Aye for an eye
Transplanting light-sensitive cells of aborted human foetuses into retinas of blind adults can enable them to see again
Stairway to health
Want a healthy heart, a thin wasteline and more ? Then ignore elevators and escalators, and use stairs instead
Toying with the unborn
Is it right to experiment with the foetus? The US preparesfor another )8 controversial medical experiment
Nigeria’s missing virus hunters: University decline robs country of virologists
Nigeria should create an enabling environment for scientists to function effectively and maximally
What elephants teach us about cancer prevention
Elephants naturally avoid cancer after 55 million years of evolution. Scientists are studying if they can extract lessons that could help people
Digital diagnosis: intelligent machines do a better job than humans
Humans can only do so much when it comes to diagnosing a patient. So why not let machines take over? They learn faster …
Unravelling the Bombay plague
Room 000: Narratives Of The Bombay Plague is the story of the plague that killed thousands in Mumbai in the late 1890s. Very little was known …
Adding a new dimension to medical imaging
A new computer software that converts a two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional one is expected to radically transform medical science.
Selling God's secrets
After 20 years of scepticism, increasing sales have finally convinced industries that genetic engineering holds the key to the future.
Waking up livers with foetal cells
Scientists say foetal liver cells injected into patients suffering from severe liver failure can regenerate the damaged organ
Ceramic coat makes AIDS drug more efficient
Scientists claim a new mode of administering drugs would strip the main AIDS drug -- Azidothymidine (AZT) -- of its side-effects.
Serum found to curb lung cancer
Tests on mice show that a hormonal antibody inhibits the growth of turnours, giving rise to hopes for a vaccine to treat lung cancer.
Innocent humans as guinea pigs
Documents have revealed that the US clandestinely conducted several radioactivity experiments on unsuspecting patients.
Coalition lor a cause
US activists demand a say in the government's modus operandi in using funds for breast cancer research
Return of the drug
Anti- and pro-lobbies lock their horns over the renewed use of the much maligned drug thalidomide
Confining cancer
Scientists have found a gene that checks the spread of prostate cancer to other parts of the body
Visionary
Blind terror: 80 per cent of the world's sightless are in the developing world, and the number will double by the turn of the century. Carl …
Can the Grim Reaper wait, please?
A timeless dream: eternal youth, unblemished by illness. The search for the font of immortality has taken a late 20th century turn into what …
Small invasions
A new surgical technique that involving only small incisions has been used for removing a cyst from under the lung
There for you to see
The world's first computerised library of human anatomy has been created. Medics and medical enthusiasts can now 'virtually' handle a man or woman'…
Vice versa works
Medical researchers have used some smart molecular jugglery to target cells that lack the p53 molecule or cancer cells, to fight the scourge
Lifting heart's burden
Heart diseases have been on the rise in the recent past but now a new research says that the trends can be reversed
Bovine benefit
Chromaffin cells derived from the adrenal glands of cows have been made to secrete painkillers that have brought relief to six terminally ill patients
Introns: the war of hypotheses
Two groups experiment to uphold the tenability of one theory of genesis of introns over another, yet fail to resolve the basic questions …
Chromosomal close-ups
Discovery of a new mode of dosage compensation -- that is, how the sexes are compensated for their reduced dosage of chromosome linked genes -- …