Troublemaking protein found

Breakthrough in fighting severe malaria among children

Food for thought

Vegetables, and not carbohydrates, should be the diet mantra of Americans

Nanotechnology can

Small is useful

TB knows colour?

Vitamin D deficiency weakens defence

Data doubled

Genetic information on avian influenza virus

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

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

Fish test

...for diabetes

Hooked on iron

New study stresses need to review treatment of hookworm

It's not fishy

Protein from fish scales

HapMap released

Makes for more effective cure of several diseases

Indigenous hormone kits

Cheap and stable at high temperature

Arsenic risk

Different for different people, suggests study

Cholera control

Through a group of viruses

Mother's touch

Cancerous virus

Researchers believe that hepatitis virus can cause cancer

Shaken and stirred

Report focuses on Orissa cyclone's mind-jolting fallout

Minorities yoked to spin on first AIDS vaccine trials