Biotech & pharma
Lab-grown human heart cells could mean fewer animals used in research
By By Sam Wong | 06 Mar 2014
Pill could help humans live longer, healthier
01 Mar 2014
Chemical chaperones help proteins do their jobs
27 Feb 2014
Research in the News: Tiny ‘garbage collectors’ help control brain development
By By Bill Hathaway | 20 Feb 2014
Scarring cells turned to beating muscle
14 Feb 2014
Dental study provides wealth of stem cell details
By By Beth Newcomb | 08 Feb 2014
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A microchip for metastasis
By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 08 Feb 2014
Researchers design a microfluidic platform to see how cancer cells invade specific organs
Protein that culls damaged eggs identified, infertility reversed
By By Krishna Ramanujan | 05 Feb 2014
Autistic brains create more information at rest
03 Feb 2014
Cell cycle speed is key to making aging cells young again
By By Bill Hathway | 01 Feb 2014
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In the brain, timing is everything
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 25 Jan 2014
Neuroscientists have now discovered how two neural circuits in the brain work together to link memories of events that occur one after the other.
Drug strategy blocks a leading driver of cancer
By By Jeffrey Norris | 20 Jan 2014
Scientists develop new approach to study how genetic variants affect gene expression
By By Kim Irwin | 20 Jan 2014
![Molecular nano-spies to make light work of disease detection Molecular nano-spies to make light work of disease detection](/technology/biotech_pharma/images/nano_spies_sm_domain-b.jpg)
Molecular nano-spies to make light work of disease detection
16 Jan 2014
A world of cloak-and-dagger pharmaceuticals has come a step closer with the development of stealth compounds programmed to spring into action when they receive the signal.
Turning up the heat on enzyme design
15 Jan 2014
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In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
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By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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