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Cancer
Cancer, who cares!
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2009
Images of a scorpion and lungs X-ray havent quite succeeded in keeping people away from cigarettes or chewing tobacco (gutka). Some interpret the scorpions image as a new brand, zodiac symbol or a decorative add-on, a survey in Mumbai has found. The lungs X-ray image was construed as waterfall, butterfly and even the small intestine. These findings establish the health ministrys notification to tobacco companies to carry pictorial warnings showing the ill effects of tobacco stand ineffectual.
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
biology
Small lever wins gold
On the horns of p53
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
What would you choose? Stem cells or cancer?
what if the beauty experts were to devise a skin cream that cures all pimples with a single dab? Women try it and are happy at first. One dab and the pimples go but so does the glow of the skin, they realize gradually. What do they do now? Let the rashes be or make do without a glowing skin?
Science & Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
evolution
Learn to live with it
Me likes what me likes
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
Anaemic people might not get what they need from folic acid supplements
Faecal detection of cancer
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2009
CHANDAN CHAKRABORTY is an oncologist
with a practice in Kolkata. He specializes
in cancers of the colon and rectum.
During a conversation about his daily
endeavours, he mentioned an occupational
hazard: "My patients want to
know if they have cancer but the ordeal
of going through colonscopy is too
much for them. Imagine sticking a camera
with light bulbs into their rectum.
This allows the doctor to check the walls
of the rectum for abnormal cell growth.
It is not painful but requires the patient
Science
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2009
PLANT SCIENCES
Never too late
Flowers are more resilient
than they appear. They
shoot up against all odds.
The credit goes to genetic
matter called microRNA that
inhibit protein formation
crucial to flowering in
Drug curdling problem solved
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
Cancer, HIV medicines may get extended shelf life
Menadione v microtubule
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2009
The vitamin sabotages cancer cells' infrastructure for division
vitamin K3 or menadione, as it is chemically known, shows property of an anti-cancer agent. Its mechanism of action was as yet unexplored. Researchers from University of Calcutta used the vitamin in cultures of human cervical and oral epithelial cancer cells to know its role.
Virus to kill cancer
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2009
Virotherapy now works
A cancer treatment method, called virotherapy, involves reprogramming viruses to attack cancer cells in the body.
But this method wasn't quite helping scientists, simply because the viruses weren't doing what was expected of them: to get virulent and go for
the kill. Instead, they lay weak in the cancer cells.
Researchers from Oxford University conducted an experiment and suggested a way out. Ryan Cawood at the university's department of clinical
