Is asthma drug useful for TB as well ?
Indian scientists find an existing anti-asthma drug is effective against tuberculosis and can overcome the issue of drug resistance as well. Researchers at Indian Institute...
Author : ISJ Bureau
Harappans had knowledge of hydraulic engineering, reveals excavation
Indian researchers find buried water-harvesting system at Dholavira in Kutch district, Gujarat – one of the important sites of Harappan civilisation in India. A team...
Astronomers detect for first time light from very first stars of universe
A team of astronomers including an Indian graduate student from Arizona State University discover, for the first time, signals from “cosmic dawn” – the moment...
Scientists find way to stymie radiation-chemo resistant tumours
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis find cervical tumours that don’t respond to radiation may be vulnerable to therapies that also...
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...
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...