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Posted on December 26, 2018

Podcast: Diagnosing krait snake venom

Anjali Anand from Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad explains how researchers from THSTI, AIIMS and IIT Indore found the aptamer originally developed against alpha toxin of Bungarus multicinctus krait…

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Posted on December 1, 2018

Podcast: Increasing Li-ion battery’s capacity, charging speed

Kingshuk Roy of IISER Pune explains how the novel anode made of silicon-phosphorene mixture for use in Li-ion batteries has five times more capacity than carbon-based electrodes and can be…

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Posted on December 1, 2018

Podcast: How progesterone protects breast cancer patients unravelled

Dr. Amit Dutt of ACTREC-Tata Memorial Centre explains how progesterone administered prior to breast cancer surgery helps in reducing the chances of migration and invasion of cancer cells to other…

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Posted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018

Podcast: New diagnostic tests for TB

Tarun Sharma explains how the team developed highly sensitive and specific diagnostic tests for pulmonary TB and pleural TB. The diagnostic tests make use of a DNA aptamer that shows high…

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Posted on November 4, 2018November 4, 2018

Podcast: Treating chikungunya using tamarind seed protein

 Shailly Tomar of IIT Roorkee explains how her team found a protein in tamarind seeds that binds to NAG sugar molecule on chikungunya virus and reduces infectivity by 64% and RNA…

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Posted on October 28, 2018October 30, 2018

Podcast: Making bone marrow transplantation more successful

Vaijayanti Kale from NCCS explains how micro-vesicles containing certain factors increase homing and engraftment potential of hematopoietic stem cells. These micro-vesicles also help in expanding hematopoietic stem cells before transplantation.…

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Posted on October 26, 2018October 28, 2018

Podcast: Removing oil from water using aloe vera

Uttam Manna of IIT Guwahati explains how his team synthesised an extremely oil-repelling (super oleophobic) membrane using an aloe vera gel-based coating modified with some molecules to remove oil from…

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Posted on October 20, 2018October 20, 2018

Podcast: Finding a potential target for treating gallbladder cancer

Dr. Amit Dutt from Tata Memorial Centre explains how the team using different approaches identified the mutations that cause gallbladder cancer. They found that a drug that is already in…

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