How frog embryos could help fight disease

Scientists have used a new X-ray method to record a living frog embryo's internal structure and cell movement. Scientists at Northwestern University and the Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie in Germany, in collaboration with the Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, X-rayed an embryo during gastrulation, the period when its hundreds of cells ...

Chinese may have practised agriculture before advent of rice cultivation 5000 yrs ago

Archaeologists in southern subtropical China have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have practised agriculture -before the arrival of domesticated rice in the region. Current archaeological thinking is that it was the advent of rice cultivation along the Lower Yangtze River that marked the beginning of agriculture in southern China. Poor ...

Japanese executive commits suicide in Gurgaon

A senior Japanese executive committed suicide by jumping off a multi storey building in a residential complex in Gurgaon, Haryana, on Friday. Yushiharu Fuji, 54, jumped from a 15 storey high-rise apartment located in Phase 5, DLF City. Gurgaon Police have since taken custody of Fuji's body. Police said Fuji might have been depressed as he lived alone, and therefore, took the extreme step to ...

Social mobilisation key to polio eradication in India Bill Gates

Expected to be the hardest, polio eradication was made possible in India thanks to social mobilisation and mapping of houses refusing the vaccine, according to Microsoft's Bill Gates. "The two things that were done super well were social mobilization and mapping where the houses were," Gates, who has made global health and, in particular, the total eradication of polio his top priority this ...

No one hurt in kitchen blaze

A kitchen fire heavily damaged a south Fort Wayne home Friday evening, the city fire department said.Investigators determined that food left cooking unattended ignited the blaze at 2717 Plaza Drive, near East Pontiac Street.The residents of the home were not inside when the fire started, fire officials said. No injuries were reported.When firefighters first arrived at the scene about 6:20 p.m., ...