Hyderabad: A study by Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay’s group at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology has unravelled the basis for side-effects of cholesterol-lowering drug statins. Statins are one of the top selling drugs worldwide and are used for lowering cholesterol in patients with high blood cholesterol. Statins have been reported to give rise to […]
Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Jitendra Singh, inaugurated India’s first Open Rock Museum, here on Thursday. The museum displays around 35 different varieties of rocks from different parts of India with ages ranging from 3.3 billion years to around 55 million years. These rocks also represent the deepest […]
New Delhi: Littering on the roads/streets is a major problem in India. The debris (generated by vehicles and pedestrian), biomass (leaves, twigs, etc., causing microbial action in bitumen) and stagnate water enhance road surface abrasion, which is becoming the main bottleneck for maintaining good cleanliness and hygienic standards of Indian roads/streets. Researchers at the CSIR-Central […]
Hyderabad: City-based Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), a constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is collaborating with PI Industries Limited and signed an agreement for technology transfer and manufacture of the anti-Covid drug 2-DG. In the last few months, especially after Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) granted emergency use […]
Hyderabad: Dr. BLV Prasad, an alumnus of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), and Chair, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division of CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), has been appointed as the Director of the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bengaluru. Dr. Prasad completed his M.Sc. Chemistry at the UoH and later obtained PhD from […]
Hyderabad: Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar urged Indian scientists to focus on wildlife forensics, as India undertakes several major conservation efforts for big cats to marine life. Participating in the conclusion of the international virtual conference on ‘Recent Advances and Status of Wildlife Forensics’ organised by CCMB-Laboratory for Conservation of […]
