Face your fears

Food allergy dictates eating low doses of the very food daily  

Rise of the mutants

Butterflies near Fukushima plant are developing abnormalities

Pills can break bone

Studies explain how drugs for asthma, diabetes cause osteoporosis

Teething adults

Amino acid called proline can regenerate decaying teeth

Faecal detection of cancer

Strengthening the fragile

Scientists have started taking osteoporosis more seriously

Poison aid

Salmonella can fight cancer

On the horns of p53

Bread’s problem protein

Scientists crack mystery of celiac disease, assure therapies

Traced, scanned, illuminated

Fear of invasive tests leads to a novel way of cancer detection  

A brewing scandal

Genetic barcodes show undisclosed ingredients in tea

Chemical warfare

Time to get new bed nets

Project nose

A mission to prevent mosquitoes from smelling out humans

Arsenic fixer identified

Knocking off the plant gene could check arsenic poisoning

Go wild

Ashwagandha that grows in the wild fights illness better

Cold chain to hit 45°C

Vaccines preserved in sugars greatly lower maintenance costs  

Infect the mosquitoes

Bacteria that can control malarial spread identified

Now, artificial blood cells

They can be potential drug carriers

Bee, a helper

Honeycomb glue can fight multi-drug resistant hospital bugs

Deadly deficiency

Lack of key enzyme in Asians, Africans weakens malaria fight