Tag: CSIR
‘Pharmacy of the world’ is in peril
The latest study has identified key reasons for India increasingly losing out in the drug market, and the reasons why China is succeeding............
Need to break the mindset of working in silos, says Dr...
Union S&T Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan has urged the concerned ministries and departments to identify commonalities for technological solutions that can be taken to various stakeholders...........
CSIR forges synergistic partnership with the Japanese universities
The Director-General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr Girish Sahni, led a delegation to Japan for vitalizing CSIR's ongoing partnership with the Japanese universities and R&D organizations .............
India’s R&D expenditure trebled between 2004 to 2015
The gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) has more than tripled from Rs. 24,117 crore to Rs. 85,326 crore in the decade from 2004-05 to 2014-15..........
Bacteria can breakdown biodiesel waste into useful products
Scientists have identified two bacterial strains which can use crude glycerol as carbon as well as energy source for production of commercially valuable compounds................
Study of individual DNA can translate into better healthcare
Researchers have shown that a person’s genome determines his or her susceptibility towards certain diseases and response to treatment...........
Scientists develop new technique to make biodiesel much more cleaner
Researchers treated crude glycerol with a bacterium called Bacillus amyloliquefaciens CD16 and were able to produce 3.2 liters of hydrogen gas fuel from a liter of crude glycerol waste mix in a single day............
Scientists decipher how Salmonella survives in human cells
According to the study, pathogens have evolved several tactics to manipulate the activity of host proteins, all at aimed at creating their intracellular replicative niche..........
Quick, cost-effective method to identify throat infections in offing
The device, a DNA chip-based sensor, consists of a carbon electrode embedded with gold nanoparticles to improve electronic properties.............
Wild tomatoes can help in making commercial varieties disease-free
Scientists have identified biochemical and molecular mechanisms in wild tomato that makes them resistant to early blight. This knowledge can be used to improve commercial varieties and develop tomato cultivars resistant to EB in future..................