News, January 2003

• Hundreds of new malaria drug targets

  Transport tags mark parasite for death.

  31 January 2003

• Drought due to warmer tropical oceans

  Jet-stream shift may have caused 1998 to 2002 dry spell.

  31 January 2003

• Prions get fishy

  Primitive prion hints at origins of brain disease.

  31 January 2003

• TB medic wins global health post

  New director-general elected for World Health Organisation.

  30 January 2003

• Sharks' snout gel senses cold

  Temperature change makes current flow through shark skin.

  30 January 2003

• New twist to battle of sexes

  Fathers control how many young, mothers how big.

  30 January 2003

• Geologists show Homer got it right

  Trojan geography in Homer's Iliad matches sediment record of Dardanelles coastline.

  29 January 2003

• Radiotherapy blow to fertility underestimated

  Eggs twice as sensitive to cancer-treating radiation.

  29 January 2003

• Cows immune to caress

  Given the choice, only food puts cows in the mood.

  28 January 2003

• Starvation could relieve multiple sclerosis

  Study in mice links appetite hormone and autoimmune disease.

  28 January 2003