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 …
Scientists have devised two new techniques to drive embryonic stem cells in mice,one of which avoids the destruction of the embryo, a development that could have the potential to shift the grounds of the longstanding political debate about human stem cell research. The destruction of embryos is a principal objection …
After a freak accident, student Rachel North was told she might never see again. When she suffered an epileptic fit in the shower, near-boiling water poured over her face as she lay unconscious, severely scalding her eyes. Although the sight in her right eye gradually returned, doctors feared the 19-year …
Prominent Victorian Liberal Sophie Panopoulos has branded therapeutic cloning for stem cell research "a depraved practice" and said the State Government was hypocritical for supporting it. Ms Panopoulos, the federal member for Indi in Victoria's north, said the State Government's support for embryonic stem cell research was inconsistent with its …
US scientists have developed two new ways of generating embryonic stem cells, designed to avoid some of the ethical objections to current methods that involve destroying "potential human life". The journal Nature published papers on both techniques in its online edition yesterday. They work well in mice and the researchers …
Scientists have devised two new techniques designed to alleviate ethical concerns. In one, the cells are derived without the need to destroy an embryo, the principal objection of anti-abortion advocates who have strenuously opposed federal financing of the research. The other technique makes a skin cell revert to the embryonic …
avian influenza viruses in Southeast Asia are developing resistance to drugs faster than the strains found in North America, says a study done at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee, usa. The St Jude team analysed sequence data (refers to the makeup of gene responsible) of the m2 protein …
Geroge O Daley says there are legitimate reasons to do stem cell work. Stem cells can in theory grow into any of the body's tissues and organs. But embryonic stem cells are frown from human embryos after they have grown for about five days in the lab, and obtaining those …
1996: Dolly (sheep): The first mammal cloned from the cell of adult sheep 2001: Gaur (wild ox): Born to a cow surrogate, dies within 48 hours 2001: a Mouflon lamb: Clone of an endangered wild sheep native to the Mediterranean region 2003: a banteng (a threatened Javanese cattle): Cloned from …
with the recent release of a draft map of the chimpanzee genome, scientists hope to gain fresh understanding of human evolution since the human-chimp split roughly 6 million years ago. Better conservation of male y chromosome in humans, expression of foxp2 gene
harmful growth of algae that affects the marine ecosystem especially fish, human health and tourism can be controlled using a safe biological weapon, claim researchers. The scientists from the Indian Statistical Institute and the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, both in Kolkata, and the Institute for Environmental Systems Research at …
scientists in the us have unravelled the genetic structure of one of the strongest silks that spiders produce. The discovery could help make super spider-silk products with a wide range of defence, industrial and medical applications. University of California, Riverside professor Cheryl Hayashi and her postdoctoral student Jessica Garb studied …
a bug that thrives in bogs, ponds and lakes could help reduce the incidence of filariasis, claims a group of researchers from the Entomology and Wildlife Research Unit of the Calcutta University and the Darjeeling Government College. The insect, Sphaerodema annulatum, preys on the immature stages (larva and pupa) of …
think of growing chicken pieces without the chicken: no, this is no wild fantasy. In a paper published in the June 29, 2005 issue of the journal Tissue Engineering (Vol 11, No 5/6), an international team of scientists proposes two new techniques of tissue engineering that may lead to industrial …
us researchers have found how some microorganisms can clean groundwater and produce electricity from renewable resources. The ability owes to a highly electrically conductive, tiny structure called microbial nanowire that the scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst discovered in Geobacter. The nanowires are only 3-5 nanometres thick (20,000 times …
In a rare break with US President George W. Bush and Christian conservatives, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist endorsed legislation to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
A clinical trial to test the safety of treating heart attack damage with stem cells is about to get under way, following a study that showed the therapy helped in pigs. Two patients have been enrolled so far at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and a total of 48 are …
In what comes as a relief to the evolutionary biologists, who have been working for long to find clues on how one species branches into two, researchers studying a family of butterflies claim to have witnessed a subtle process which could be forcing a wedge between newly formed species, reports …
A measure to expand federal financing for human embryonic stem cell research, passed by the House and once considered a shoo-in for adoption by the Senate, is tangled up in a procedural dispute that will probably delay a vote until fall - and could wind up killing the bill, its …
Living for days on end 63 feet beneath the waves is a near-ideal situation for researchers studying undersea life, biologist James Lindholm says. Yet sometimes the best-laid experiments can go awry. Lindholm once found himself tracking a large grouper that unexpectedly ate the accompanying smaller fish he had tagged electronically …
Philippe Cousteau, president of the environmental advocacy group EarthEcho International, said growing coral in captivity is "very cutting-edge stuff . . . there are only a few people doing it." Coral reefs, including Australia's noted Great Barrier Reef, sustain much of the world's tropical-sea ecology. Reefs not only house a …
