IIT Bombay’s microfluidic device that rapidly measures stiffness of human cells can help investigate relation between stiffness and disease condition

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Mandi
29 Oct 2018

Researchers from IIT Mandi, and the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, have found molecules that could potentially stop cancer cells from flushing out drugs. This research could lead to a cure for multidrug resistance in cancer cells.

Pune
6 Dec 2018

Researchers from the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune and Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, have identified a novel noncoding RNA that causes cancer in mice.

Mumbai
20 Jun 2018

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have developed a new life-saving device that can detect heart attacks early on using a smartphone. The innovative sensor, conceptualised by students Debasmita Mondal and Sourabh Agrawal, and guided by Prof. Soumyo Mukherji, won the recently presented 2018 Gandhian Young Technological Innovation award recently.

New Delhi
5 Dec 2018

A team of Irish and Indian biologists from the University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, the Natural History Museum (NHM), UK, and the University of Delhi (DU), India, have provided detailed descriptions of these newly discovered frogs.

Mumbai
18 Jul 2018

Study from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and TIFR demonstrates a method to turn heat into usable spin current

Bengaluru
3 Dec 2018

Researchers from NCBI, RRI, University of Barcelona, CSIR - Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, CNCI, and University of Queensland tried to understand how cells maintain their shapes in spite of expelling material from their membrane.

 

Bengaluru
31 Jul 2018

IIT Bombay professor surveys strategies for applying game theory to distribution of electricity

Lucknow
3 Dec 2018

Palaeontologists from India have discovered fossil evidence of a hominid species at Tapar in the Kutch basin of Gujarat.

New Delhi
29 Nov 2018

A nationwide collaborative study, by 53 institutes, has found that one out of eight children, between two and nine years, has at least one neurodevelopmental disorder.

Bengaluru
28 Nov 2018

Researchers from the Shanghai University, China and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, have developed a novel model that takes many characteristics of the population into account to make demographic projections for India.