HUMAN beings have always wanted to explore the unknown.

Sixty years ago, he unlocked the mystery of genes, but lately he seems to be more focused on the one that causes mischief.

President Cristina Fernandez has thyroid cancer, but test results show that it remains limited to a lobe in the right side of her neck, and has not metastasised or spread into her lymph nodes, her spokesman said.

The United Nations Aids agency urged increased funding for early treatment of people with HIV following a new international study showing it could dramatically reduce the number of new infections through sexual transmission.

THE Obama administration can continue using federal tax dollars to fund human embryonic stem cell research, an appeals court has ruled, overturning a judge’s decision and handing a victory to the White House.

A new gel can block the Aids virus, halving a woman’s chances of getting HIV from an infected partner, US scientists say.

MARRIED couples who are still in love heal faster than those whose relationship has gone off the boil.

A BIOLOGICAL molecule that may help to explain the effects of the alternative therapy acupuncture has been identified by scientists.

South Africa is launching clinical trials of the first AIDS vaccines created by a developing country, a feat by scientists who forged ahead even when some of their political leaders shocked the world with unscientific pronouncements about the disease.

INTERNATIONAL controversy is growing about the safety of a plastic widely used to make baby bottles, sealants on food and drink cans and reusable food and drink containers.

WITH people dying of Aids in far greater numbers than those who have access to treatment and prevention, male circumcision could be a promising tool in the prevention of transmitting HIV, an international Aids conference in Toronto, Canada, has heard.

An Irish research team involved in a major international project studying autism will get €5m from the Government, it emerged today.