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Fighting dengue with sterile insects: Lisbon’s experimental approach

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Portugal has released 30,000 sterile male mosquitoes in Lisbon as part of a push to bring down populations ...

How a simple urine test could spare most women from invasive womb cancer proc...

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Researchers at the University of Manchester developed a non-invasive womb cancer test that correctly identified most cancers and returned ...

A wildlife reserve in Kenya is witnessing a baby elephant boom

Despite the tumultuous state of the world in the past seven months, it has been a good year so far for Kenya’s elephant population, ...

How the nation’s largest electric school bus fleet will also power the ...

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In Oakland, California, a trailblazing initiative is changing the face of renewable transportation and energy. At a former ...

Huntington’s disease breakthrough: gene therapy slows progression by 75 percent

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For the first time, doctors say Huntington’s disease, one of the most devastating hereditary neurological conditions, has been ...