Protein bodyguards
A protein found in almost all life-forms not only offers protection against toxins but also preverits errant behaviour in other proteins
Immune virus
HIV bringsscience down on its knees
The essence of being
Is it the soul? Is it the mind? Or is it something outside the confines of the human body? Author most elusive of mental phenomenon of consciousness
Gene blues
What determines a person's behaviour through the vicissitudes of life: genes, environment or both? There are many who believe that genetic …
A matter of the mind
Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day
Talk about delusions
Non-drug therapies are gaining ground worldwide to treat patients with schizophrenia
Small invasions
A new surgical technique that involving only small incisions has been used for removing a cyst from under the lung
Sharing love's labour
Why should women always take on the burden of contraception medications, and not men?
The nature of malaria
A new project is analysing several natural parameters that aid the spread of malaria
Making sex count
In the annals of modern medicine, medical research experiments have always been sexist. The tide is finally turning
New injectable male contraceptive
A styrene maleic anhydride 'plug' has few side-effects and is reversible.
