Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

In Short

Chikungunya not fatal: doctors

Cholera epidemic in Angola on the rise

Ebola outbreak in Congo

UK faces mysterious bee disease

Indonesian government bans backyard poultry

Influenza on the move

Science and Technology - Briefs

Ethics on trial

Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug,…

In Short

Frozen lakes home for influenza virus

Yellow fever outbreak feared in Ivory Coast

Bird flu alert sounded in Siliguri

In Court

Diseases rescue monkeys in Malaysia

Unmasking aerosols

Forget health impacts, tiny particles floating in the air are altering regional climates and affecting monsoon patterns and agricultural yield. …

Wahtech

But what has the state done?

Wah India

Arsenic

The real pandemic

The dark zone

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater,…

Indian researchers decode function of non-coding part of human genome

Simple sequence repeats punctuate genome; discovery will help improve gene therapy