Disaster reduction conference has focused too little on research, a delegate says

Developmental biologists in Asia have taken steps to forge a closer scientific community in recent months.

Public health experts worried about avian influenza amid tsunami chaos

Interpol calls for standardized DNA testing for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami

One first responder worries that the right experts aren't getting to the right places

Asia started this year braced for another SARS epidemic, but the real infectious disease story turned out to be avian influenza, which spread wildly among the region's poultry in January and February.

Stem cell researchers in Asia expressed relief at the recent United Nations decision to move away from a total ban on human cloning.

WHO and Hong Kong want to test new Chinese kit for avian flu in their own labs

Developmental biologists form a network they hope might one day stretch from Iran to Hawaii

Stem cell researchers in the Far East are content over a move away from cloning ban

An inquiry into what went wrong with SARS follows another that cost some scientific jobs

WHO regional director uses the occasion to warn about bird flu