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Archeologists have unearthed the oldest wine-making facility ever found.
Groups developing a gel to protect women from HIV/Aids say they are moving ahead to develop the product that was hailed as "groundbreaking".
Researchers who discovered stem cells and the appetite hormone leptin are named in the 2010 Thomson Reuters predictions to win Nobel prizes.
Francis Collins, who helped map the human genome, did not get around to having his own genes analysed until last summer. And he was surprised.
The quest for a cream or gel to prevent Aids infection has narrowed to using powerful HIV pills that are already on the market, scientists say.
Doctors who surprised the world of Aids research with a study showing a vaccine prevented some HIV infections released their findings on Tuesday.
Saying the new H1N1 virus is ”unstoppable”, the World Health Organisation gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines
A top global health official predicted that up to a third of the world’s population could eventually become infected with the new H1N1 flu.
HIV/Aids vaccine researchers should move to smaller, more focused trials and dump any vaccines that do not show strong promise.
Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, the brother of assassinated president John F Kennedy and the elder statesman of American liberal politics, has a malignant brain tumour, his…
By crushing a widely used semiconductor into nanoparticles, researchers said this week they have created a compound that could lead to cleaner, more efficient refrigerators,…
Overeating disrupts entire networks of genes in the body, causing not only obesity, but diabetes and heart disease, in ways that may be possible to predict, researchers reported…
The United Nations has slashed its estimates of how many people are infected with HIV/Aids, from nearly 40-million to 33-million. In a report to be issued on Tuesday, the UN says…
A cold virus used to make an experimental HIV vaccine that was discontinued in September somehow may have caused volunteers to be more susceptible to Aids, the vaccine’s…
Fruit bats that roost in caves are apparently the source of Marburg virus, which causes a deadly hemorrhagic fever related to Ebola virus, researchers said on Tuesday. Tests of 1…
Researchers studying bird flu viruses said on Thursday they may have come up with a way to vaccinate people before a feared influenza pandemic. Experts have long said there is no…
Altruism, one of the most difficult human behaviors to define, can be detected in brain scans, United States researchers reported this week. They found activity in a specific…
Daydreaming seems to be the default setting of the human mind and certain brain regions are devoted to it, United States researchers reported on Friday. When people are given a…
African-Americans hoping to use DNA to find their roots may have to look harder than previously thought, researchers said on Thursday in a study they said shows Africans are too…
