MOSCOW - A Russian capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals returned from a month's mission in orbit on Sunday with data scientists hope will pave the way for a manned flight to Mars.Russian Mission Control said the Bion-M craft landed softly with the help of a ...

MOSCOW (AFP) - A Russian rocket carrying a capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals blasted off Friday on a month-long orbital mission that should pave the way for manned flights to Mars.Live footage on the Roscosmos space agency website showed the Soyuz lifting off ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - British scientists have discovered a type of antibody in mice that blocks a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, offering a potential new route to treatment, according to research published on Tuesday.The antibodies shut down a protein called Dkk1 that in turn stops the ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Plump fat rats and cockroaches in Parliament lodges are a cause of real concern for the legislators, particularly the PPP MNA from Faisalabad, Ejaz Virk advocate. If one is to go by his account of these rodents and creepy crawlies, then they are so well-fed that they can 'attack ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - High doses of vitamin C injections reduced the size of tumours and slowed cancerous growths by about 50 per cent in laboratory mice, according to US research released Monday. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health noted the phenomenon in brain, ovarian and pancreatic ...