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 …
The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, on Friday stressed the need for setting up a stem cell bank for breeding human cell for research and development of effective cure for diseases. At the fifth Bangalore Bio conference, he said that with more than 25 million births …
An ambitious five-year project to reconstruct a genealogy of the world's different indigenous population groups using an estimated 100,000 voluntary blood samples
Indian scientists plan to clone an Iranian cheetah to revive a species that became extinct in India more than four decades ago, an expert said on Friday, in what would be the country's first animal cloning bid. A team of scientists would soon travel to Iran, one of a handful …
An alarming plunge in the number of monarch butterflies migrating from the US and Canada to Mexican winter colonies has experts worried. Although masses of sleeping butterflies still hang like clumps of dead leaves from branches in the El Rosario sanctuary in central Mexico, biologists say their population this year …
cellulose, a carbohydrate, is a common constituent of all plants. Despite its widespread prevalence, most animals are unable to directly digest it in their own stomachs, because they lack a key gene to enable them to do so. Now, a study conducted in the uk has found genes that can …
The United Kingdom, claimed to be the world leader in stem cell research, has found the right partner in India citing the latter's well established education system, wide network of scientific laboratories and organisations and its pool of natural talent. Inaugurating an eight-day joint conference on stem cell research at …
wildlife ecology debates always wildly swing from doomsday oracles of decimation of species to the exotica of the never-before-found species. The discovery of yet another frog in the Western Ghats has again brought to the fore the controversy about the constant pressure on ecologists to find new species. The new …
scientists from the us Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Johns Hopkins University have discovered two viruses in Cameroon, Africa, that belong to the retrovirus family, which causes several illnesses, including aids. The two
for long, the South Indian elephant population ranging the forests has been treated as one collective. Now, studies conducted by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science have shown that there exists a genetic difference between the elephants in the Nilgiri mountain range and those free-ranging in the Anamalai and …
The Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has told party moderates that the House will vote this year on a proposal to modify President George W. Bush's stem cell research policy, opening another contentious moral, theological and scientific debate about when life begins and ends. Representative Michael Castle, a …
Bangalore is on the verge of a stem cell therapy boom. Following the initial success at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, where 40 heart patients were treated using bone marrow stem cells, the world's biggest medical fantasy is steadily catching the fancy of Bangalore City's leading …
With the help of the Catholic Church, Australian researchers have successfully grown adult stem cells harvested from the human nose, avoiding the ethical and legal problems associated with embryonic stem cells. Australia bans creating human embryos to harvest stem cells but scientists may use embryos left over from IVF (in-vitro …
The Indian Council of Medical Research which is the apex body in the country for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research has so far only formulated draft guidelines. These draft guidelines have "strong recommended "that stem cell research and its clinical application should be promoted in the country, …
Australian research showing that adult stem cells can offer the same therapeutic possibilities as cells drawn from human embryos has been hailed as an ethical breakthrough by the Catholic Church and
The world's first water buffalo, cloned from somatic cells in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is in good shape and healthy, the state media reported today.The buffalo's heart rate, temperature and breathing were normal, it said.About 30 minutes after birth on Thursday, the calf stood up and nursed, the …
In April 2001, researchers from the New York Medical College and the National Institutes of Health announced electrifying news for heart surgeons and their patients : Stem cells from bone marrow, injected into the damaged hearts of mice, had morphed into the special cardiac muscle cells that the body cannot …
"In 1859 Darwin published his theory of common descent through natural selection. I don't think there has ever been a set of theories so heavily attacked or that has had so many alternative theories to face. Look at it now. It stands there, not a dent in it,' said Ernst …
A divided UN General Assembly has adopted a non-binding declaration banning all types of cloning, including for therapeutic purposes, but those who opposed it, including India, said they would go ahead with the research. India joined 34-member States on Tuesday in opposing the document, strongly backed by the Bush administration, …
