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Cuban experts from the Plant Biotechnology Institute (IBP) in Santa Clara province are once again dedicated to grow small-size varieties of banana, which are more resistant to hurricane winds.

Cuba will host the regional stage of the world most important programming competition organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world largest educational and scientific computing society.

The Havana-based Center of Biotechnology and Genetics Engineering (CIGB) is producing highly effective antivirals that are being used in the treatment of patients infected with the Influenza A (H1N1) virus in Cuba.

Cuba confirmed its fifth case of Influenza A H1N1 on June 6 after detecting the disease in a 62-year-old Canadian woman, who traveled from Toronto to eastern Santiago de Cuba June 2.

Around 100,000 people in Cuba suffer from Alzheimer''s disease, but the number could double by 2020 if no cure is found for the disease, a medical source.

The award was granted for research into and the copyright of a new molecule they developed as a growing immune-stimulant for aquatic organisms, especially fishes and crustaceans

Cuban scientific aide Fidel Angel Castro (Fidel Castro's son) received the Russian Kurchatov Award for his nuclear research in Moscow.

Today, 70 percent of children suffering from leukaemia survive, and those who suffer from sicklemia usually live beyond 50 years of age

The technology is used in only two cities in Latin America —Bogotá and Havana. It is the only technology that can detect virus from different diseases like HIV/Aids during their so-called “window period”

The Eighth Latin American Congress on Hematology started in Havana with a master lecture on the work Cuba has carried out on hematology over the last 40 years.

Systematic immunization campaigns carried out in Cuba over the past 17 years have allowed the Caribbean nation to reduce the incidence of acute Hepatitis B in more than 99%

Deep in the Gulf of Mexico, an end to the 1962 U.S. trade embargo against Cuba may be lying untapped, buried under layers of rock, seawater and bitter relations.

Cuba’s achievements in eye prosthesis rehabilitation for children and adults will be presented at the Sixth International Ophthalmology Conference and the Fourteenth National Ophthalmology Conference taking place in Havana from May 11 to 15.

The Sixth International Ophthalmology Conference ongoing in Havana parallel to the Fourteenth Cuban Ophthalmology Conference gave special acknowledgement to Cuba’s success in minimal-access orbital tumor surgery.

The 6th International Congress on Ophthalmology starts Tuesday in Cuba, with the attendance of experts from several countries.