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Scientists Hack A Human Cell And Reprogram It Like A Computer

CELLS ARE BASICALLY tiny computers: They send and receive inputs and output accordingly. If you chug a Frappuccino, your blood sugar spikes, and your pancreatic cells get t...

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Health

A New Kind Of Male Birth Control Is Coming

Doctors are on the cusp of launching the first new male contraceptive in more than a century. But rather than a Big Pharma lab, the breakthrough is emerging from a universi...

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Health

Time for men to stand up and be counted

In an attempt to offer a bouquet of choices to women in need of family planning services, India has introduced hormonal injectable contraceptives in its national programme....

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Thought Factory

Women and Work

“Historic imbalances in power relations between men and women, exacerbated by growing inequalities within and between societies and countries, are leading to greater ...

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Human Rights

Is Public Health Bill Finally Ready?

A Bill pending for over a decade — that aims to deal with emergency health situations and control, and management of diseases likely to cause major epidemics — ...

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Environment

There's Poison In The Air

Nearly a third of Indian cities have breached annual pollution limits mandated by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) between 2011 and 2015, according to figures fro...

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Health

Here’s Why India Is Struggling And Failing To Control Tuberculosis

TB is continuing to devastate lives in India because of the government’s inability to regulate an exploitive private health sector, and to fill gaps in the supply of ...

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Gender

Who’s The Boss? India’s Women Farmers Take Charge Battling Traditional Gender Roles

For Hira Kanjarya, a 17 hour day is the norm as she gets up before dawn to cook for her five children, do the washing, milk her two buffalos, and also run the family’...

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Sustainable Development

Rhesus Monkeys Took Male Birth Control And They’re Just Fine

Male birth control options are scarce right now, and don't really extend beyond condoms or vasectomy. Researchers are inching toward making them more available, at least in...

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Health

Why Dengue Turns Fatal For Patients With Second Infection

American scientists have made a research breakthrough in their study on dengue, a viral disease that wreaked havoc across India in the last two years, that could help treat...

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