Biomaterials startup altM raises $3.5 million in funding led by OmnivorealtM is Omnivore’s first investment from its third fund, which in June had its first close at $150 million. It is also the firm’s fourth in...
07 Sep, 2023, 07.40 PM IST
UK university takes roadshow to India to strengthen scientific partnershipsThe University of Manchester is strengthening its partnerships with India, during a visit to the country by a senior delegation this week. ...
15 May, 2023, 10.15 PM IST
Agritech VC firm Omnivore sets up new $130 million fundThis is the third fund by the investor and is expected to close the new fund by September 2022. With this fund the investment firm expects ...
04 Apr, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Who is Otto Wichterle, the Czech chemist whom Google is honouring with a doodle?The doodle celebrates Wichterle's 108th birth anniversary.
27 Oct, 2021, 10.54 AM IST
Scientists develop novel method to preserve vaccines without refrigerationAccording to the study, published in the journal Biomaterials Science, the viruses in vaccines, which train our cells to identify and vanqu...
12 Nov, 2020, 05.00 PM IST
IIT Guwahati researchers design engineered surfaces to detect, prevent coronavirus"So far we are using antibody-based assays and RT-PCR based methods for testing during pandemic. However, longer assay time, cost, complex ...
06 Sep, 2020, 05.18 PM IST
20 technologies that could change your life in the next decadeThe decade that’s knocking on our doors now — the 2020s — is likely to be a time when science fiction manifests itself in our homes and roa...
28 Dec, 2019, 11.23 PM IST
- This Russian varsity aims to tap S&T talent from across borders
Moscow, April 25 (IANS) In a move that can be seen as an attempt to correct the mistakes of the past, top officials of a Russian university...
25 Apr, 2018, 02.17 PM IST
How Axio Biosolutions' product is helping to save road accident victimsIt raised seed capital in 2010 from Ahmedabad-based venture capital firm GVFL and Series A funding last year from Accel Partners and IDG Ve...
05 Aug, 2016, 04.38 AM IST
New biodegradable material with built-in vitamin A may reduce scarringThe soft elastic material can be used to treat injured vessels or making medical devices, such as stents and prosthetic vascular grafts.
28 Jan, 2016, 01.01 PM IST
Indian-American researcher named fellow of US academyA prominent Indian-American bio-engineering researcher has been named as a fellow in the US' National Academy of Inventors for his work in ...
22 Dec, 2015, 07.11 PM IST
3-D printed brain 'tissue' to help combat diseaseScientists have developed a 3D printed layered structure incorporating neural cells that mimics the structure of brain tissue, a breakthrou...
04 Aug, 2015, 05.02 PM IST
DNA 'smart glue' may help build tissues, organsDNA strands can act as a glue to hold together 3-D-printed materials that could someday be used to grow tissues and organs in the lab, a st...
15 Jan, 2015, 04.28 PM IST
- Manmohan Singh PhD scholarship: 3 Indians selected for the programme
Three Indians have been selected for this year's prestigious Dr Manmohan Singh PhD scholarship of St John's College of Cambridge University.
26 Sep, 2012, 09.31 PM IST
- Government to promote cocoon production
Between April 2011 and March 2012, there was a significant drop in the prices of cocoons in various cocoon markets from about Rs 275 per Kg...
14 May, 2012, 04.48 PM IST
- IIT-B to felicitate its whizkids
A revolutionary portable map that you can carry in your purse or a pen that draws three-dimensional images and has the capacity to change t...
06 Mar, 2011, 06.23 AM IST
- US University appoints Indian as Dean
Mauli Agrawal has been made the Dean of the College of Engineering by the Texas University at San Antonio.
12 Aug, 2006, 12.26 AM IST