TopNews

The World Resources Institute (WRI) has called the United States' proposed climate action plan as ‘leadership by example’ and a ‘positive signal’ for the global climate agreement. The agreement will be finalized in Paris this December.

The plan proposed by the US has a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions between 26% and 28% below the 2005 levels, by 2025. The plan is known as its ‘intended nationally determined contribution’.

WRI's Global Director, Climate Change Programme, Jennifer Morgan said, “The United States' proposal shows that it is ready to lead by example on the climate crisis. By enacting these common sense actions, the US can grow its economy and save money through cleaner technologies”.

The United States government announced that it has decided to provide help in developing a new Ebola drug. According to reports, the new drug is among the five drugs that are being tested against the disease.

The new drug is made by BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. According to a statement given by the Health and Human Services Department, the new drug, BCX4430, by BioCryst Pharmaceuticals is a small molecule that helps in preventing the deadly virus from reproducing in the human body. Small molecule means that it could be taken as a pill.

Breast cancer is not a single disease. In fact, it has four molecular subtypes, revealed a new study. The study researchers affirmed that every subtype has differnet treatment responses and varying survival rates.

It shall be noted that cases of these subtypes differ as per age, race/ ethnicity and other factors. Researchers from different organizations including the North American Association of Cancer Registries (NAACCR), the American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have differentiated breast cancers as per tumor subtypes.

A woman in Maine is getting a second chance to live all because of a stranger who spotted a message on her windshield, and decided to donate her kidney.

Christine Royles was diagnosed with lupus in December 2013 and later suffered kidney failure. She was put on a donor list for a new kidney in July 2014, but after few months she decided to expand the search for her donor.

She pleaded for help by painting a message on her car. Every week she used to change the message on her car.

In one of her messages, she mentioned that she has a two-year-old son, the messages caught the attention of Josh Dall-Leighton and led him and his wife Ashley to reach out to her.

Royles, who lives with her son and fiancé, said she started crying when Josh Dall-Leighton's wife Ashley texted her.

According to a new mouse study, cancer drugs could be helpful in treating Alzheimer's disease. The study has been published in the journal Annals of Neurology.

The drug, AZD05030, has been developed by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine. The drug didn't work in the treatment of solid tumors. But according to Astra Zenca, the official maker of the drug, they performed human trials for testing the efficacy of the drug in Alzheimer's patients.

According to Stephen M. Strittmatter, the Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and senior author of the study, "With this treatment, cells under bombardment by beta amyloid plaques show restored synaptic connections and reduced inflammation, and the animal's memory, which was lost during the course of the disease, comes back".

An open letter was sent to Gov. Mike Pence on Monday by nearly a dozen LGBT and civil right groups which urged him and lawmakers to fix the disputed Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) that was signed last week.

Indiana's RFRA that was signed into law on March 26 says that governments can't interfere on a person's religious rights unless it has a compelling government interest and is acting in the least intrusive way possible. Since he signed the law, several public figures and businesses have come out against it.

Indiana is facing boycotts and criticism after Pence signed the piece of legislation as it could encourage discrimination by allowing business owners to refuse service to LGBT customers in the name of 'religious freedom'.