London, October 10: A team of researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, has successfully used a novel microscope to map the behaviour and movements of cells during zebrafish embryonic development, and to create a three-dimensional digital movie of the process.

The researchers claimed that they were the first to complete a developmental blueprint of a vertebrate using the technique called digital scanned laser light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (DSLM).

They said that the technique could also be applied to embryos of other vertebrates such as mice and frogs.

London, Oct 10 : The British Pakistani community has expressed concern over NATO-led forces’ attacks inside Pakistani territory and asked the organisation to refrain from such actions.

British Member of Parliament Lord Nazir Ahmad expressed the concern in a letter to NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

Ahmad said in the letter that American and NATO forces continued to infringe on Pakistan’s sovereignty by carrying out attacks through missiles and helicopter gunships in North Waziristan.

London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on governments around the world to follow the example of Britain in taking "ground-breaking" decisions to stabilize the banking system.

Writing in the Times newspaper Friday, Brown said governments should put money into struggling banks and offer similar guarantees worth hundreds of billions to persuade the banks to start lending to each other again.

UK government has announced that it will pump US$ 87 billion pounds (around US$ 50 billion pounds) in an extraordinary step to prevent a fall down of the U.K. banking system.

London, Oct 10 : Data security worries could soon be an anxiety of the past, courtesy the world''s first computer network protected by unbreakable quantum encryption.

The EU-sponsored project (called SECO-QC) has been successfully demonstrated at a scientific conference in Vienna.

The network connects six locations across Vienna and in the nearby town of St Poelten, using 200 km of standard commercial fibre optic cables.

The kinds of security schemes used on computer networks today are typically based on complex mathematical procedures, which are extremely hard for outsiders to crack, but not impossible given sufficient computing resources or time.

London, Oct 10 : In a new study, researchers found that a novel therapy using a miniature nerve stimulator instead of the medication for the treatment of profoundly disabling headache disorders alleviated the experience of pain by 80-95 percent.

The findings, by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, give doctors the promise of a non-drug treatment option for pain sufferers unable to tolerate indometacin - the standard medication known to cause stomach bleeding in some patients.