News on Science, Technology and Research in India
In a bid to develop a ‘green’ alternative, researchers from the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, have fabricated an anticorrosive material made from mango leaves. They have tested the substance on commercial steel specimen and subjected it to harsh environmental conditions. The mango leaf – based product was found to be efficient in inhibiting corrosion.
After MPS Bisht, director Uttarakhand Space and Application Centre (USAC), had found the fossils of an elephant-like creature inside Corbett’s Bijrani range during his visit in May this year, the Corbett administration first approached India’s noted palaeontologist Ashok Sahni, the man credited for placing India on the fossil map of the world.
As the world marks June 25 as International Vitiligo Day, Pandey, who heads the Herbal Medicine Division of DRDO’s Defence Institute of Bio-energy Research (DIBER) at Pithoragarh, talked about Lukoskin, which is presently manufactured and marketed by Delhi-based AIMIL Pharma Ltd.
Scientists at the NIRTH have found that an enzyme called glutamate dehydrogenase could offer a solution. “Our study provides scientific evidence for the conserved nature of glutamate dehydrogenase sequences in Indian isolates which can be used as a potential biomarker for diagnosis of malaria,” said Dr. Praveen Kumar Bharti, leader of the research team.
Researchers from the Delhi-based Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research have now developed a novel translucent nail lacquer fortified with an antifungal drug to treat onychomycosis. The drug-infused, quick-drying polymer can be easily applied like nail polish.
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore was ranked second in the University Rankings, globally for its research facilities. This makes IISc the first Indian institution to get nearly 100,000 citations in research papers in a span of five years.
Ceramic filters and membranes are commonly used in several sectors like food and beverage, drug and chemicals, waste recovery and recycling industries.
Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, have now found that gelatin-based patches loaded with silver nanoparticles perform better than collagen ones
Researchers from Wildlife Conservation Society India and the Forest Department, Assam, used systematically documented photographic identities of individual elephants to estimate Asian elephant populations in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam.
Dye sensitized solar cells hold a lot of promise because of possible cost and environmental benefits. But they have low light-to-power conversion efficiency. The new process promises to enhance the efficiency.
