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CITES CoP 2019: Critically endangered saiga antelope not to get highest protection

Instead of being placed in Appendix I of CITES, a voluntary moratorium by saiga range states not to export the antelope’s horn has now been …

Food India: Six recipes to beat the heat

DTE brings you some recipes from our foodbook; they are soothing for the summers, high on nutrition, even medicinal. Here's wishing you …

Insect stings inspire syringe-needle designs

Indian and interntaional scientists say that bee and wasp sting mechanism could help in developing a syringe-needle system, which can be used in …

Explained: The cancer therapy that got two immunologists a Nobel

The immunologists’ immune checkpoint therapy has revolutionised cancer treatment

Traditional medicine classified for the first time

The World Health Organization classified traditional medicine in International Classification of Diseases (ICD -11), a system that allows …

Fungus around toe nails can kill bacteria that cause life threatening infections

Scientists have found that the fungus is a source of novel antibiotics which inhibit the growth of bacteria

Herb to the rescue

Operation Himalayan yew

Taxol-producing fungus found in Montana woods

A new species of fungus, which can produce taxol, the drug used to treat ovarian cancer, promises to be a boon for women all over the world.

Gossamer gifts

Breast milk is best milk

Anti-carcinogenic properties of breast milk come to light

Craft of the graft

A plastic tube can be used to insert a graft into blood vessels, circumventing the need for bypass surgery

Childish foibles

Infected food and unhygienic feeding habits lead to a high incidence of infantile diarrhoea

Down the nuclear trail

Incidence of Down's syndrome linked to fallout from nuclear weapons testing

Saved by a cuppa cha

Green tea could prevent you from becoming liverish and weak-hearted

Down to the bones

Mercilessly lethal osteoporosis - the withering of a body's bone mass - may finally have met its match

Drugged to sickness

The magic of tea

Hail inhaler

Doubts concerning the reliability of inhalers in controlling mild asthma have been put to rest as a recent study in the US has given beta-…

End of innocence

Two recently published American studies reveal that cytomegalovirus (CMV) can cause arterial blockages in infected individuals

East is best

Herbal healing

A hearty solution

Slitting the beating heart

Dutch surgeons show the way to carry out coronary bypass surgeries without using the heart-lung machine