London, Nov 3: A novel designer molecule, created by researchers at the University of Bonn, can attack malignant melanoma via two completely different routes.

In the first route, the substance makes use of its structure, which is quite similar to components of viruses, to alert the immune system. At the same time, the own defences of the body are also strengthened against cancer cells.

London, November 3: Intel and ASUS are urging people to dream about and tell them what do they want in an ideal computer so that they could design PCs in accordance with the user community’s desires.

The companies have created a website, WePC. com, to enable people to share and comment on ideas to "enable a global conversation about the ideal elements of a PC."

Both companies insist that they are actually committed to building an ideal machine based on their customers’ feedbacks.

London, November 3: An international research team has found that bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot, something that has long been thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution.

The researchers believe that their new findings may help advance scientists’ understanding of coagulation during bacterial infections, which in turn may pave the way for new clinical methods for treating serious medical conditions like sepsis and anthrax.

London, November 3: A team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital has found that the ability of the immune system cells called T-lymphocytes to fight childhood cancer neuroblastoma can be improved with the aid of an artificial tumour-specific receptor.

London, November 3: British actress Gemma Arterton, who stars as MI6 Agent Strawberry Fields in the latest James Bond film ‘Quantum of Solace’, dared the onlookers by revealing her toned body in a bikini.

The 22-year-old, who was born with 12 fingers, was seen topping up her tan in a black bikini as she emerged from a pool in Morocco.

“She looked gorgeous, no one could take their eyes off her. It’s no surprise a body like that made it into a Bond film,” News of the World quoted a fellow holidaymaker as saying.

London, November 3: An anti-obesity medicine called tesofensine has been found to be about twice as effective as any previous diet drug.

The drug made by NeuroSearch of Copenhagen, Denmark, was tested on some people who weight more than 100 kilograms.

A research article in the journal The Lancet suggests that those who took the drug lost almost 13 kilograms in 6 months.

The drug makes people feel full early in a meal by increasing the pleasurable effects of three neurotransmitters.