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 …
Researchers Create Sugar From Sunlight In US Lab Washington: In what could be claimed a major breakthrough, scientists have produced sugar from solar energy, using plant, bacterial, frog and fungal enzymes. A team at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, has focused its work on making an artificial photosynthetic material, which …
A liquid always tries to fill the space it gets; humans adapt to the freezing temperatures of Greenland and to the near-burning heat of Africa; birds sing louder to be heard in a noisy locality. What about the fish? Well, fish evolve by changing their shape to swim more efficiently …
RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY A scientist in the Institute of Life Science (ILS) here, a research body functioning under department of biotechnology, government of India, on Monday claimed to have discovered that the extract of mangrove plants can cure breast cancer. ILS sources said this would prove to be a major …
New information on how plants breathe may help scientists engineer plants that require less water, according to a report published this month in Nature Cell Biology. While it has been known for half a century that a plant
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, in association with Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) is organising an Indo-US Workshop on Epigenetic Regulation and Genome Control from December 16-18. Dr S.K. Brahmachari, Director-General, Council of Scientific, Industrial Research (CSIR), who is the Chief Guest, will also deliver …
The breakthrough paves the way for predictive healthcare and the possibility of identifying why certain people (with particular gene sequences) do not respond to certain medications, and what diseases a particular gene carrier, or a population, is likely to develop. While the actual genome sequencing was completed in 45 days, …
Breakthrough In Rabbits Helps Them Mate; May Help Grow Complex Body Parts Washington: Researchers have engineered artificial penises in rabbits, using cells from the animals, who then used their new organs to father baby rabbits. The work takes scientists closer to making other complex solid organs such as livers using …
LUCKNOW: The state forest department is making several efforts to extend protection to endangered Indopiptadenia oudhensis, locally called `genti' or `haathipaula'. It is a perennial tree variety whose existence has shrunk to border areas of Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand, close to Nepal. In UP, this variety is confined to Suhelwa …
Top 100 Species Ranked On Basis Of Longevity, Impact On Earth And Evolutionary Success London: The humble earthworms have pipped mankind and dinosaurs to emerge as the most successful 100 species on Earth in a new league table. Christopher Lloyd, the author of
TIRUCHI: The Mahatma Gandhi-Doerenkamp Centre for Alternatives to Animal Use in Life Science Education was opened at Bharathidasan University here on Friday to mark the 140th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Centre, , the first of its kind in Asia and a joint endeavour of the university, the Chennai-based …
Who were the first Indians? Were they the chocolate-hued Dravidian southerners or the dark-skinned tribals that inhabit East India and the Andaman islands? Was the relatively fair Indo-European population of the North the original settler? Or did the Mongoloid-featured Tibetan-Burmans beat the rest to it? When and how did the …
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are strung out in isolated emerald splendour across the Bay of Bengal. It is their inaccessibility that has helped put them on the global genetic map. Lalji Singh, former director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), for one believes that the islands' dwindling tribal …
Sept. 18: Union health and family welfare minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the Centre favours therapeutic cloning (cloning of human tissues and organs) on a case-to-case basis. The minister also said that the Centre would soon come out with a bill on stem cell research and its application. Mr …
ornithology Birds love noise The house finch and the black-chinned hummingbird are unaffected by noise pollution. In fact, they prefer to nest in noisier areas because it increases their chances of survival. A team isolated the effects of noise pollution on bird communities. For this they chose regions with natural …
