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Unlike current scaffolds, the 3D patch has high cell density, a foremost requirement for heart tissue. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have fabricated a 3D cardiac tissue…
The device can simultaneously measure the amount of motion taking place in all the three joints during any activity or gesturing. A thin, light, wearable gesture-tracking device that behaves like…
A rice variety originally from West Bengal is able to accumulate high concentration of the metal in its grain. It is a rice variety with a silver touch, literally. Garib-sal…
As the drug delivery is better and bioavailability gets improved reduced dosage is sufficient to kill the bacteria. A new antibiotic drug-delivery system that improves the efficacy of drugs thereby…
As scientists repair a genetic mutation in a human embryo, the ethical debate has been revived. Scientists have for the first time managed to edit genes in a human embryo…
Lower nicotine content in cigarettes is an idea whose time has come. On July 28, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration struck panic among tobacco companies by announcing a…
The increase in temperature during the cropping season reduces crop yields, thus resulting in increased suicides. Climate change has led to over 59,000 farmer suicides over the last 30 years…
Controlling the level of telomerase can probably prevent cancer metastasis. Researchers at Delhi’s CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) have found the mechanism by which controlling the levels of…
