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2 months ago
Bone implant offers hope for skull deformities
A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon. Implants replacing some of the infant's bone with the biodegradable matrix could eliminate some of the operations currently used to treat the condition.The remarkable thing about this is the finding that the composition of the matrix changes what the cells ar ... read more

6 months ago
Priest, wife arrested with four human skulls
Lucknow, July 24 - A priest and his wife have been arrested after four human skulls were found in their house in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, the police said Friday. The skulls were recovered from the roof of the Kabir temple in the Vijaynagar locality in Kanpur, about 80 km from Lucknow. According to police, the priest, Shyamlal, and his wife, Rajkumari, have confessed that they used human ... read more

8 months ago
Police clueless on recovery of 100 human skulls in Aligarh
Aligarh, June 10 - A fortnight after nearly 100 human skulls were discovered by street urchins in a dried-up pond here, the Uttar Pradesh police are still to come up with a credible explanation for the mystery. The skulls were discovered in a pond that runs parallel to the district jail boundary wall here. The residents say only a part of the pond was dug up and there could be even more skulls a ... read more

8 months ago
Human skulls tumble out of clerk's office cupboard
Raipur, May 26 - A team of senior government officials was stunned to discover two human skulls inside the cupboard of a clerk during a search of his office to probe complaints of financial irregularities, police said Tuesday. The incident has created a sensation in Korba district's Pali area, some 160 km north of capital Raipur. The raid took place Sunday. A team of officials led by Korba dist ... read more

8 months ago
Two dozen human skulls, bones, found in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow, May 23 - Panic prevailed in the Civil Lines locality of Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh town Saturday when over two dozen human skulls and bones were found in a pond, police said. The skulls and bones surfaced after the pond dried up due to excessive heat in the past few days. However, the police said the remains are of unidentified bodies that are disposed off by the police. 'A mortuary is s ... read more

11 months ago
Excavation of wells in Turkey reveals human skull, bones
Ankara, March 16 - Turkish investigators looking into reports that the bodies of several people murdered in the 1990s in south-east Turkey had been dumped into wells have discovered a human skull, Turkish media reported Monday. Digging around several wells in the district of Silopi, investigators found human hair, clothes, a military cap and human bones. Dozens of people went missing, presumabl ... read more

1 year ago
Two years after Nithari killings, first verdict awaited
Noida, Dec 28 - Two years after a businessman and his domestic help were accused of slaughtering several poor children and young women, a special court is set to pronounce the first verdict in the gruesome Nithari episode that shook India. Millions across the country and abroad were horrified as police on Dec 29, 2006, began uncovering the remains of 19 children and young women from a drain next ... read more

1 year ago
Olympic torch ends longest-ever relay
Beijing, Aug 8 - China held the final leg of the 2008 Olympic torch relay Friday before the lighting of the cauldron at the opening ceremony in Beijing's National Stadium. The last 7.9-km leg began at Beijing's Peking Man museum in the south-western suburb of Zhoukoudian, where a fossilized human skull dating back at least 200,000 years was found in 1926. The relay ended when the torch arrived a ... read more

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