The clock is very well ticking.

Reproductive health experts are urging countries with declining populations to allocate resources and research ways to combat infertility before time runs out

Seven genetic variations connected to prostate cancer were recently discovered by a team from the Cancer Research U.K. The findings may aid scientists in the future to find a cure for the ailment which claims 10,000 men in Britain annually.

Dr. Ros Eeles, head of the Cancer Research in Surrey, said, "These exciting results will help us to more accurately calculate the risk of developing prostate cancer and may lead to the development of better targeted screening and treatment

Researchers have found that ovarian cancer can mutate and can develop a mechanism to survive chemotherapy drugs and rebound. Ovarian cancer, dubbed as "silent killer" because of the number deaths attributed to the disease, is a major killer among women.

Two studies that was published online by the British Journal Nature has shown that ovarian tumors among women with cancer-causing gene called BRCA2, initially respond to treatment using platinum-based drugs like cisplatin and carboplatin

A doctor at Columbia University says they have developed new virus genome sequencing technology. It was developed by the university and a Connecticut biotechnology firm and the doctor says it is the best tool to identify infectious diseases quickly and accurately.

According to a report on high throughput DNA sequencing technology, to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, the technique successfully identified arenavirus lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) as the killer of three organ transplant patients in Australia in April 2005. The kidney and liver were from an American donor infected with the virus

A recent study concluded that extended cell phone use may affect the number and quality of the male sperm count. This would significantly diminish a man's fertility, making it much harder to produce a baby.

Experts from a Cleveland Clinic explained that, according to their findings, the count and quality of produced male sperm is inversely proportional to the frequency of their use of the cell phone