First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Health
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Cholera on the rise, 66 reported ill
Cases of cholera are increasing, as 66 cases have been reported from various parts of the city during the last
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Scientists question estimated number of human genes
A group of California researchers has called into question the startling estimate, published in two landmark papers on the human genome earlier this year, that humans have only about 30,000 genes.
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Stem cells prove hard to come by
If scientists want to develop new supplies of embryonic stem cells, they may have to take the bold and controversial step of creating human embryos expressly for research, many leading fertility
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Watershed in Scotland's foot-and-mouth battle
Scotland is reaching a crucial watershed in the battle against foot-and-mouth disease. The National Farmers' Union of Scotland is meeting to discuss the current situation north of the border.
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Foot and mouth outlook now 'ominous'
The UK government was last night contemplating the possibility that foot and mouth disease might not be fully contained before the autumn and, potentially, could spread throughout Britain again as
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WHO team in Baghdad to probe depleted uranium
A team from the World Health Organisation arrived in Baghdad yesterday to lay the groundwork for research on a possible link between cancer and depleted uranium used by U.S.-led forces in the 1991
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Small lab in Sweden holds a huge trove of stem cells
The Lab That Shot to the Top of the Charts, turning out to have more embryonic stem cells than anyone else, is actually a warm little closet in Building 9A of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in
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Saidapet accounts for 40 p.c. of filaria cases
The Chennai Corporation has opened up a filaria clinic at the Communicable Diseases Hospital, Tondiarpet, with modern equipment to treat filaria patients in the city, but this has shifted the focus
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Stem cell research to give biotech sector a leg-up
India's nascent biotech industry got a boost when the country's biggest industrial group and a research laboratory funded by the Department of Atomic Energy were identified as having stem cell lines
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Expired drugs case will be probed : CMM
A Delhi court on Tuesday asked All India Institute of Medical Science director P. K. Dave to constitute an expert committee to look into the G. B. Pant Hospital's 'expired drugs case' in which 70