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| Racist medicine |
| Era of colour-coded drugs begins, reports Prasun Chaudhuri |
| Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X could not escape its tentacles. Nelson Mandela barely survived its ravages. And Adolf Hitler wiped out millions of lives using it as an excuse. The biology of racial discrimination, kept under wraps for years, casts off its ugly hood once again. And this time it h... |
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| Molecular tinkering |
| For four years, inventing a new toilet bowl freshener has been a sideline pursuit for Michael Lefenfeld, a 25-year-old graduate student in molecular e
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| Threats to the Himalayas |
| What will happen if millions of gallons of water and rock swamp the human settlements in the valleys of the Himalayas? Such a future looms large on th
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| Most accurate clock designed |
| A clock that’s 1,000 times more accurate than all its previous avatars has been built by the scientists at the department of quantum engineering
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| Brand new terror |
The new breed of terrorists behind the London bombings
are techno-experts who have become skilled in evading
the electronic surveillance methods used by Western
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| QED: Gender bias in labs
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The better half of mankind is not well off as far as scientific and technological areas are concerned. Women are, no doubt, passing out with degrees in science and technology every year in good numbers. But that is when they start facing problems. Get
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Scandal that shook medicine
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The drug trial Miriam Shuchman Random House; $ 24.95... |
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The day they stop making formula milk is the day I stop
having babies,” says Marilyn. Susan, who started
using formula 10 days after her baby was born, says: “I
felt like a failure, I felt embarrassed, I thought everyone
was looking at me, ... | 
