Gene drug passes a test
New results from a study strongly suggests that one of the drugs developed from a search, Repifermin, spurs the growth of human skin, healing or partly healing some debilitating wounds that were
New results from a study strongly suggests that one of the drugs developed from a search, Repifermin, spurs the growth of human skin, healing or partly healing some debilitating wounds that were
For the first time in several centuries, a member of the primate order, the taxonomic group to which human beings belong, has become extinct, scientists say in a paper in the October issue of the
Flooding and landslides from Japan's worst torrential rains in at least a century have killed six people and prompted the authorities to urge almost 400,000 Japanese to leave their homes in the
Tests have failed to support a theory that the worldwide AIDS epidemic was touched off because an experimental oral polio vaccine used in Africa more than 40 years ago was made from chimpanzee
With memories of postwar hunger still painfully sharp, the Japanese government approved in 1963 an ambitious plan to drain a saltwater lake surronding Daikon Island to create rice paddied. But after
European and North American groups are adivising Africans to be wary of agricultral biotechnology. But scientific evidence disproves their claims that enhanced crops are anything but safe. And if we
Researchers in Holland are questioning the safety of a practice that has been widely endorsed by cancer experts in the United States:prescribing the drug tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer in healthy
At least 50,000 people are homeless after a tidal surge flooded Bangladesh's Sandwip Island last
The sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk is not just another tragic loss of life at sea. It added two more nuclear reactors, and perhaps nuclear warheads as well, to the more than half dozen
The first national advertising campaign for Stonyfield Farm Inc.-an American company that sells yogurt takes on a more serious tone and centers on celebrities who are advocates of environmental