Another shot for taxol

An ancient vice

The ancients were right

Overdose

Clipped wings

Checking bad behaviour

DRUG BAN

Double attack

Pay after cure

Assembled on a chip

Nanolab can be very useful in formulating several compounds cheaply

Striking home

A polymer-based drug shows promise in cleaning cholesterol

Fat burner

UNITED NATIONS

Relief in the joints

This soap stinks

Pfizer cries unfair

Venom code

Taking the wrong anti-venom could be dangerous too

June 30, 2003: The day conservation policy could have changed

Usually, the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) does manage to stick to its guns in the face of adversity, or even rationality. But …

New government must work to improve health infrastructure

India’s GDP for health is less than 1.5 per cent and is one of the lowest in the world

The new '100% effective' Ebola vaccine owes a debt to the scientists who beat smallpox

The final trials of the first effective Ebola vaccine show it's safe to use against an outbreak

Caught between athletes and technology

Technology is taking sports to new highs, triggering a debate on whether competitions should be between people or between machines.

The do-it-all drug

Melatonin, the soporofic wonder drug seems to have taken the US by storm. Though the drug promises a lot, it has its sceptics. Should consumers …

Makes more sense

Pharmaceutical companies are trying to develop drugs to combatfatal diseases by using the uptil now ignored part of DNWs structure

Taming the tumours

Two new drugs being developed in the US show a lot of promise in halting the growth of tumours

Does science need spiritualism?

At the time of Independence, India saw 'big' science and technology as the only way ahead. Perhaps with good reason. Fifty-odd years later, though,…