The independent reviewer of counterterrorism laws has implanted an attack on the plans to create a database of every phone call and email sent in Britain. According to Lord Carlile, the idea of a database was pathetic.

While in Canary Wharf, Home office secretary Jacqui Smith was quite busy defending the plans. She said, “Our ability to intercept communications and obtain communications data is vital to fighting terrorism and combating serious crime.”

The government is not determined to collect data related to the actual content but in fact collect the data related to calls and emails, such as the identity of the caller and where they are calling. 

London, October 17 : Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a molecular computer that can run calculations inside a living cell.

Project leaders Maung Nyan Win and Christina Smolke have revealed that, so far, they have tested the living computer on a living yeast cell.

The researchers believe that future models of the computer, made from the DNA-like molecule RNA, may be helpful in running calculations inside human cells to release drugs, or prime the immune system, at the first hint of illness.

They have revealed that the RNA device processes input signals in the form of natural cell proteins and produces an output in the form of green fluorescent protein (GFP).

London, Oct. 16 : A huge growth in internet telephone traffic is jeopardising the capability of police to investigate almost every type of crime, including terror-related ones.

Senior sources have told The Times that as more and more phone calls are routed over the web – using software such as Skype – police are losing the ability to track who has called whom, from where and for how long.

The key difficulty facing police is that, unlike mobile phone companies, which retain call data for billing purposes, Internet call companies have no reason to keep the material.

London, Oct 16 : They say that long distances often help revive romance in a relationship, as lovers can’t stand the stress of being parted. Now, the notion has been backed by a scientific study, which suggests that grief is nature''s way of keeping couples together.

While working with one of nature’s only monogamous mammals, the prairie vole, as a model for human attachment, Larry Young from the Emory University School of Medicine in Georgia and Oliver Bosch from the University of Regensburg, Germany, examined the role of stress, which is plays a significant role in the grieving process.

Washington, Oct 16 : Researchers from NYU Langone Medical Centre have discovered that specific types of bacteria in the intestine trigger the production of pro-inflammatory immune cells, a finding that can lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel disease.

In the study conducted using mouse model, the researchers found that

cytophaga-flavobacter-bacteroidetes (CFB) bacteria were associated with the creation of Th17 cells.

The bacteria play a crucial role in digestion and protect against pathogens by outcompeting harmful bacteria.

“It’s not the amount of microbial flora but the kind of microbial flora that seems to count,” said Dr. Dan Littman, NYU School of Medicine.