Biotech & pharma
Itch-causing molecule unmasked
29 May 2013
Scientists sequence genome of Norway spruce
23 May 2013
Cause of genetic disease discovered
23 May 2013
Probing the power of stem cells
By By Candace Pearson | 18 May 2013
Researchers transform biological cells into living calculators.
By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 16 May 2013
Using analog computation circuits, MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three or fewer genetic parts
Non-inherited mutations account for many heart defects
By By Bill Hathaway | 14 May 2013
UK researchers develop new `superwheat’
13 May 2013
The development of the new wheat that gives 30 per cent more yield did not involve any genetic modification, according to the scientists
Controlled cellular sabotage
08 May 2013
Decoded: molecular messages that tell prostate, breast cancers to spread
03 May 2013
For the first time scientists have decoded the molecular chatter that ramps certain cancer cells into overdrive and can cause tumours to spread throughout the body
Biologists produce rainbow-coloured algae
02 May 2013
Secrets of bacterial slime revealed
30 Apr 2013
Fingerprinting malaria parasite drug resistance
29 Apr 2013
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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
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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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
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