Will we ever have an HIV vaccine?
For around 30 years we have lived under the spectre of HIV. In the early 1980s, the mysterious appearance of symptoms that would later be known as AIDS led to unprecedented efforts to unmask the cause. On 23 April 1984, Margaret Heckler, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, told the world that scientists…
A Fat Breakfast Will Hit Your Hips in Three Hours
Fancy a big breakfast? Think again: scientists have shown that the fat content will go straight to your hips in no time at all. Researchers from Oxford University have found that instead of fat being put on over a gradual amount of time it can, in fact, be just a matter of hours after eating…
Can Siri Find a Cure for Cancer?
Can Siri help you find a cure for cancer? As it stands, this is a bit beyond the skills of the talking virtual assistant on Apple’s iPhone. But British Telecom is putting her through a kind of biomedical training. Last month, at a conference in Boston, BT’s Bas Burger used Siri to launch a mock…