Some strains of the AIDS causing virus are developing resistance to whatever drugs are available

in his book, Biohazard , a defector from the Soviet germ-warfare programme, Kanatjan Alibekov, has written that Soviet researchers tried to turn HIV, the AIDS causing virus, into a

the Japanese government is considering revising its guidelines on gene therapy. The present rules, which were introduced in 1994, limits researchers to its use only for treatment of

According to United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) official, David Morton, the continuing famine in North Korea is comparable to the Ethiopian famine in the mid-1980s.

THE Japanese government is considering revising its guidelines on gene therapy. Current rules, introduced in 1994, allow only researchers to use gene therapy in the treatment of serious life

AIDS campaigners in Pakistan fear their struggle to educate fellow country people about the deadly disease faces new difficulties from radical clerics, now that the country moving towards

South Asian environmental experts and officials met in Nepal to discuss ways for regional cooperation to save the endangered tiger. Over 60 representatives from Bhutan, Nepal, India, Burma and

the ngo-aids cell functioning under the Centre for Community Medicine ( ccm ) at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences was suddenly closed down after its coordinator Shankar Chowdhary