As more persons succumbed to dropsy in the Capital after comsuming adulterated mustard oil, five more states--UP, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa and Assam--on Friday banned the sale of mustard

Experts have warned that toxic argemone oil, used for adulterating mustard oil, can find a passage into the body not just through food, but even by a friendly massage.

Makoto Kuroo and his group from the Institute of Neuroscience has discovered that mice suffer from human like symptoms of aging when a single specific gene is disrupted. Mice born without a

A group at Nippon Medical School report success with a two stage method of gene insertion, in which two vectors are used in succession to get the gene into the target cell with higher precision. The

The Ministry of Health and Welfare in Japan is working on safety guidelines for pharmaceuticals produced from cloned animals. The move is in response to growing worldwide activities aimed at

On any given day, 20,000 persons-- or ten trainloads of people --equivalent to 02 per cent of Mumbai's population is in the grip of schizophrenia. "Mercifully, 90 per cent of them recover and go on

Last week, a U.S. Federal Drug Administration advisory panel recommended that the agency approve a new drug called Enbrel. The week before, the full FDA had given the nod to another anti-rheumatoid

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the Massachussetts-based biotechnology company, announced positive clinical trials data for a new HIV protease inhibitor, Agenerase, and signalled its intention to apply for

Growing number of people are stepping daily into a potential minefield of substances loosely referred to as dietary supplements, many of which have little or nothing to do with the components of

Genentech Inc. won unusually swift U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to market its breast cancer drug, Herceptin, the first rifleshot attack on underlying causes of the disease. The drug,