4 November 2010 Last updated at 18:04 GMT

Clue to how some 'control' their HIV without medication

By Caroline ParkinsonHealth reporter, BBC News

Tiny changes to an "alarm" protein which responds to infections may explain why some with HIV can control their condition without drugs.

Around one in 300 people with HIV are "controllers", and scientists want to replicate how their bodies behave.

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2 November 2010 Last updated at 01:17 GMT

Jellyfish cells 'diagnose' cancer, York scientists say

Luminous cells from jellyfish can be used to diagnose cancers deep inside the body, scientists have said.

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Is multi-kulti dead?

Oct 22nd 2010, 14:10 by The Economist online | BERLIN

Deutschland schafft sich ab(“Germany does away with itself”). The dour economist reached this conclusion—surprising in light of Germany’s splendid economic performance—from his reading of the demographic future: with the country's population shrinking overall, immigrants and the underclass are having too many children, well-educated native Germans too few. Biologically, culturally and professionally Germany is dumbing down, Mr Sarrazin argued (and was then forced out of his job).
The insult to the poor was quickly forgotten but the anti-immigrant line snowballed into a ferocious debate about how Germany should deal with its 16m immigrants (or people with “migrant backgrounds”), especially its 4m or so Muslims. Even those who revile Mr Sarrazin accept that he has struck a nerve. Germany clearly isn’t doing enough to bring immigrants into the social and economic mainstream. Too many drop out of school and live off the dole. A worrying minority form “parallel societies”, and a few actively plot harm against their German neighbours.
Germans accentuate the negative, according to a raft of recent polls. Most favour “sharply restricting” Muslim religious practice, a third think the country is overrun with foreigners and a tenth say they want a strong Führer (though presumably not theFührer again). Some conservative politicians have been eager to clamber aboard this unpleasant bandwagon, partly out of fear that if they don’t irresponsible populists will take their places. Horst Seehofer, the premier of Bavaria and head of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party of the governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), went furthest among respectable politicians: Germany is not an “immigration land”, heproclaimed, and it certainly does not need more immigrants from “other cultural backgrounds”, such as Turkish or Arabic. 

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Vaccines

A smarter jab

Big drugs companies see a bright future for vaccines

Oct 14th 2010 | NEW YORK

FOR decades vaccines were a neglected corner of the drugs business, with old technology, little investment and abysmal profit margins. Many firms sold their vaccine divisions to concentrate on more profitable drugs. This troubled public-health experts because vaccines are a highly effective way of dealing with diseases.

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Times / Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010

City Centered

By Bruce Katz

With our recovery sluggish and our politics in
rancorous free fall, the U.S.

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Consumer goods

Basket cases

The recession has changed people’s shopping habits

Oct 14th 2010

Shop until you stop

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The global economy

How to stop a currency war

Keep calm, don’t expect quick fixes and above all don’t unleash a trade fight with China

Oct 14th 2010

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How Should America Handle Extreme Speech?

By NANCY GIBBS Sunday, Oct. 03, 2010

Illustration of the Statue of Liberty holding a burning book.

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