The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has published the R&D; Roadmap for Green Hydrogen Ecosystem in India. This document was published on 13th October, 2023. One of the central pillars of the National Green Hydrogen Mission is the establishment of a supportive research and innovation ecosystem for green hydrogen …
it is, in fact, nitrogen's extraordinary usefulness to life which is at the heart of the damage it can cause. It ranks fourth as the most common chemical in living tissues, after oxygen, carbon and hydrogen. It is important for plant nutrition, and thus for animal life as well. It …
a study by Dale Bauman and William Kelly of the Cornell University in Ithaca, us, shows that supplementing a cow's diet with corn oil increases the amount of conjugated linoleic acid (cla), a fatty acid manufactured by bacteria in the cow's rumen, which helps in preventing melanoma and leukaemia. cla …
Ranitidine hydrochloride (Zantac) is one of the most extensively studied and widely used drugs of all time. This has provided an excellent opportunity to define its safety profile. Original Source
A lot of debate over Indian science & technology (s&t;) is focused around funding. Currently, India spends about 0.8 per cent of its gross national product on s&t;, down from almost one per cent spent in 1992-93. This includes investments made by central and state governments as well as the …
life existed on Earth 350 million years earlier than everyone predicted, says a researcher in California, us. It was a time when the planet was still being bombarded by meteors. Gustaf Arrhenius of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego, us, claims that 3.85 billion-year-old rocks from Greenland contained …
Japanese scientists have learned that beer may inhibit the carcinogen: tryptophan pyrolysate product no-2, a heterocyclic amine, produced by burning meat, fish or tobacco leaves. This was reported by a team led by Hikoya Hayatsu, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Okayama University, in the annual meeting of the Japanese …
Two independent Boston-based research teams have linked cigarette smoking to age related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among older people. People who smoked 25 cigarettes a day suffered from AMD two and a half times more the rate as non-smokers. Even those who quit smoking developed the …
for millions of Indians, Africans and those living in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, it is an unfortunate genetic legacy that has been passed over several generations
the much maligned chocolate can actually act as a powerful tool against heart attacks. Andrew L Waterhouse, Joseph R Shirley and Jennifer L Donovan from the department of viticulture and enology, University of California, Davis, us report that chocolate contains potent chemicals that neutralise substances directly implicated in coronary heart …
all genetic research begins with isolation of mutants: genes or organisms that appear different from the normal ones (the wild-types). Keith Williams and colleagues from the School of Biological Sciences in Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, have found a solution known as fluorescence-activated cell sorting (facs) for identifying mutants that differ …
humans are the only animals who consume the milk of other species and continue with it long after the age of weaning. However, this can lead to problems. Recent studies have linked the consumption of cow's milk with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (iddm), commonly known as diabetes, which is caused by …
previous studies on the fruitfly Drosophila have revealed that heterochromatin in a chromosome represses or silences genes that lie close to it. Heterochromatin is most commonly found at the centromere, the point of attachment on a chromosome during cell division when sister chromosomes are pulled apart. The activation and repression …
Alcoholics are often heavy smokers too. The link has its roots in the brain, say researchers. Neuroscientists at the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, US, have found that alcohol and nicotine, the chemical in tobacco, affect the same protein, the acetylcholine receptor molecule, on a brain cell. Experiments conducted …
Soon it may be possible to get resistance against a disease by simply eating a potato. A team headed by Charles Arntzen at the Boyce Thompson Institute of Plant Research in New York, US, has undertaken advanced research on a vaccine for diarrhoea, using raw potatoes. A gene introduced in …
As the youngest director-general of the world's largest R&D; organisation, is steering such a massive organisation through a process of change an unenviable task? It absolutely is. But a good thing is that today, everyone talks about csir's vision 2001 and I am getting enthusiastic responses to it. Do you …
new forays into the much-heard-of link between smoking and cancer has established beyond doubt that there is a definite and clear relationship between the two. Researchers from the University of Texas and Beckman Research Institute, California, working on the p53 gene, which is known to prevent proliferation of cells leading …
pattern formation in nature is an almost universal phenomenon, be it biological, like patterns on animals or geological, like striations in rock formations. Though the physical interactions leading to development of patterns may differ, the evolution and dynamics of patterns could be provided an universal mathematical description. Paul Umbanhowar and …
the post-war consensus on poverty alleviation was shattered by a truculent critique of the welfare state from the combative conservative right in us in the early '80s. Apart from the rising costs of welfare which impoverished the treasuries of governments, the liberal left had also to stomach the fact that …
It is known that female catfishes attach their mouths to the anal region of the males during spawning. The significance of this bizarre trait has been discovered by some Japanese scientists from the laboratory of Animal Sociology at the Osaka City University. They have found that the sperm on being …
