A team of genetic engineers from San Francisco has grown a prostate gland using mice cells. The breakthrough offers scientists the possibility of creating a drug that prevents prostate cancer.

The researchers from the California biotechnology firm Genentech extracted cells from some prostate tissue in mice and grafted these to a mouse kidney. In just a few weeks, the tissue grew into a full-size human prostate gland

Six students from Rice University in Houston are creating a beer than contains more of the red wine's healthy ingredients that help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.

The research team's leader, junior Taylor Stevenson, said they are using genetic engineering to create a beer with a higher resveratrol content

A panel of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention proposes to expand the coverage of compulsory pneumococcal vaccination to include adult smokers.

The CDC had already recommended mandatory vaccination for children, the elderly and those with chronic ailments and weak immune systems to protect them against a bacterium that causes pneumonia

A website has been helping people with sexually-transmitted diseases conveniently and anonymously notify by e-mail sexual partners whom they may have inadvertently infected.

InSpot has been used by some 30,000 people since it was launched in San Francisco in 2004 making it an innovative and effective communication channel among sex partners, according to a report published in the October issue of PLoS Medicine

India's two-week old national ban on smoking is facing stiff resistance from its citizens and business establishments.

While the ban covers public parks, movie houses, dining establishments, night spots and offices, hotel owners go around the ban by opening a separate smoking room for nicotine addicts