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Lab-grown meat would 'cut emissions and save energy'
21 Jun 2011
Meat grown using tissue engineering techniques, so-called ‘cultured meat’, would generate up to 96% lower greenhouse gas emissions than conventionally produced meat, according to a new study
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Nanoparticles disguised as red blood cells to deliver cancer-fighting drugs
By By Catherine Hockmuth | 21 Jun 2011
The method involves collecting the membrane from a red blood cell and wrapping it like a powerful camouflaging cloak around a biodegradable polymer nanoparticle stuffed with a cocktail of small molecule drugs
Swarming nanoparticles communicate to boost drug concentrations near tumours
By By Susan Brown | 21 Jun 2011
New breakthrough in high blood pressure research
17 Jun 2011
TRC researchers isolate new molecule to fight TB
16 Jun 2011
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Why we are so complicated
16 Jun 2011
The complex web of protein interactions in our cells may be masking an ever-worsening problem.
"Chemobath" for colon cancer undergoes evaluation
By By Jackie Carr | 11 Jun 2011
Trapping deadly human viruses using decoys
08 Jun 2011
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Major breakthrough in shrimp research at Andhra Pradesh
07 Jun 2011
The technology involves sex reversal of scampi males into functional females through microsurgical intervention and mating them with normal males to produce all-male progeny
Neutrons provide first sub-nanoscale snapshots of Huntington's disease protein
By By Agatha Bardoel | 06 Jun 2011
Advances in chemical synthesis reveal rare natural product with potent pain-killing properties
03 Jun 2011
Potential new drug candidate found for Alzheimer's disease
By By Debra Kain | 01 Jun 2011
Pancreas betrayed by 'double agent'
30 May 2011
How shifts in temperature primes immune response
By By Laura Bonetta | 28 May 2011
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
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
06 Mar 2023
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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