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Posted on October 9, 2020

CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology: In a first, an all-women team wins the Nobel Prize

That scientists who pioneered the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology, the biggest game-changer in biology in recent years, will win the Nobel Prize was never in doubt; it was only a question of when and who would get recognised for the work done to develop the tool.

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Posted on January 18, 2020February 3, 2020

IIT Bombay team removes heavy metals from water with greater efficiency

IIT Bombay researchers have fabricated a carbon-based nanostructure that is capable of simultaneously adsorbing with very high efficiency four heavy metals — arsenic, chromium, cadmium and mercury — from wastewater.…

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Posted on January 11, 2020February 3, 2020

IIT Madras designs room temperature sodium sulphur battery

IIT Madras researchers have fabricated a new sodium sulphur battery that can be operated at room temperature and not at 300 degree C as is the case now. They achieved…

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Posted on October 5, 2019

IISER Pune synthesises a photocatalyst to degrade organic pollutants

IISER Pune researchers have converted the highly unstable perovskite into a ultra-stable photocatalyst that can decompose toxic organic pollutants commonly present in water. The photocatalyst was synthesised by encapsulating nanocrystals…

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Posted on September 14, 2019September 14, 2019

IIT Madras finds an eco-friendly way to degrade plastics

IIT Madras researchers have demonstrated an eco-friendly way to degrade a few types of plastics. All that is required to degrade the plastics into molecules is continuous stirring of the…

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Posted on August 10, 2019

IIT Madras registers initial success with iron ion battery

Researchers from IIT Madras have for the first time fabricated a rechargeable iron ion battery using mild steel as the anode. The iron ion battery is cost-effective and has 54%…

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Posted on July 26, 2019July 29, 2019

IIT Madras develops breath humidity sensor for wearable electronics

IIT Madras researchers have fabricated a sensor that can measure minute variations in relative humidity levels in the exhaled breath. It can detect ethanol and acetone in the oral breath…

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Posted on March 17, 2019March 17, 2019

IIT Guwahati’s chitosan-based gel selectively removes oil or water 

Researchers at IIT Guwahati have chemically modified the chitosan to make it selectively remove either oil or water phase from an oil-water mixture. In a first, they made it possible…

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