Silk route to preservation

Protein in fibre can replace expensive ways to store drugs

Aspirin boosts accuracy

Known to hamper diagnosis, it helps detect colon cancer

Come together

Delving into the underworld of matter, scientists are coming up with miniaturised miracles

Heady spin-off

MONEYMAKERS

Dangerous make-up

A warning against indiscriminate selling and buying in a new fad: herbal drugs

Trials by violation

Combating cancer

Two new ways for speedy and painless cancer treatment

Gluttony on vaccine

Peppered cure

Saving bucks and more

Research their souls

India's premier medical research agency wakes up to the question of ethics

Germ warfare

A new technique would help combat drug-resistant infections

The therapeutic tree

Different 'strokes'

Victims of ignorance

Surgery for blood pressure

Banned drug approved

CONGO

Armed for Alzheimer's

Life after death

Technology allows doctors to retrieve sperms from a dead man and impregnate his widow

Injurious to health

Stop smoking for a day and you may live to regret it, say researchers in the UK

Washed and cleaned

Can household detergents fight cancer? Canadian scientists think they can

Aid for AIDS

Cancer cure

Medical science may soon declare cancer, a disease that has eluded it for years, dead