Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace
... infect humans, birds, mosquitoes, horses and some other mammals. West Nile virus (WNV) is a potentially...breast feed. In many cases there are no symptoms other than fever. In other cases Symptoms include fever, headache, tiredness, and body aches, occasionally...Strange Sex Life of Mole-rats may Provide Clues About Human Infertility
...minance over the colony by, literally, pushing the other members of the colony around. She shoves them to s... reversible, said Dr Faulkes. When the queen died, other non-breeding but high-rank females fought for dominance. The winner became the new queen and rapidly...Sea Snail Venom Paves Way for Potent New Painkiller
...people who suffer from various types of cancer and other very serious diseases. It is a very powerful drug, as it was created to lessen chronic pains in individuals that no longer responded to morphine therapy. The treatment is expected to block the calcium channels of the nerves that transmit pain signa...Translating Structure into Function
...om its structure. If their new strategy works with other enzymes, it should become a potent tool to determine how key enzymes work in the body. And since enzyme action is crucial to disease, the technique opens an efficient route to drug discovery, Shoichet say. Schoichet a professor of pharmaceutical ch...Napoleon Love Letter Seduces Bidders at Manuscript Auction
...dent India. "It is wrong to ruffle Muslim or any other person's feelings," Gandhi said in the seven-page ... Along with the Napoleon and Newton manuscripts, other notables whose letters were on offer included J.R.R. Tolkien, Oliver Cromwell, Winston Churchill, Ch...Mira Nair Takes AIDS Message to Indian Cinema Halls
...a in terms of the lack of awareness and stigma and other things associated with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)," the magnitude of India's AIDS epidemic could equal that of Africa in a few years. The director, who now lives in Uganda, knows the problem firsthand. Figures of a 2006 UN study show th...Test-tube Babies: Mood Swings are Key to Fertility Choice
...opmental problems than twins or triplets. On the other hand, multiple embryo implants, despite this risk, offer a statistically higher chance of a pregnancy compared to a single embryo transfer. Canadian doctors at the London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario, carried out research into the emot...Daily Dose of Dark Chocolate Helps the Heart: Study
...duce blood pressure without causing weight gain or other side effects , according to a study published Tues...es should examine the effects of dark chocolate in other populations and look at results over a longer period....US Traveler With Deadly TB Has Less Serious Strain
...t. The doctor also said that if Speaker infected other people, "we now have some drugs available to try to treat them and prevent them from developing TB." Speaker was the first person in more than four decades to be placed under mandatory isolation by US health authorities, who feared he suffered the ...Complementary Therapy may Reduce Pregnancy Chances in Women
...ter inform them both of their effectiveness and of other options for achieving pregnancy and reducing the s...ion on whether or not to use CATs as compared with other available options. We are currently developing brief coping interventions that may be more appealing...Mother Donates Eggs So Daughter can Give Birth
...d a stage where we can offer the same treatment to other women who may have children with problems of infertility." "With egg freezing we can offer women who do not have yet have a partner a chance of having children. For example, a lady in her early 30s can decide to freeze her eggs and have a child lat...China Fears Show Food Export Quality Key: WHO Official
...nsafe for US consumers. Reports of problems with other Chinese goods has put the spotlight on the quality of China's exports generally. Omi said food exporting countries must adopt self-regulation by introducing tough laws and efficient law enforcement agencies. "There is a need to establish tough la...Stray Kerala Dogs Face Keyhole Surgery to Control Birth Rate
...udes medicine, surgery equipment, vaccinations and other expenses. For the first phase, a financial assi...amme. According to a study done in Hyderabad and other places, this is the best way to control the birth of dogs....UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics
...s no explanation at this stage why theyre doctors, other than that its a perfect cover, a police official said, on condition of anonymity. It seems at odds with their profession, which is to look after people. Abhay Chopada, a colorectal surgeon who emigrated from India in 1994, said that the suspects sh...Humans are Gobbling Up a Quarter of Nature's Resources, Reveals Study
...y humans, and the rest was used up in a variety of other ways related to industrialisation, such as transport, the study revealed. According to the study, the Earth can just about cope if the future needs are met by producing food more efficiently, but things could get worse, "if plants like palm oil and...Yawning Actually Helps You Keep Awake
...ally or through their mouths yawned while watching other people yawn, while none of those told to breathe through their noses yawned. The researchers also found that subjects who held a cold pack to their forehead did not catch yawns from the film, while those who held a warm or room-temperature pack yawne...Boeing Unveils 'green' Dreamliner Passenger Jet
...icked by succeeding airplanes." The Dreamliner's other innovations include greater levels of comfort for passengers, with higher humidity levels within the cabin expected to reduce passenger dehydration. Boeing, which aims to build 2,000 Dreamliners over the next two decades, has so far received 634 or...FDA Extends GRAS Approval Listex to All Food Products
...afe and has no impact on taste, smell, colour, and other physical properties of treated products. Bacteriophages ('phage') are the most abundant micro-organisms on earth. Fresh water and seawater can contain as many as 1 billion phages per ml, while in fresh and processed meat and meat products, more tha...Cognitive Test Takers and Score Variation
...tic marker in their own right. For example, he and other cognitive psychologists are discussing whether wilder fluctuations within one persons test scores are an early warning of mental decline....Harnessing Immune System Power Heralds Next Era of Cancer Treatment
... and infused into patients where they will trigger other immune cells to seek out and destroy cancer. "Tumours avoid immune attack by convincing the immune system that they are normal, like a wolf in sheep's clothing," said Bramson. "Our strategies are designed to teach the immune system how to spot th...