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Author: Prasad Ravindranath

Science Editor with @The_Hindu, Chennai, India. DO GET IN TOUCH WITH ME AT prasad.thehindu@gmail.com IF YOU HAVE SOME INTERESTING RESULTS THAT CAN BE PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU NEWSPAPER AND ALSO IN MY BLOG. You can also reach me on twitter @RPrasad12 and Facebook /prasad.ravindranath. I write on health, medicine, environment, and technology.
Posted on September 4, 2018September 4, 2018

MDR-TB treatment gets a boost with the inclusion of bedaquiline in the fully-oral regimen

In a “rapid communication”, WHO has informed all member States to take “immediate steps” to ensure that all injectables are replaced with a fully-oral regimen that includes bedaquiline to treat…

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Posted on September 3, 2018September 3, 2018

Podcast: IISc superconductivity claim faces another jolt

Satishchandra Ogale at IISER Pune explains that though the gold-silver thin films synthesised by his team is different from IISc’s Au-Ag nanosized films and pellets and the microstructure is also…

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Posted on September 3, 2018September 4, 2018

IISc superconductivity claim gets another jolt, IISER Pune finds no superconductivity in Au/Ag films

After Brian Skinner, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, raised a red flag after noticing nearly identical noise in two presumably independent measurements in IISc superconductivity study, IISER…

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Posted on September 3, 2018September 3, 2018

Podcast: Drug target to treat Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and cancer discovered

Researchers at the Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar have identified the novel mechanism by which misfolded proteins form aggregates and get degraded in the cells. They have discovered that downregulation…

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Posted on September 1, 2018September 3, 2018

Bhubaneswar team discovers a drug target for neurodegenerative diseases, cancer

Institute of Life Sciences researchers have discovered that downregulation of a protein drug target can help in the treatment of cancers, while activation can do the same for neurodegerative diseases such…

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Posted on September 1, 2018September 2, 2018

IITM: Ocean mean temperature better predicts Indian summer monsoon

Researchers at Pune’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology report that ocean mean temperature is more accurate in predicting Indian monsoon than sea surface temperature, which is used routinely. While the…

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Posted on August 29, 2018August 29, 2018

Only 41% in Haryana believe in evolution

Following Satyapal Singh’s denial of evolution, a small survey of over 1,700 individuals (both adults and children) from 12 States in India found that public acceptance of evolution was high…

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Posted on August 28, 2018August 30, 2018

Science communication: Hey directors, leave the researchers alone!

Even as DST is taking steps to promote science communication, researchers at certain government labs and academic institutions are prevented from communicating even their published work with the media without…

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