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Sian Lewis explains how remote sensing can be used to manage natural disasters and highlights ongoing efforts and obstacles.

Developing nations are building their own satellites despite freely available Western data. Do the gains outweigh the costs, asks Tatum Anderson.

A new study has evaluated the 12 potential vaccines against dengue fever, discussing the challenges facing their development.

Can Brazil use its booming economy and abundant natural resources to become a life sciences juggernaut, asks Gene Russo.

Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.

The WHO director-general on the first pandemic in four decades and the battle to get drugs and vaccines to the developing world.

It is a hundred years since the discovery of Chagas disease — and in some ways it has been a lost century, say campaigners.

Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.

Remote sensing is crucial for getting the measure of forest loss. Countries don't need their own satellites but they do need training.

Sian Lewis charts the ups and downs in donor funding for higher education in developing countries over the last half century.

Fostering a research culture has put Uganda's Makerere University back on its feet and is inspiring others, says Peter Wamboga-Mugirya.

The Internet is spreading to villages in the developing world — but sometimes in unexpected ways, reports Katherine Nightingale.

Text messaging to ensure that TB patients in developing countries take their medication every day is showing promise in trials.

Following 40 years of persecution and governmental indifference, science and scientists are back on the Argentinian agenda.

Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief, speaks to SciDev.Net about getting clean technology into the developing world.

Developing countries are attractive places to run clinical trials, but in many places ethical oversight falls short.

Cassava is getting a transgenic makeover to boost its nutritional value, shelf-life and disease resistance.

Vaccines for non-infectious illness could help developing nations tackle the growing burden of chronic disease. Maryke Steffens reports.

Abdallah S. Daar speaks to SciDev.Net about the Grand Challenges in Chronic Non-communicable Diseases initiative.

Jacob Palis, president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, talks about shared responsibility and a rosy future for South–South research collaboration.