Research & Development

Ayurvedic medicines, a form of traditional medicine and health philosophy that relies mainly on herbal products, contain unacceptable levels of toxic metals, researchers warn in a report released Tuesday.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of radiationdefine treatment for spinach and lettuce. They are of the view that this technique helps to control harmful bacteria and other pathogens.

Scientists at Nottingham Trent University in Britain said they are developing a machine that can rapidly diagnose different types of bird flu, including the extremely infectious H5N1 bird flu virus, also known as Avian influenza.

There is encouraging news for leukaemia patients. The tests GlaxoSmithKline PLC had been conducting with its experimental leukaemia drug have shown positive results. These results have been found in patients who did not respond well to any other treatment.

With stem cell research reaching new heights day by day, the recent and one of the widely welcomed piece of news which is flashing in our faces is, the fact that the day of having user specific, personalized, stem cells is no more a distant dream.

A new research published in the journal ‘Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association’ says that scientists have been able to grow heart blood vessels in mice. These are similar to the ones that the cardiacdefine surgeons create with by pass operations.

An experimental AIDS vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health, which was all set to be tested on a large scale, has come a cropper, reason being apprehensions about the merits of proceeding with the experiment. The decision to call of the proposed study was taken at an individual level, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Even though stem cell therapy has been around for a while in the laboratories, the first embryonic stem cell therapy happened only last month. Despite the controversy that embryonic stem cell therapy has managed to generate, this mode of treatment is fast gaining acceptance among members of the medical community as well as people in general. Here is the lowdown on stem cell therapy in general.