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The penicillin war: India's journey from self-sufficiency to dependence on ChinaAfter India lost its dominance in making penicillin, a drought of three decades is coming to an end. The drug – which forms the base for a ...
06 May, 2024, 08.48 PM IST
All it takes: 1% god's graceLook at how Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. Upon returning from a vacation, Fleming checked on colonies of staphylococcus bacteria...
04 Nov, 2023, 12.55 AM IST
Kariko and Weissman win medicine Nobel for COVID-19 vaccine workThe 2023 NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleos...
02 Oct, 2023, 05.46 PM IST
Svante Pääbo wins Nobel Prize in MedicineLast year's recipients were David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touc...
03 Oct, 2022, 08.13 PM IST
From anaesthesia to penicillin: Drugs that changed the world, for better or worseIt's a good reminder that today's wonder drug may be tomorrow's problem drug.
19 Aug, 2022, 06.13 PM IST
View: Time to “Florey” the Digital Infrastructure for accelerated growthIndia started on the long, difficult but exciting path of providing digital connectivity with several optical fibre projects for BSNL and d...
23 Mar, 2021, 09.09 AM IST
Eight productivity myths bustedHere are the things we think we should be doing in order to be more productive, but actually don't need to do!
21 Mar, 2016, 08.01 AM IST
Guru Madhavan's Applied Minds: Engineering solutions that make a big differenceGuru Madhavan's book, Applied Minds, is full of such stories of engineers who worked against odds to come up with solutions that made a big...
19 Sep, 2015, 04.04 AM IST
Scientists create new antibiotic Teixobactin in 30 yearsTeixobactin can treat many common bacterial infections such as tuberculosis, septicemia and C Diff or clostridium difficile colitis.
09 Jan, 2015, 11.23 AM IST
Four wins, one defeat for Indians at Australian Open todaySania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna won both their respective doubles and mixed doubles matches to enter the third round of the showpiece event h...
18 Jan, 2014, 03.09 PM IST
Cadila Pharma, Helperby sign licensing deal on antibiotic drug resistanceDescribed as the most important innovation in the discovery of antibiotics since Alexander Fleming's original breakthrough more than 80 yea...
14 Nov, 2013, 02.32 PM IST
Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd & Helperby sign licensing deal on antibiotic drug resistanceHelperby will supply Cadila Pharma with Antibiotic Resistance Breakers whilst Cadila will develop the combinations with old antibiotics.
14 Nov, 2013, 02.20 PM IST