Madrid  - A controversy surrounding the planned liberalization of abortion heated up in Spain on Friday as scientists disagreed over whether scientific arguments could be used for or against the termination of pregnancy.

A group of top scientists signed a counter-manifesto in response to an anti-abortion declaration which has been signed by some 2,000 scientists and other professionals since last week, the daily El Pais reported.

Science showed that human life began at the moment of conception, the pro-life intellectuals argued.

Melbourne, Mar 27 : Dutch researchers have invented a TummyTub to give babies the feeling that they are in the womb, while they can simultaneously view their surroundings.

The tubs or buckets have gotten the approval of doctors, midwives, health visitors, and maternity hospitals across Europe, as they make bath time enjoyable.

"It helps to ease the transition from the comfort of the mothers' womb," News. com. au quoted the makers as saying.

Washington, Mar 27 : Parkinson’s disease patients can improve their postural stability by directing their attention to the external effects of their movements, instead of focussing on movements of their own body, according to a new study.

Adults with Parkinson disease are at greater risk for posture and balance impairments, which may lead to falls and resultant head injuries and fractures. Such injuries may finally lead to hospitalisation, and further mobility limitations.

Washington, Mar 27 : A researchers duo at the University of Rhode Island has revealed how reactive oxygen species (ROS), a type of stress signal, regulate a cancer causing protein, called Src.

The findings may help understand how this protein normally behaves in human cells, and eventually help in designing drugs to target specific cancers.

Doctoral student David J. Kemble and Professor Gongqin Sun in the URI Department of Cell and Molecular Biology are the first to provide a biochemical mechanism describing how tyrosine kinases sense and respond to oxidation.

Washington, Mar 27 : A team of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology has made a breakthrough in understanding how HIV spreads through the human body after capturing the process on camera.

Researchers have recorded the transfer of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from infected to uninfected T cells through structures called virological synapses.

The breakthrough study could lead to new methods to block the transmission of HIV, and shows that cell-to-cell may be the predominant mode of HIV transmission in the body.

London, Mar 27 : Doctors have raised concerns over inappropriate diagnosis and treatment of thyroid problems.

While writing in British Medical Journal, the doctors at the British Thyroid Association revealed that increasing numbers of patients with and without confirmed thyroid disease have been diagnosed and treated inappropriately with thyroid hormones.

"This is potentially an enormous problem, given that in any one year one in four people in the United Kingdom have their thyroid function checked," they said.