Biotech & pharma
Panacea Biotec develops Swine flu vaccine
03 Mar 2010
Stem cells rescue nerve cells by direct contact
22 Feb 2010
Genetic variant linked to biological ageing
19 Feb 2010
Scientists report breakthrough in HIV treatment
01 Feb 2010
US and British scientists claim to have grown a crystal that helped them unravel the structure of an enzyme called integrase, found in retroviruses like HIV.
Researchers create new 'smart' nanocapsule delivery system for use in protein therapy
21 Jan 2010
Nanocapsules are submicroscopic containers composed of an oily or aqueous core surrounded by a thin, permeable polymer membrane roughly several to tens of nanometers thick By Wileen Wong Kromhout
Australian-American-British trio share Nobel for medicine
05 Oct 2009
Elizabeth H Blackburn, Carol W Greider and Jack W Szostak have jointly won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work on `how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
Genomic analysis links modern Indians to two ancestral populations
25 Sep 2009
New genomic research by scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad and the Harvard Medical School in the US has revealed that nearly all Indians carry genomic contributions from two distinct ancestral populations.
Malignant signature may help identify patients likely to respond to therapy
09 Sep 2009
A molecular signature that helps account for the aggressive behavior of a variety of cancers such as pancreatic, breast and melanoma may also predict the likelihood of successful treatment with a particular anti-cancer drug. By Steve Benowitz, director of communications, Cancer Centre, University of California, San Diego
Malignant signature may help identify patients likely to respond to therapy
09 Sep 2009
A molecular signature that helps account for the aggressive behavior of a variety of cancers such as pancreatic, breast and melanoma may also predict the likelihood of successful treatment with a particular anti-cancer drug. By Steve Benowitz, director of communications, Cancer Centre, University of California, San Diego
Glenmark, Forest drug trial for COPD fails
19 Aug 2009
Scientists succeed in decoding complex HIV genome structure
07 Aug 2009
A team of US scientists has made a breakthrough in decoding the structure of an entire HIV genome for the first time