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Breast cancer: Tracking down an elusive killer
Scientists are exploring various approaches to fight the deadliest cancer afflicting US women.
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Caught in a crossfire
A proposed power generation project in Laos has become the target of environmentalists ire
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We, the people...
Industrialised countries uneasy at the prospect of a shift from traditional political rights for the individual to rights that link communities and the environment?
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The hesitant growth of surgery in Bengal
Rapid strides in Western medicine and surgery relegated Indian medical systems to the back seat, especially because of brahmanical abhorrence of human dissection.
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World class products
This last fortnight, after two disparate experiences, I came to realise there is not much difference between colas and cars. Let me explain how. A year ago, we released a study on the cocktail
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Maps of the world
Geographical Information Systems is revolutionising the present and portend a happier future. Or so we hope in the maps of our minds.
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Losing the edge
As the world increasingly resorts to natural, plant derived cures for illnesses, the wealth of India's traditional medicinal systems lies virtually untapped because of poor research and development and marketing.
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Science cannot be a minion to wealth
A journalist without the pretensions of a scientist that's how JOHN MADDOX, editor of Nature for 15 years, would like to see himself. On his recent tour of India, Maddox talked to SUMANTA PAL on what went wrong with science and scientific establishment
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Manipulating Research
Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning more on industry sponsorship and less on government or charitable foundations. A major fallout of this alliance
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A leaf from history
The search for easily applicable environment-friendly plant protection technologies could very well find its answer in the pages of history
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World Bank's friendship with corporate sector
Every year, the World Bank channels about US $18-20 billion to developing countries in the form of loans and grants with the ostensible aim of reducing poverty and promoting economic growth. The bank
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Add zip to your wound
Today, sutures and staples are outdated methods to seal an incision
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Venting the spleen
A new drug will reduce the agony and the costs of treating thalassaemia, a hereditary blood disorder
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Diesel technology limitations
<font class='UCASE'>Jason Mark</font> and <font class='UCASE'>Candace Morey</font> , transportation analysts of UCS, have analysed various emission reduction technologies for diesel vehicles in their attempt to show that all of them have severe limitat
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Born dead
<i>I</i><i>n the story from the great Indian epic, </i> Mahabharat <i>, the legendary hero Arjun was once telling his wife Shubhadra how to penetrate the virtually unassailable ancient battle formation, </i> Chakravyuha <i>, destroy it and get out unscat
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Protein bodyguards
A protein found in almost all life forms not only offers protection against toxins but also preverits errant behaviour in other proteins
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Candid solution
Enzymes have been found that may prevent infections caused by a fungus
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A crisis overcome
The scourge of sickle cell anaernia buckles down to modern medicine as cytotoxins provide a possible cure
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A question of industry
The recent Supreme Court orders against polluting industries have merely kicked off an arduous process of cleaning up the Capital