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The viruses, notoriously known for the seasonal flu and deadly diseases like AIDS, are the smallest of all the microorganisms. As potent they may be, the intriguing part about viruses is they are inactive when outside a living cell! They become active and multiply only when they enter and infect a living cell.

Researchers from the St. John’s Research Institute, Bengaluru, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru in collaboration with the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center, UK, try to answer how much of the proteins that we eat is actually digested and absorbed by the body.

On the 25th of October, 2018, an event was organised in New Delhi to celebrate the successes of a decade-long Indo-UK collaboration in research and innovation, and to mark the launch of the UK Research and Innovation India (UKRI India).

भारतीय प्रौद्योगिक संस्थान, मुंबई के छात्र ने खिड़की पर लगाए जाने वाले सौर ऊर्जा द्वारा संचालित कुकर का आविष्कार कर ‘गांधीवादी युवा प्रौद्योगिकी अभिनव पुरस्कार’ जीता है।

जमिनीच्या पृष्ठभागाच्या तापमानवाढीमुळे शहरी भागावर असलेले धुक्याचे आवरण विरून जात आहे असे अभ्यासांती उघड झाले आहे.

This study, by researchers from Hungary, India, France and the USA, explored the potential of some new chemical compounds as therapeutic agents against tuberculosis. Such compounds represent new possibilities for further anti-TB drug development.

Cancer, a condition where healthy cells in the body grow out of control and instead of undergoing programmed death, keep multiplying without a check, has now become quite widespread. Most of us are familiar with the disease either through personal experience or a loved one battling it.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science design a compact and fast piezoelectric crash sensor.

The beauty of nature lies in its resilience. A testament to this is Japan’s Pale Grass Blue Butterfly, Zizeeria maha. It’s ability to become radiation resistant by undergoing adaptive evolution is a metamorphosis catalysed by tragic beginnings.

Researchers from the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, report that the diversity of earthworms enriches the carbon content of the soil.