Survivor Bacteria

Sleepsmart, learn easy

Without adequate sleep, new skills may not get encoded into the brain's memory circuits

Mind your language

How the brain helps you to understand language

Early memory loss

Cure for ebola

Better transplants

Cleanly this means trouble!

Hormone-rich shampoos make some girls enter puberty early

Brainy findings

Weakening brain cells affect the output of the nerve cell

Sweet lumps

Diabetes and obesity are related

AIDS vaccine delivers

Cellular attack against the virus works

Fowl play

Usage of antibiotics in farm animals could be making human microbes drug-resistant

PQQ

First vitamin found in 55 years?

Shot of hope

A malaria vaccine shows encouraging results in trials

Succour for AIDS-hit

Korean cloning expert quits

We should be worried

Mother could be passing on toxins through breast milk

Avian trouble

Influenza virus in Asia fast developing drug resistance

India's HIV toll

NACO, UNAIDS try figuring

Corruption raises cost of healthcare by 25%: Samiran Nundy

Leading gastroenterologist Samiran Nundyco-editor of Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India, spoke to Down To Earth about the …

Very fat bill: Obesity Research

64 per cent of Americans are obese. This is costing the nation a pretty weighty penny. According to the study -- State-Level Estimates of Annual …

Surgery risks are disproportionately high for women in Africa: New study

There’s a need for country-specific and condition-specific research into women’s surgical care and ways to improve these outcomes on …

AI helps identify bat species suspected of carrying Nipah virus

Based on traits of bats to carry the virus, researchers have pointed out that more bat species in India may be reservoirs of Nipah than the only …

Suffocating tragedy

There is no scientific consensus on the cause of encephalitis that has been claiming lives every year in the Gorakhpur region since 1978. But an …

Overabundance of a protein one of the causes of Parkinson’s disease: study

Parkinson’s disease results in declining physical functions, most noticeable of them being uncontrollable tremors

Animal testing need not be repeated for registration of drugs in India

Animal rights activists had been demanding that the duplication of animal tests must be stopped