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 …
COUPLES seeking parenthood- or not it all - shall heave a sigh of relief that they would not make a mistake, after all. Going by tradition, the few days before and after ovulation (the release of ovum from the ovary) constitute the most fertile period in a woman's monthly biological …
THE liver, a dark red gland situated in the upper right side of the abdomen, performs a wide range of important functions like secretion of bile (important for the digestion of fat) and the conversion of sugars into glycogen. Due to the complex nature of the functions performed by it, …
THE Nobel Prize in Biology for 1995 was awarded jointly to Edward B Lewis of the California Institute of Technology (US), Christiane Nusselein-Volhard of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tubingen (Germany), and Eric Wieschaus of Princeton University, US, for "...discovering how genes control the early structural development of …
A RECENT advance concerning a protein molecule called green fluorescent protein (GFP) promises to lead to improved experimental methods. GFP is found in the jellyfish Aequoria victoria and is capable of spontaneous fluorescence: when illuminated by light at a low wavelength, like daylight, it emits green light at a longer …
Artificial, "but better than the real thing"- is how the new artificial bone material is being described. Developed by William Bonfield of the Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, the material is called Hapex (The Eastern Pharmacist, Vol XXXVIII, No 455). Initially, Hapex will be used to make small replacement …
Every month countless women suffer abdominal pain caused due to the menstrual cycle. Nigel Cronin at the University of Bath, UK, has developed a microwave probe to treat this problem. The probe, inserted into the uterus, sends out heat producing microwaves of 3.3 cm wavelengths which destroy only the endometrium …
A drop of blood, a drop of reagent, a glass slide and 10 seconds is all one needs to detect AIDS. This single step AIDS test has been developed by Delhi University-based bio-chemists helped by the Postgraduate Institute of Medical " Education and Research, Chandigarh (PTI Science Service, October 1-15,1995). …
THUS much maligned drug thalidomide - flushed from the market in the '60s, after a furore over birth defects associated with it - is back. Although touted as an experimental treatment for fatality inducing conditions associated with cancer, organ transplants, Alus anti other diseases, a strong anti-thalidomide lobby has emerged …
A GROUP of 270 fiery advocates forming the National Breast Cancer Coalition, has been persistently and successfully lobbying with the government to increase federal funds on cancer research. Fran Visco, a breast cancer survivor in the us leads this Coalition. The government was spending around us $90 million on breast …
IF WILHELM Roentgen was to see a modern medical imaging laboratory today too years after the first x-ray images he would not recognise it. From ultrasound to magnetic resonance imaging machines, from PET (positron emission tomography) scanners to radionuclides, the range of devices used today for probing the human body …
LUNGS could be a major deciding factor in the development of a sportsperson, says a recent research brought to light by New Scientist, Vol 147, No 1996. The study concluded that it would also be possible to predict whether aspiring atheletes would reach the top. Earlier, for studying the sporting …
Beauty conscious people now need not lose sleep over scars. Wounds from injury or an operation. more often than not leave behind ugly reminders in the form of scars. Now, A stitch in time researcher Mark Ferguson at the University of Manchester UK, offers hope in the form of a …
WHILE an alcoholic mother-to-be guzzles her drinks happily, the child in the womb bears the brunt. Heavy drinking during pregnancy plays havoc with the normal development of the foetus, setting in a set of birth defects called foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Although identified first in 1968, FAS remains an enigma …
IT is quite a common practice to pop in iron tablets to regain that glow of health. The efficacy of such iron supplementation has been questioned lately, due to a dismal record of its treating iron cleficiency. Researchers set out to find ways to improve iron supplementation programme, and one …
Take heart .. says Imutran, a Chambridge-based British biotechoology firm to ailing heart patients. It is preparing to present them with a brand new set of is organ that will be carved out i special breed of transgenic p dleveloped specifically for pairpose. The pigs are unique ammir their organs …
A NERVOUS stroke results in the patient losing his ability to lift his foot up; he has to drag his foot along the ground for walking. Such neurological disabilities call for re-educating and exercising the impaired muscles. Keeping this in view, a research team headed by Ian Swain at the …
THE fact that mother's milk protects babies from lung and gut infections is well established. While investigating the mechanism of this unique property of breast milk, Swedish scientists recently stumbled accidentally on an unexpected effect of it - the ability to fight cancer, reports New Scientist (Vol 147, No 1992, …
Three independent US resm teams trying to uncover the strau adopted by the malaria parasite sneak past the immune defenses the host, have converged on I same group of genes. Russell Howard, Santa Ch biotech company and Louis Mil and Thomas Wellems, National institute of Allergy and Infectiv Diseases, showed …
RESEARCHERS are now preparing a Unique"cocktail" to cure those unfortunate me ones stricken by the deathly dis, AIDS. Scientists working with the Vju' scheme, sponsored by medical 0stch agencies in Australia and 7 mpean countries - Britain, Ireland, pice, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands d Switzerland - have come up with …
YET another clue has been found which might help unravel the mystery surrounding cancer. Three chemists, working at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, us, have discovered how nitrosamines -- normally inert organic compounds found in cigarette smoke, some processed foods, medicines and cosmetics -- could be activated in the …
