Winning laurels

A new method for discovering important chemicals that could damage the nervous system gains a US patent for its inventors

Whale of a problem

The slippery killer

It is going to require something more than just drugs to deal with HIV, say scientists

Super aspirin makes a debut

For those suffering with heart diseases, scientists just found drugs that are more effective than aspirin

Ecstasy rashes

Mad about beef

The threat over mad cow disease resurfaces yet again in Europe

Sure Killer

The world's most feared virus, Ebola, makes a comeback in Uganda

Wreaking havoc

Heat quencher

Striking at the heart

Pollution causes heart attack

Foot in mouth

Foot in mouth disease

Only a sea change in farming techniques will help save the European agricultural sector from disasters like the foot-and-mouth disease

In a spot

Ebola threatens gorillas

In denial

Mystery fever kills hundreds; government clueless

Migratory birds expert Taej Mundkur on bird flu

Taej Mundkur, an expert on migratory birds, tells Padmaparna Ghosh that bird flu spreads through respiratory route , and not just the faecal route.…

Avian returns

Bird flu resurfaces, exposes weakness of testing system

Bytes

Protein lack

Troubled exchange

Industry wants alien shrimp

A good way to spend money

The cell regulator

GMs renegade genes

Ecological costs of a GM plant are higher than benefits

Breach in drug resistance

New synthetic compound works differently on malaria