TOKYO - JAPAN'S Toyota Motor said on Monday it had invented a way to allow a person to steer an electric wheelchair through simple thought, using a helmet-like device that measures their brain waves.

The cutting-edge Brain Machine Interface (BMI) technology uses electrodes attached to the scalp to measure localised brain activity when a user concentrates on certain physical movements.

MELBOURNE - AUSTRALIAN researchers are set to begin human trials of a tiny nano-cell that acts as a 'Trojan horse' against cancer cells, a breakthrough they say may curb the need for debilitating chemotherapy.

LONDON - TWO new techniques to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to fight their biological clocks and have children when they are older, doctors announced on Monday.

In the past, scientists have performed ovarian transplants in women with cancer, since chemotherapy often causes infertility.