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Green Signal To Human-Animal Embryo

...he remaining 0.1% could be anything from rabbit to cow to pig to sheep. This cybrid will be used to produce stem cells which will eventually grow into different types of cells. This can be further used in the study of understanding and treatment for diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cystic fibrosis...

EU to Look at Cloned Meat Safety

...s; a calf grown from an embryo taken from a cloned cow was recently born on a British farm. At the time, the UK's environment department said no health and welfare rules had been broken, but its food watchdog said more discussions were needed to assess legal requirements relating to offspring of cloned...

Harbinger of Hope for Kala Azar Victims of Bihar

...d fly that transmits the disease multiplies in the cow dung that villagers use liberally to plaster their shanties or as cow dung cakes for fuel. The flies survive on the sap in banana and bamboo groves and the decomposed cow...

EU Considers Allowing Cloned Meat, Milk on Market

...ency revealed in January that the calf of a cloned cow was being raised on a UK farm. After food safety officials from the 27 member states held urgent talks on the matter, a decision was reached that milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring should be considered in the same way as any othe...

South African Farmers Turn to Organic Farming

...ising inputs costs. Nourished by compost made of cow manure, bird droppings, mulched apple and other natural ingredients, the soil now boasts a richer moister texture, and, Prevost maintains, his fruit has "better legs" to withstand extreme weather. Fruit farmers complain of mildew on grapes from un-...

Chondroitin may Not Have Any Beneficial Effect on Arthritis, New Study Says

...s; chondroitin supplements are generally made from cow cartilage. In recent years, glucosamine and chondroitin have been widely promoted as a treatment for osteoarthritis.While arthritis means inflammation of the joints, and is the name given to a group of over 200 diseases, osteoarthritis (OA) is the m...

A Village in Madhya Pradesh Achieves Total Sanitation

... are no flying plastic bags, no unwanted paper, no cow dung scattered on the streets that look immaculately clean. The populace, which consists of mainly Kushwah and Brahmin communities, depends mainly on agriculture for sustenance. And it's not just external cleanliness that the around 1,950 villagers...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Heath Threat

...d on traditional fuels such as firewood, charcoal, cow dung etc for cooking and heating. This produces a large amount of smoke and other air pollutant within the confines of the home resulting in high exposure. It is mainly the women and children who are mainly affected by his. Exposure to the pollutan...

Vaccine Prevents Prion Disease in Mice

...ice from developing a brain disease similar to mad cow disease, according to research that will be presen..., 2007. Prion diseases, which include scrapie, mad cow disease, and chronic wasting disease, are fatal and there is no treatment or cure. The disease spr...

Environmental Problems Take Huge Toll of Lives Across the Globe

...ed by the burning of so-called solid fuels - wood, cow dung or coal for cooking, the WHO said. WHO said its results were based on 2002 data from national health authorities, reviews of scientific literature and expert surveys. It also encompasses data collected by the WHO. But WHO officials stresse...

Warning Over Drug-resistant Diseases in EU

...iseases such as variant-CJD (the human form of mad cow disease) and the respiratory illness SARS, the threat of influensa and drug resistant strains of tuberculosis put the health of EU citizens at risk. And rising rates of so-called "healthcare-associated infections" caused by drug resistant microbes ...

Bihar Under the Grip of Kala Azar

...d fly that transmits the disease multiplies in the cow dung villagers use liberally to plaster their shanties or as cow dung cakes for fuel. The flies survive on the sap in banana and bamboo groves and the decomposed c...

Vaccine Prevents Prion Disease in Mice

...ice from developing a brain disease similar to mad cow disease, according to research that will be presen..., 2007. Prion diseases, which include scrapie, mad cow disease, and chronic wasting disease, are fatal and there is no treatment or cure. The disease spr...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Health Threat

...d on traditional fuels such as firewood, charcoal, cow dung etc for cooking and heating. This produces a large amount of smoke and other air pollutant within the confines of the home resulting in high exposure. It is mainly the women and children who are mainly affected by his. Exposure to the pollutan...

Shambu With Bovine TB Being Prevented from Slaughter

...e TB. For a country slowly recovering from the mad cow disease that took a heavy toll of the country's economy and prestige, sending the six-year-old Freisian bull to the slaughterhouse is but a logical step. But the "devout" Hindus of Carmarthenshire, a tiny hamlet in Wales in Great Britain, are no...

Proteins Behind Mad Cow Disease may Protect Against Alzheimer's

... researchers suggests that proteins that cause mad cow disease may be exploited to protect against Alzhei...ts for the disease. In the human version of mad cow disease called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the infectious prions corrupt the normal ve...

Indian Researcher Finds Human Urine Grows Better Fish Food

...tried rearing the plankton in various cocktails of cow urine, vermin compost, poultry droppings and cow dung, all of which are commonly used in fish farming in regions where chemical fertilizers are not a...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...rvice in the public sector and as a potential cash cow in the private sector. Instead, it should be treated as an independent specialty in its own right. Organ donation is not often thought of as a part of medical emergency service provision but it is easy to see how the casualty department can actuall...

Wonder Cow Produces Milk Despite Being a Virgin!

Believe it or not, Kapila, an impregnated cow of Sarnagat in Dabra Tehsil of Gwalior District ha... Parminder Singh, Kapilas caretaker, says: "This cow is a God sent. Since the time it has come, there is peace at home and we have been profiting. Whenev...

New Diagnostic Test for Mad Cow Disease Developed

...sts have developed a new technique to diagnose mad cow disease in humans. Researchers at Edinburgh University say that the currently available screening process for the brain condition is not completely reliable, and causes specialists to wrongly tell people that they are suffering from variant Creut...

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