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Completion of treatment critical for prostate cancer patients’ survival’
New Delhi, April 10 (India Science Wire): The world recorded an estimated 1.4 million new cases of prostate cancer and 0.37 million deaths in 2020. India reported 34,540 incidences and 16,783 deaths, which is more than 60% of the…
Anantnag Boy wins Gold Medals in National Science Olympiads
Srinagar, March 27: The new generation of Kashmir continues to prove their mettle in whatever field they are tested in- be it sports or education.
This time a 9-year-old class-II student from Anantnag bags two gold medals of…
CSIR-IIIM organises training workshop about medicinal, aromatic plants and crude drugs
Jammu, March 25 A five days National Hands-on Workshop on "Taxonomic Identification & Authentication of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants & Crude Drugs in Biodiversity Conservation, Traditional Knowledge and Drug Discovery"…
In a first, para pharyngeal tumour surgery performed at GMC Anantnag
Jahangeer Ganaie
Anantnag, Mar 24 (KNO): In a first, doctors at government medical college Anantnag performed a rare para pharyngeal tumour surgery on a patient, who was diagnosed with the rare disease.
A…
‘Genetic recombination made Omicron more infectious’
New Delhi, March 23 (India Science Wire): Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 keep changing their genetic makeup to escape human immune response. One of the ways they can change rapidly is 'Genetic Recombination', which happens in a person…
Researchers find proteins that serve as a form of ‘mitotic memory’
New Delhi, February 26 (India Science Wire): Researchers from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB) have identified the proteins that make up the interphase nuclear scaffold called the Nuclear Matrix (NuMat) and the…
Researchers produce cardiac proteins to fix a damaged heart
New Delhi, Feb 20th (India Science Wire): Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have developed a ‘Recombinant Protein Toolbox’ comprising six unique proteins, which can be used to convert healthy…
Saurabh Bhagat reviews setting up of Regional Science Centres at Jammu, Srinagar
New Delhi, Feb 9: Commissioner Secretary, Science and Technology, Saurabh Bhagat, Thursday convened a high level meeting at National Science Centre, a Unit of National Council for Science Museums (NCSM) Union Ministry of Culture,…
IIT-Hyderabad researchers release first official data from InPTA
New Delhi, February 03: Merging black holes emit gravitational waves. However, the waves detected by LIGO are from black holes, which are a few tens of times heavier than the sun, and that experiment cannot detect these very large…
Biopolymer-based scaffold to treat limbal deficiency
New Delhi, Jan 31st (India Science Wire): Limbal deficiency is a general terminology used for eye diseases characterised by the deterioration of limbus, limbal stem cells, and their capacity to refill the corneal epithelium by…