The forgotten kids of Gorakhpur
Hundreds of people, mostly children suffer from Japanese Encephalitis in Gorakhpur, in eastern Uttar Pradesh. While many succumb to the deadly disease, the survivors develop...
Month : February 2018
Japanese scientists design bioluminescent molecules, to image cells from outside
Japanese scientists design bioluminescent molecules hundreds of times brighter in deep tissues to image the cells from outside the body. The bioengineered light source was...
Nutrition may help overcome genetic risk of diabetes: study
Indian scientists find, good nutrition – in the form of B12 and folic acid supplements – has a beneficial impact on genes associated with Type...
IIT-Hyderabad develops new technology that may help scale up memory storage capacity
A group of Indian researchers at Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad has developed a new type of resistive random-access memory (RRAM) device that can be controlled...
CCMB working to make personalised medicine a reality
Scientists at Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular Molecular Biology are working now to convert ordinary cells extracted from a patient’s body and use them to develop...
Augmented video games can help in stroke recovery: study
Video games, popular among kids in the 1990s, have made a comeback with the advent of virtual reality (VR) which gives users a sense of...
Stone Age tools found in TN suggest reframing of ‘Out of Africa’ theories
Indian archaeologists challenge the popular scientific theory that Middle Palaeolithic was brought to India by modern humans, dispersing from Africa only around 125,000 years ago...