Though more and more countries have legalised marijuana for medical purposes, cannabis is still illegal in Thailand. But realising the gradually shifting tide, Rangsit University founded the Medical Cannabis Research Team last year in the hope of securing scientific proof on the medical benefits of cannabis -- and, pending a…

In 2013, Kyoto University’s Shinya Yamanaka was awarded one of the first Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences for his discovery of “induced” stem cells that enabled researchers to convert adult cells back into stem cells.

For most of this century we have been preventing the very same diseases in the same populations, for a small fraction of the cost of treatment and at much lower lower risk for side effects using IVF and preimplantation genetics (PGD.)

After Keith Beck died of bile duct cancer last year, family members said more than 900 people showed up to pay respects to the popular athletic director at the University of Findlay in northwestern Ohio.

Between 5% and 10% of those with the virus will develop a rapidly fatal form of leukaemia

HTLV-1 is endemic across central Australia. But testing takes six months and is not freely available