A mysterious disease is attacking the pumpkin in US. For the second year in a row, the plague is striking pumpkins across New York, turning plant leaves yellow and causing the fruit to rot. The

There is a controversy raging in US the transplant world right now over which patients receive scarce organs. The Health and Human Services Dept. issued regulations in March requiring nationwide

Now, there's evidence that vitamin E is an effective weapon against heart disease. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they have shown that vitamin E protects mice against

A new study by Jeffrey Lotz, director of the Orthopedic Bioengineerig Laboratory, and colleagues at the University of Calgary suggests the culprit to back pain is often gradual, long-term damage. By

There is a way to head off resistance before it occurs. By reading the genetic codes of viruses as they mutate and evolve in actual patients, Robert M. Lloyd Jr., scientific director at Applied

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are bioengineering spinach's photosynthesis centers, adapting them to serve as ultratiny photodiodes. If all goes well, these devices will use photons to

Human skin : The FDA is about to approve commercial use of living tissue grown by two biotech outfits. Engineered skin will bring relief to the 4 million people who suffer from chronic skin ulcers

Scientists at Emory University's Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta have discovered a neuro-transmitter in the brain that helps control food intake and seems partially responsible for the

Many farmers in Kondapur, 100 kilometres west of Hyderabad lost everything by betting on cotton. Now, they are trying

Cement eating bacteria are among the main causes of the deterioration of bridges, roads and other structures. But their taste for concrete can be turned to good account : The same microbes may be