Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
The European table and wine grape Vitis vinifera contains high levels of tannins and phenols, which interfere with cell culture. These compounds oxidise quickly and promote the decay of grape cells. A group of scientists in Israel have shown that the addition of anti-oxidants like polyvinylpolypyrolidone and dithiothrietol, helps overcome …
IF FEAR of tooth decay is what stops you from having starchy food, it will soon be relegated to the past. A revolution in the field of dentistry is on the anvil. Soon, we may even be able to eliminate tooth decay by just biting into a fruit. A remarkable …
A vaccine developed &om; genetically engineered cells has been found to eradicate tumours from the brains of laboratory rats. Developed by cancer scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles, US, the vaccine is expected to be tested on humans this year. Lead researcher Habib Fakhrai explained that the …
The halo that surrounded it is slowly coming apart. Dubbed as the final solution for all that ailed humans, genetic engineering, or the manipulation of genetic material so as to alter the genes and hence the organism concerned, is today the target of wide-ranging criticism. The recent revelation which exposed …
IT TOOK a simple laboratory dish to create one of the most awesome break- throughs in science - hundreds of genetically identical sheep. The feat was recently performed by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and their colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. The process itself does not seem too complex …
Celltech, the UK-based biotech firm, has tested a new drug against rheumatoid arthritis. Thegeneti- cally engineered drugCDP 571, is based on a synthetic antibody. The antibody blocks the action of the protein that attacks the joints of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers ( The Eastern Phannacist, Vo138, No 453). When tried on …
LIFE probably evolved from the primeval soup some 3-4 billion years ago, when the first complex organic polymers were synthesised in the form of a small chain of ribonucleic acid (RNA). Initially the evolution of singlecell organisms like bacteria took; place and then a slow evolution of multicellular organisms occurred. …
Genetic diversity refers to the variation of genes within a species.Each variety within a species contains unique genes, and the diversity of genes within a species increases its ability to adopt to pollution diseases and other environmental changes.When these varieties are destroyed, the genetic diversity within the species diminishes. The …
GENETICALLY engineered, unusually tomatoes, which have a protect mechanism against cancer and heart diseases, may come up as the answer to the caloric-conscious'craving for heal food (New Scientist, Vol 147, No 1995) Developed by Peter Bramley any colleagues at the Royal Holloway College, London, these tomatoes contain large amounts of …
CASSAVA, the staple crop of over 500 million people across rural Africa, Asia all America can prove to be fatal if no properly. But researchers working the University of Newcastle in UK hope provide farmers with genetically safer varieties of the crop (New Scientists 147, No 1995). Cassava root contains …
Two groups,in the US - the Pure Food Campaign and the Coalition Against Life Patents - orgardsed a protest, and picket in New York and Chicago on September, 27, The protest was to draw attention to the possible dangers presented by genetically engineered plants, seeds, fruits and vegetables. The groups …
The popular use of the term DNA 'fingerprinting' has resulted from normal fingerprinting becoming synonymous with crime detection. In any case, DNA profiling, which is the correct term for the method used in investigating Naina Sahni's murder-(and many other cases), had an ancestor in the Inspector General of Police of …
IT is not so long since scientists claimed to have deciphered the code of life: the deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA, as it is commonly known, had foxed scientists ever since it was discovered as the key player in genetic transfer of characters in all forms of life. Interestingly, close on the …
The past couple of decades has seen massive progress in the field of genetics and its role in individual differences and developments. Development and behavioural potential of individuals is determined by dna in the genome, but behavioural patterns may be moulded by environmental factors. Quantitative genetic methods can be used …
INDIA's vast genetic resources will now have a protective cover with the setting up of the National Research Centre for Finger Printing of Animal and Plant Species in New Delhi. The centre, under the aegis of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), will be involved mainly in cataloguing the …
GENETIC information is extremely precious and insurance companies should not be allowed a free-hand with them: this is the opinion of mps who form the Science and Technology Committee in UK's House of Commons. So far, the insurance firms have been treating the issue of genetic testing with "undue complacency", …
Scientists at the Australia-based Queensland Institute of Medical Research have given the green light to the establishment of "DNA Vaccines" as the obvious choice of the future (Biotechnology, Vol 3, No 5). While the 2 earlier developments in vaccination included, first, using attenuated or killed forms of organisms, and second, …
NEW advances in dna sequence research are likely to perk up the bottomlines of medical technology firms in Britain and the us. A boost too, is expected to the worldwide Human Genome Project that seeks to unravel the exact order of the 3 billion molecules comprising the human dna. In …
TWO groups of scientists have developed techniques to genetically alter banana (Musa species) cells to make the plant disease- resistant and introduce other improvements in it. This is significant when one considers that in some areas of the world up to half the banana yield is lost to fungal and …
GENETICALLY engineered potatoes that produce their own insecticide may soon hit supermarkets in the us. The special bug killing spud has been produced by incorporating a gene from a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis that-produces a pesticide called Bt, into the potato plant. Incorporating the gene for Bt into a potato …
