Health Sciences and Technology News

A cup of black tea could be the next line of defence in the threat of bio-terrorism according to new international research.

A team led by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved.

A Canada-U.S. research team has solved a major genetic mystery: How a protein in some people's DNA guards them against killer immune diseases such as HIV.

MIT researchers have explained why two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus were critical for viral transmission in humans during the 1918 pandemic outbreak that killed at least 50 million people. mortality rate.

As concern about drug-resistant bacteria grows, one novel approach under way at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks to thwart the bug without a drug by taking a cue from nature.

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which are harmless individually in small doses, can together be a dangerous cocktail.

Scientists at the University of York have characterised an important new step in the mechanism used by bacteria to evade our immune system.

MIT researchers have explained why two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus were critical for viral transmission in humans during the 1918 pandemic outbreak that killed at least 50 million people.

When it comes to Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure from polycarbonate plastic bottles, it's not whether the container is new or old but the liquid's temperature that has the most impact on how much BPA is released.

Researchers at Griffith University Institute for Glycomics, Queensland led by Professor Mark von Itzstein have developed a technique to 'crack-the-code' of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus.