Standards make everyday life run smoothly. You rarely notice them: the credit card that works in any corner of the world, the Wi-Fi signal that connects a remote village to the cloud, or the vaccine ...

Building more livable cities is an essential step toward achieving the World Bank mission of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. Today, more than half of the world’s ...

Drug development describes the process of developing a new drug that effectively targets a specific weakness in a cell. This process involves specific pre-clinical development and testing, followed by ...

A risk-based capital requirement is a regulation that compels financial institutions to hold sufficient capital relative to their risk exposures to promote financial stability. Risk-based capital ...

Structure-based drug design is the design and optimization of a chemical structure with the goal of identifying a compound suitable for clinical testing — a drug candidate. It is based on knowledge of ...

Plans have been published with details of a new neighbourhood including 500 homes and a country park. The plans to create Gibfield Park, between Atherton and the Daisy Hill area of Weshoughton, also ...