Prunes help regulate bowels?
4 July 2012 8:54 AM ISTThe modern life takes a toll on our bodies in ways we do not even notice. Approximately 20 per cent of the world’s population suffers from...
UK sets 2013 date to test pilot-less fighters
4 July 2012 7:52 AM ISTPilot-less fighter planes have come a step closer to reality as British Aerospace revealed that it would test such a new fighter jet next year.It is...
Creating new eyes in a dish
4 July 2012 6:38 AM ISTIn a big step forward for regenerative medicine and stem cell research, scientists at the Chennai-based Sankara Nethralaya have developed a way of...
Assam cleft-lip centre helps neighbours
25 Jun 2012 6:48 AM ISTAfter performing corrective surgeries on over 6,000 children in the past two years, NGO Operation Smile India's Comprehensive Cleft Care Centre here...
Breaking the code
22 Jun 2012 9:05 AM ISTScientists will gather from Bangalore to Texas on Saturday to honour British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer of the modern computer whose...
AIIMS, IIT to study stress in doctors
18 Jun 2012 6:23 AM ISTThe AIIMS Trauma Centre has joined hands with IIT-Delhi to determine the stress level in doctors and nurses managing emergency cases.The study is...
Dads get baby bumps too: study
16 Jun 2012 2:44 PM ISTWeight gain by new mothers is well documented but just ahead of Father's Day a new research in the UK has claimed that dads put on around ten kgs...
Octogenarian gets first ‘no-cut’ valve implant
16 Jun 2012 6:12 AM ISTIn a development that comes as a good news for elderly patients with heart ailments, doctors at a Gurgaon hospital have performed India’s first ‘no...
10-year-old gets blood vessel from stem cells
15 Jun 2012 8:19 AM ISTFor the first time, scientists led by an Indian-origin researcher have successfully replaced a major blood vessel in a 10-year-old girl with a vein...
Stem cells: medical magic
14 Jun 2012 8:35 AM ISTSimran Kaur, 42, was suffering from cerebellar ataxias, a rare genetic disorder, which left her wheelchair bound, incontinent, with slurred speech and...
Rooting out cervical cancer
13 Jun 2012 1:27 PM ISTA scientific discovery about where and how cervical cancer takes root in the body has resolved a decades-long mystery and could lead to even better...
China breeds calf to produce low-lactose milk
12 Jun 2012 7:37 AM ISTChinese scientists claimed to have bred the world's first genetically-modified calf that would produce low-lactose milk in two years, state media said...
