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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
COCAINE is the single-most abused drug in the us. Researchers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the Duke University, both in the us, have taken the first step towards, what they claim, a therapeutic cure for addiction of cocaine and other …
SOME people suffer from compulsions like the overpowering need to wash their hands all the time. Such people can lose precious hours of the day preoccupied in their obsessions and compulsions. This malady known as obsessive-compulsive disorder affects approximately five million Americans. A new study recommends psychotherapy sessions for patients …
AGGRESSIVE behaviour and delinquency in boys may not be inherent, as is generally thought. It might also not be related to the social environment around the child- rather it could be caused due to the physical environment, A new study finds that high levels of lead in the bone might …
A PERSONAL mini radar system, which promises huge mass-marketpotential, has at last been developed. The new radar is named micropower impulse radar (MIR) and it will ultimately be used in almost everything from hand tools to burglar alarms. MIR is cheap, tiny and incredibly accurate at short ranges. It can …
All organisms have an inbuilt protective mechanism -shielding them from attack of viruses - called the immune system. The immune system in the case of vertebrates is highly evolved because it can recognise and eliminate 100 million different substances. According to Martin Gellert, a biochemist at the National Institutes of …
Polluting companies in the US - the country which has often screamed the loudest at the merest hint of environmental negligence - can now rest easy. Protecting them from engendering environmental disruption are several American states. Strange as it may sound, one US state after another is now adopting laws …
THIS mouse, was born in the Jackson laboratory at Bar Harbor, Maine, us. Its birth marked the culmination of years of research by developmental biologist John Eppig and his research assistant Marilyn O'Brien. The actual process of raising the creature took three weeks, which is the normal period of gestation …
Martin E Nix, an engineer from Seattle, US, who holds several patents for solar powered inventions, has devised a way of turning old refrigerators into greenhouses. The condenser, compressor and the motor are removed first; then a hole is cut at the top for a skylight and a solar-powered fan. …
"Mad cows aside, why cat meat at all?" is the question being posed by some today. The disease has managed to reopen the familiar debate on the advantages and the wisdom of adopting vegetarianism. Mad cows seem to have instilled a fear in some flesh - eaters regarding the possible …
Two biochemical manufacturing farms, with obviously environmental protection as one of their fortes, have begun testing an alternative to incineration for noxious wastes like paint thinners and jet fuels. ENV America in California, and High Mesa Technologies Inc. of Santa Fe, New Mexico, are the pioneers in using the Free …
HAEMOGLOBIN, the blood's red pigment which was until now thought to transport only oxygen to and bring out carbon dioxide from the body's tissues, has now been credited with yet another major function. In a finding that could mean a new look at treating disorders like blood pressure and a …
The'notion that alzheimer's disease -mental deterioration -strikes only the old suffered a severe jolt following a study of nuns by David A Snowdon, professor of preventive medicine at the University of Kentucky; US. David studied old autobiographies of 104 nuns from the School Sisters of Notre Dame. The average age …
Medical researchers of the Kimmel Cancer Centre at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, US, have identified a gene linked to three types of cancers and potentially, to other types as well. The gene called fragile histidine triad (FHIT), offers doctors valuable clues in spotting inllerited genetic mutations that can cause …
Ronald Crystal of the Conell Medical Center in New York, US, is leading a research which aims at putting the cardiac surgeons out of business. Crystal's therapy relies on the ability of the common-cold virus to make foreign proteins when fitted with relevant genes and this is used to generate …
'SIT straight. Keep your elbows close to your body.' How often one has been admonished and hated it all along. But this is what was suggested by experts who met at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. If you are consistently using your hands for your …
Electronic devices are getting smaller and smaller and human workers and conventional robots are finding it increasingly difficult to assemble them. Peter Will of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California and his collaborators at the California Institute of Technology have designed microrobots modelled on hairlike …
In a significant move, five states in the us agreed last month to end state suits against the LiggettGroup, a tobacco firm. The states had filed a lawsuit against the company to recover some of the millions of dollars in Medicaid expenses that each pays out for treating tobacco-related illnesses. …
Scientists have started using virtual reality (VR) methods for various psychiatric therapies. Proposed by Hans Sieburg, a professor of psychiatry and mathematics at the University of California at San Diego, US, VR cures are being hatched for sex offenders, acrophobia (morbid fear of heights) and flying-phobia. Doctors report maximum success …
The present generation of supercomputers has been using custombuilt processors which are very difficult to maintain. Now, if the Accelerated Strate~c Computing lnitiative, a US department of energy-funded project is successful, this may become a thing of the past. The project envisages building a massive computer using high performance microprocessors …
A CHANCE discovery' by. virologists of Baylor college of, medicine in Houston, Texas, could stop life-threatening diarrhoea in children, dead in tracks. Led by Mary Estes, the virologists were actually investigating the parts of the virus when they stumbled on to how the viral particles infect human cells. "We found …
