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Huntington’s disease is a movement disorder that includes walking abnormality, muscle spasm, hallucinations, depressions, and tremors. It is caused by a type of genetic mutation called trinucleotide repeat expansion in a gene named huntingtin gene.
The 44.4 metre tall PSLV lifted off majestically with a thunderous sound, leaving plumes of smoke from the first launch pad at the spaceport here at 3.25 pm.
Researchers from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR-IMTECH), Chandigarh have given a new paradigm to the whole mechanism of how Mtb eludes the treatment.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), through its constituent laboratories namely CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP), Lucknow; and CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR-NBRI), Lucknow developed scientifically validated herbal product NBRMAP-DB as anti-diabetic formulation and the knowhow for the product was licensed to M/s AIMIL Pharma Ltd., Delhi who are manufacturing and marketing it as BGR-34, across the country.
This fossil was unearthed in 2003 by Rajeev Patnaik (Panjab University) and Parth R. Chauhan (IISER Mohali) who spent days studying the fossiliferous silt near the river Narmada. “We believed that the species was older than 50,000 years and did not study it fully. Recently, I analysed the date using accelerator mass spectroscopy (AMS) in Taiwan. It revealed that the specimen was quite young and could possibly be among the last ones that lived in India,” Dr. Patnaik says.
The MoU will help formalize the working relationship between the two organizations in areas such as honey testing, promotion of Honey Mission alongside the CSIR Aroma Mission and the proposed CSIR Floriculture Mission.
In September, India had launched early warning system Netra (Network for Space Objects, Tracking, and Analysis) to secure satellites and other assets in space at an estimated to cost Rs 400 crore.
Uganda grows 100% organic cotton and cotton grown by the farmers in Uganda gives higher ginning out turn compared with Indian cotton. However, the yield from the varieties developed by the CDRA are higher compared with the Ugandan cotton seed. Scientists in the three organisations will work together and seed varieties will be tested in both India and Uganda. The aim is to develop a long-staple cotton seed variety that will increase the income for cotton farmers in Uganda.
The team has successfully developed a low-fat synbiotic ice cream using beta-MOS, a plant-derived fibre as a prebiotic component and Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus fermentum as probiotics.
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