The great sexual continuum: What Pinki teaches us all
These issues speak of the sexuality ignorance prevailing in the world, and the need of the hour to accept the other forms off sexuality other than female or male.
Hermaphroditism is a sex development disorder in which a person birthed can have [...]
Medical report claims Pinki is a ‘male pseudohermaphrodite’
Medical report claims Pinki is a ‘male pseudohermaphrodite’. Pinki Pramanik ‘incapable of rape’, gets bail
The medical report of Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik hints that she is a rare case of “male pseudohermaphroditism”, [...]
Indian scientists in team that sequenced tomato genome
In what is considered a major step forward in biotechnology research, a group of 300 scientists from across the world, including India, have sequenced the genome of tomato.
The achievement is expected to lower the costs and speed up efforts [...]
Good cholesterol may not be what keeps the heart healthy
By themselves, higher levels of HDL don’t explain lower cardiovascular risk
Some shine may have worn off “good” cholesterol’s halo. A new genetics study shows that merely raising levels of high-density lipoprotein — also known as [...]
Home therapy is key to ‘normal life’ with HAE
People with a rare genetic condition called hereditary angioedema (HAE) can lead a normal life with home therapy, experts say.
Unexplained swellings, excruciating pain and days spent vomiting or in bed.
These were the kind of symptoms Rachel [...]
Tracking diseases from anthrax to cholera
Scientists’ ability to track deadly pathogens got an unexpected and enormous boost from the race to sequence the human DNA blueprint, or genome. Technologies developed at great expense for human sequencing can now spell out a bacterium’s [...]
No shortage of dangerous DNA
The genome of a 115-year-old woman is mined for secrets to healthy aging
A Dutch woman who lived to 115 years old credited her longevity to pickled herring, refraining from smoking and limiting alcohol. But scientists are looking to the woman’s [...]
Bony bacteria
New species builds hard structures inside cells
Scientists have discovered skeletons in the cyanobacterial closet. A never-before-seen species of cyanobacterium loads its cells with little bonelike lumps that may act as ballast, helping to [...]
What’s on your genes?
These two mice are genetically identical and exactly the same age. Each mouse’s mother received a different, specialized diet, which switched on or off chemical clusters called methyl groups that reside near genes. Flipping these genetic [...]
Glow kitties
This glowing kitty not only tells scientists their experiment worked but also may help them find a way to fight a feline disease. Credit: Mayo Clinic
Just in time for Halloween, a team of scientists has introduced a new breed of kittens that [...]
