Could our genes be a vaccine for Aids?
Can we use evolution to our advantage in the fight against disease? Martin Ince speaks to Sir David Weatherall (pictured) about the potential of molecular medicine Evolution by natural selection is...
Can we use evolution to our advantage in the fight against disease? Martin Ince speaks to Sir David Weatherall (pictured) about the potential of molecular medicine Evolution by natural selection is...
Mapping Human History
Brussels, 11 February 2002 An international organisation is to be set up later this year to assist governments and health researchers in the developing world to negotiate better deals for drug access...
Compared with the carnage in New York, it was a small act of terrorism. Dayan Dawood, rector of Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, was heading back from the campus through the centre of town in...
Vitamin pills are a waste of money Vitamin pills are a waste of money and have no effect in combating disease, cancer or any other illness, while wider use of cholesterol-lowering drugs would reduce...
Globalization in World History
Globalisation and its Discontents
IgNobel Prizes
THENUMBER of young Australians working and studying in the Asia-Pacific region will rise significantly if initiatives gaining support are successful. Powerful voices have spoken out over the past...
Brussels, 13 Nov 2002 The European DataGrid (EDG) project, which promises scientists unprecedented computing power to tackle major challenges, such as modelling climate change or analysing genomic...
Inventors get more cash to plug brain drain Nesta, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has been given a grant of ?95 million by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport....
Brown cloud threatens Asia and Europe A team of international climatologists led by Nobel laureate Professor Paul Grutzen has said they have identified the 'Asian brown cloud' -- a 10 million square...
As the EUA conference gets under way in Bristol, David Jobbins reports on European integration Europe is rarely high on the agenda for British universities but 2003 is the exception. It is the crunch...
Buddhism
New Zealand universities are predicting growth of more than 20 per cent in international student numbers this year, due to a low exchange rate, agreements with Chinese universities and a flood of...