SCIENCE & RESEARCH

Cholesterol levels are rising among Asians: Study

10:35 pm June 5, 2020

Hyderabad: Cholesterol levels are rising among Asians even as it is sharply declining in Western nations though it is still higher when compared to the levels in the Asian region, Avula Laxmaiah, Scientist G & Head, Division of Public Health Nutrition, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, said on Friday. He is one of the authors of […]

CSIR-CMERI develop new indigenous ventilator

1:23 pm June 4, 2020

New Delhi: Researchers at Durgapur-based Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) have indigenously developed a ventilator amid rising cases of COVID-19. The new ventilator was unveiled in the presence of Prof. (Dr) Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI, and Dr Arunangshu Ganguly, Chairman and Managing Director, Health World Hospitals Pvt Ltd, Durgapur. “The bellow design, controllers and […]

NCVTC to develop of host-directed antivirals for COVID 19

1:08 pm June 4, 2020

New Delhi: Support for a study, which will screen library of 94 small molecule chemical inhibitors for antivirals against coronaviruses, by the National Centre for Veterinary Type Cultures (NCVTC), ICAR-NRC from Hisar in Haryana has been approved by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). The molecules are known to inhibit cellular kinases, phosphatases, and […]

Rare bandtail scorpionfish found in Gulf of Mannar

9:22 pm May 31, 2020

Kochi: Indian researchers have found a rare fish -capable of changing its colour- off the Sethukarai coast in the Gulf of Mannar, one of the world’s richest region from a marine biodiversity perspective. Camouflaged within the seagrass meadows, the bandtail scorpionfish (Scorpaenospsis Neglecta), a rare marine species well-known for the stinging venomous spines and the […]

Certifying Quantum Entanglement: A step towards Quantum Security

11:43 am May 22, 2020

New Delhi: Scientists from S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), Kolkata, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology have developed a novel protocol to find out whether a pair of electrons is in an entangled state so that they can be safely used as resources for facilitating quantum information […]