Merck in marketing deal with Biomira
Germany's Merck said on Thursday it had entered a global product development and co-promotion deal for advanced lung and breast cancer therapies of Canada's Biomira Inc. Merck said in a statement
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Draft legislation would prevent stem cell research, paid surrogacy
The Canadian government introduced draft legislation Thursday that would ban human cloning and regulate assisted human reproduction. Health Minister Allan Rock presented the draft law to the Commons
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Migratory birds enjoy summer in Zoo
As Delhities dream of flying to cooler climes to escape the scorching heat, thousands of birds from south India have come to the zoo to bask in the sun and breed. Over 100 species of birds like
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Govt. to weed out fly-by-night seed sellers
Farmers can heave a sigh of relief. The Government now plans to root out fly-by-night operators in the seed business. All manufacturers would need to get their produce checked and verified through a
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The greening of Delhi
For Delhi is a wasteland, with high levels of air pollution. Hazardous medicinal wastes are not properly disposed off by many hospitals. And finally, the city's lungs--ridge is being taken over by
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US army aims for 'green' bullets
The US military is trying to go green, and not just with beretss or fatigues. In a multimillion dollar project, the Army has come up with a new bullet said to be just as deadly as the old lead-based
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Groups sue US to protect salmon from NW power dams
A coalition of 13 environmentalist groups filed a lawsuit yesterday against the federal government for failing to protect endangered salmon in the face of heavy hydro-electricity demand at U.S.
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Tigress carcass retrieved, circus animals join zoo
One of the three tiger cubs that killed tigress Lakshmi at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday stood guard near the carcass whole night and went into its night shelter at
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Hill losing green belt, birds their habitat
The historical Devarayana Durga hill in Tumkur district in Karnataka with thick reserve forests is falling victim to crass commercialisation in the name of development as hundreds of trees have been
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US opposes labeling genetically engineered food
The U.S. White House is against adopting regulations, already in use in some countries, that would require companies to label foods that use genetically engineered ingredients, Health and Human
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Golden rice: hope or hype?
None of the crops grown today were selected keeping our nutritional requirements in mind. The most important food crop in the developing world - rice - has no pro vitamin A and little iron in its
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Cotton Conundrum
Bt cotton becomes the first genetically modified crop to be grown commercially in the Indian fields, though critics fear that it is brought with risks to human health and environment. A group of
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Back to the future with nanotech
Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have punched holes about 6,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair in a piece of plastic, creating a novel form of data storage.
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Brain mapping
Surgeons have developed a technique enabling them to successfully conduct open brain surgery on conscious patients without fear of side effects, at Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital.
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'Capital hell for asthma patients'
There are 50 million people suffering from asthma in India. This disease is incurable and patients can only take steps to control the severity of an attack. One such step is to stay away from
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Famine menaces Sudan, UN warns
More than half a million people in Sudan face starvation and sickness if aid does not reach them, the United Nations office in Sudan said late Thursday. Some 600,000 people, many of them women and
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High temperatures prompt smog warning
As temperatures climbed to 30 C in southern Ontario on Thursday, the year's first smog alert was issued - and Torontonians weren't the only ones feeling the effects of heat mixed with air pollution.
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Floods reach chest level in waterlogged Somme
France's Somme valley, synonymous with World War One trench warfare, is once again teeming with muddy, khaki-clad soldiers, army trucks and sandbags. If the trickle of visitors coming to ogle some of
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Chirac targets green voters with "ecology charter"
French President Jacques Chirac sought yesterday to lure green-minded voters in next year's national elections with a proposal that the public be granted a constitutional right to a clean
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US team prepares to clean up Ogoni oil spill
U.S. experts began work yesterday to contain an oil spill in southern Ogoniland where Shell said years of neglect had turned 14 wells into timebombs. A spokesman for the Nigerian unit of Royal