Why menstrual waste is proving to be a 'big bloody mess' in IndiaThe disposal of sanitary pads in India is causing an environmental crisis due to their plastic content and lack of proper waste management....
02 Oct, 2023, 04.00 PM IST
Scientifically engineered white blood cells can stall cancerous growth: StudyMacrophages, a type of white blood cell, immediately engulf and destroy invaders such as bacteria, viruses, and even implants to remove the...
14 Jun, 2023, 09.37 AM IST
IIT Indore in collaboration with NASA-Caltech develops low-cost camera for multispectral imaging of flameDeshmukh said the low-cost DSLR camera device 'CL-Flam' was developed after nearly three years of research in collaboration with the Univer...
16 Apr, 2023, 11.17 AM IST
Opinion: We’re not ready to be diagnosed by ChatGPTGPT-4, the latest update to ChatGPT, can get a perfect score on medical licensing exams. When it gets something wrong, there’s often a legi...
15 Apr, 2023, 01.06 PM IST
Life after breast removal: A drug researcher’s quest to make prostheses for cancer survivorsAarna Biomedical’s post-mastectomy kit starts at Rs 4,500, half that of comparable international brands. The made in India product is helpi...
07 Nov, 2022, 10.35 AM IST
New research hints at possible connection between Covid-19 virus and Parkinson's diseasePeople with neurodegenerative conditions may be even more vulnerable to Covid-19.
04 Nov, 2022, 06.32 PM IST
COVID-19: Nearly 160 tonnes of biomedical waste generated during Bihar pollsTo ensure safety of voters, polling staff and security personnel in the first-ever polls held amid the pandemic, the Election Commission ha...
15 Nov, 2020, 03.46 PM IST
India plans to double testing capacity through new project: C-CAMPThe Rockefeller Foundation has provided financial support for the project executed by the Bangalore Life Science Cluster, which would impro...
03 Sep, 2020, 09.14 PM IST
NGT directs team of Centre, CPCB to supervise scientific disposal of COVID -19 wasteThe tribunal said that while the Bio Medical Waste Rules deal with waste generated in dealing with infectious diseases, the coronavirus pan...
24 Apr, 2020, 01.03 PM IST
Suits from Vadodara, parachutes from Agra: Inside ISRO's plan to launch India's first astronautsIsro has kickstarted the process of selecting experiments that could be performed in the Low Earth Orbit.
18 Jan, 2019, 12.41 PM IST
- Science, research departments became synergetic under BJP: Harsh Vardhan
Kolkata, May 7 (IANS) The Narendra Modi government has been successful in creating a good synergy among the science and research department...
07 May, 2018, 08.42 PM IST
IIT-M startup bags $1 million order from Singapore firmThe startup Merkel Haptics was formed in 2011 to convert lab work into products, and Touch Lab at the Applied Mechanics Department of IIT M...
09 Aug, 2017, 09.40 AM IST
National Health Policy proposes to give incentives, mandatory rural postingsHealth Minister J P Nadda in Parliament last year had said that the government provides incentives like "hard area allowance" to doctors se...
17 Mar, 2017, 09.58 PM IST
Indian scientists exploiting healing powers of plasmaToday scientists at the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) are using this little known fourth state of matter for healing not only humans ...
22 Jan, 2017, 02.32 PM IST
How health tech startup Innov4Sight is fighting cancer, infertilityThe startup has developed a data analytics platform for oncology, Parsight, that aggregates information on cancer patients for research.
07 Nov, 2016, 06.30 AM IST
Environment Ministry seek public comments on draft waste management rulesThe Ministry has sought the opinion within 60 days on the rules put out separately for managing bio-medical waste, municipal solid waste, p...
09 Apr, 2015, 05.03 PM IST
New system uses video of your face to track health!The new system, called DistancePPG, created by Rice University researchers monitors patients' vital signs via video while compensating for ...
07 Apr, 2015, 06.41 PM IST