News on Science, Technology and Research in India
For the first time, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has collected genome sequence of 1,008 Indians, representing over 55 different ethnic populations and age groups, creating a bank of genetic data. Genome sequencing is the process of figuring out the order of DNA nucleotides, or bases, in a genome.
A crew abort system is important in a manned space mission because it allows the capsule with the crew members to quickly separate from the rocket in case of an emergency. Prior to the actual manned mission, four crew abort tests have been planned with the new rocket, Somanath said during a media interaction at the International Astronautical Congress now being held in Washington DC.
The customer satellites will be sent to their respective orbits on the PSLV-C47 (where ISRO’s own Cartosat-3 is the main payload), C48 & C-49 in November and December.
Indian scientists have found key indicators of this disease in the brain environment, and suggest that this knowledge may help in early detection by identifying the role of protective form of antioxidant involved in the Alzheimer’s.
The software has been developed by ThoughtWorks Technologies based in Pune. This team is also developing another software component for the telescope – Executive Software product.
Yadav, who dreams of starting an indigenous aircraft manufacturing centre in India, has floated Thrust Aircraft Company and named his TAC003 prototype aircraft after Narendra Modi and Devendra Fadnavis–
VT NMD. He has to take the flight test in the presence of flight test experts (FTE).
The technology, called CFLOWS, is India’s first integrated coastal flood warning system. It was conceptualised by the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Union Government, after the devastating 2015 Chennai floods.
Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad and KIIT School of Architecture, Bhubaneshwar, have developed bricks from agricultural waste products. They have developed a process to use dry waste like paddy straws, wheat straws and sugarcane bagasse to make bricks.
The RLV program aims to cut down on launch costs by, well, reusing the spacecraft. ISRO’s current project appears to be using a hybrid design that sits somewhere between NASA’s now-shuttered Space Shuttle program and SpaceX’s reusable rockets.
Two diagnostic kits developed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) – Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) under the ‘Make in India’ initiative, namely the Bluetongue sandwich ELISA (sELISA) and the Japanese Encephalitis lgM ELISA kit for the control of Swine and Detection of Antigen
