Health & Medicine
Mosquito sex change can end dengue
25 May 2015
Males aren’t relevant — at least when it comes to disease transmission by mosquitoes. A mosquito sex-determining gene could help fight dengue fever, life science researchers say
Study links diabetes risk with heart rate
23 May 2015
Old bones can regain youthful healing Power
21 May 2015
Diabetes screening will overwhelm India's health system: study
20 May 2015
A large-scale diabetes screening programme underway in India will overwhelm the health system with false positive results, warn researchers
Researchers close to brewing morphine from sugar
20 May 2015
A research team has developed key steps needed to turn sugar-fed yeast for producing morphine and potentially other drugs, including antibiotics and anti-cancer therapeutics
Electronic cigarette flavorings alter lung function at the cellular level
19 May 2015
Certain flavourings used in electronic cigarette liquid may alter important cellular functions in lung tissue