Science and Technology - Briefs
Diabetes plan staggers
National programme to combat the disease is inadequate
Plants have proteins
A case for producing less meat
Anti dose
Antibiotics lose favour with the pharmaceutical industry
Weak shield
Chickenpox vaccine fails to work in most children
Age no bar
Mercury can affect even adolescent brains
Drug resistance
How the gene responsible acts
Poorly nursed
Most Himachal mothers breastfeed for just two weeks
Mouse model
To study Down syndrome
Biased air pollutants
Increases due to global warming, claims study
Immunity divide
New vaccines against TB of little help in developing countries
Fungi fight malaria
Especially helpful against mosquitoes resistant to pesticides
Fish test
...for diabetes
South Asia