strings of glowing spherical lights. The photo credit mentions Clément Morin and Nobel Prize Outreach.
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Anni Albers (1899 – 1994) leading textile artist of the 20th century credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and art #Womensart #BauhausWomen
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NeSpoon, internationally reknowned muralist from Poland, who creates street art that resembles intricate, traditional lacework #womensart
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More than two decades since the world declared #peace requires women’s leadership, we are seeing:
🔺 Rise in conflicts
🔻 Decline in funds for peacebuilders
Find out more on how #GenderEquality and peace go hand-in-hand.
🔗 unwomen.org/en/articles/in-f…
#WomenPeaceSecurity
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"Creativity is combining facts no one else has connected before."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her studies on fruit flies.
Discover more about her life and work: bit.ly/2WYTSda
ALT An image of Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard in a lab holding transparent storage
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There's a lot in a face photograph about health that AI can detect, as seen in this foundation model of >40 million face images, including outcomes from cancer, biological age, influence of lifestyle factors, and survival @LancetDigitalH
thelancet.com/journals/landi…
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Globally, women hold only 64% of the legal rights that men enjoy, and no country has achieved full legal equality.
Justice for all women and girls is NON-NEGOTIABLE.
#ForAllWomenAndGirls #GenderEquality
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Alma Siedhoff-Buscher ( 1899-1944) German designer, best known for her pioneering work in furniture and children's toys #Womensart #BauhausWomem
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Further evidence that West Nile has been going under the radar. Community serosurvey @rivm medrxiv.org/content/10.64898…. We saw that also from animal studies and studies involving bird ringers. early detection is complicated... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… and sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Everyone has the right to live free from poverty and the chance to thrive.
Every efforts must be made to eradicate poverty so all people, everywhere, can live with dignity and prosperity.
Saturday is #EndPoverty Day.
un.org/en/observances/day-fo…
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426 million women and girls live in extreme poverty in 2026.
On #EndPoverty Day, we call for greater investment to strengthen social protection, health and education #ForAllWomenAndGirls.
More from our latest Gender Snapshot:
unwomen.org/en/resources/gen…
#ForAllWomenAndGirls
