Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Injecting human embryonic stem cells into the brains of Parkinson's disease patients may cause tumours to form, US researchers reported on Sunday. Steven Goldman and colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical Centre in New York said human stem cells injected into rat brains turned into cells that looked like …
Man vs monkey: The similarities don't seem to end. Sucking up to win the support of the boss dates back to our furry ancestors. And the motivation, for monkeys, is life and death. Rather than grabbing coffee for the CEO, monkeys have for eons picked dead skin and bugs from …
Private stem cell majors like Reliance Life Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), LifeCell and Cryostem Karnataka Pvt Ltd will soon have to apply for licences under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act as India plans to join a handful of countries regulating stem cells. Currently only the US, Israel, …
It is not a widely known fact, but 25 per cent of the total tea produced in West Bengal and Assam, and other northeastern states is produced by small growers. Their contribution to the total national tea production is 14 per cent. Very few of these small growers are officially …
A tiny bacterium that lives within an insect has by far the smallest set of genes ever discovered in a cellular organism. A US-Japanese research team reports in the journal Science that Carsonelia ruddii has just 160,000 base-pairs (chemical units) of DNA, containing 182 genes.
A lawsuit against a stem cell transplant programme alleges that it failed to ensure its stem cells were in good condition and concealed problems from patients, a newspaper reported. The programme treated 40 adult patients in 1998 and 1999 whose stem cells were processed using a method intended to save …
After four years of extensive research at the nano technology laboratory at Delhi University (DU), Sheetal Soni has achieved a technological breakthrough that is likely to change the way brain diseases are treated in the future. Using nano technology, she has developed hydrogel nano-particles that are capable of penetrating the …
Kuldeep Singh had lost vision while hurling a bomb out of a DTC bus during the Oct 29 New Delhi blasts in 2005. Kuldeep Singh, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus driver, who had lost his eye sight while throwing a bomb out of the bus about a year ago, …
US researchers said on Sunday they had found a more efficient way to clone mice, and said their experiment solved a basic question about cloning science
studies carried out on the genes of a human and a chimpanzee provide a clue to why our brains are three times larger than those of our closest relatives. The studies were conducted by an international team of scientists led by David Haussler of the University of California, Santa Cruz, …
Hardly a week passes without a report on attacks on livestock and humans by crocodiles from the Bhitarakanika sanctuary in Orissa. Saltwater crocodiles in the breeding centre in Bhitarakanika often move to freshwater bodies such as the Brahmani, Kani and Kharashrota rivers
"God's own country is only an advertisement,' declares Cherian saar, a retired teacher in Champakulam, Alappuzha district, Kerala, as he gazes at the Pamba river flowing placidly by. All is not well with the trope of the famed Kerala wetlands, adopted by Kerala tourism as its flagship product. Kuttanad, covering …
us president George W Bush on July 19 used his veto for the first time blocking a popular bill that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. "It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it,' Bush said at a …
eggs of a marine turtle (Caretta caretta) contain a protein with antibacterial and antiviral properties, claims a research team from Kolkata. The protein, found in egg white and called turtle egg-white protein, showed strong activity against Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium, say researchers from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, …
A few decades back, the declining rhino population of Assam was a major conservation problem. But after the 2006 rhino census, the tables have turned. Assam's rhino population has gone up substantially. In Pobitora wildlife sanctuary, for example, there are now 81 animals
sterilising produce: A new method to sterilise fruits and vegetables has been developed, which literally sucks life out of germs. It could replace ozone-depleting chemicals, like methyl bromide, which are currently used to sterilise fresh produce. Called metabolic stress disinfection, the technique was developed by Manuel Lagunas-Solar and his team …
Do you know what is common between a recently taken patent in the field of nanotechnology and a publication on animal behaviour in the journal Science, a little while ago? A report in January 2006 from the Interfax News Agency, Russia, which some greeted with enthusiasm and others dismissed with …
scientists have found how a fish species survives the freezing Antarctic waters. The Antarctic notothenioids produce an "antifreeze protein' that keeps their body fluids from turning into crystals. The study analysed tissue from notothenioids and found the pancreas and stomach are the main sources of fish antifreeze
Scientists have identified two ancient reptiles that swam in ice-cold waters off Australia 115 million years ago and are among the first of their kinds to be found after the Jurassic era, researchers said on Saturday. The discoveries, Umoonasaurus and Opallionectes, belonged to a group of animals called Plesiosaurs, long-necked …
