NEW DELHI: In what is the world’s first Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), India has completed documenting over two lakh medical formulations of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani to save them from piracy. After eight years of toil, over 200 scientists and researchers from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Union health ministry’s [...]
MOSCOW: According to a Swedish Study, a leading Russian scientist says that the use of cell phones from an early age could lead to brain tumours. “We have a very cautious attitude as regards children, our future generation. There is data suggesting that brain tumours could develop,” Yury Grigoryev, a leading scientist at the Burnazyan [...]
WASHINGTON: A brewing company in the US is adapting a new system that will make its own high-quality ethanol fuel from discarded beer yeast. According to a report in Live Science, the company, known as the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., in Chico, California, has developed the new system, in collaboration with E-Fuel Corporation. The company [...]
WASHINGTON: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first drug made using genetically engineered animals, clearing the way for a new class of medical therapies. The drug, GTC Biotherapeutics Inc’s anti-clotting therapy Atryn, is an intravenous therapy made using a human protein gathered from female goats that have been scientifically altered to [...]
TORONTO: BlackBerry co-CEOs and top executives were collectively fined $77 million for their role in a stock option backdating controversy at the wireless communication giant. The provincial Ontario Securities Commission, which has been investigating the two co-CEOs — Jim Balsillie and Michael Lazaridis — and other executives for their role in the controversy dating from [...]
DARWIN, AUSTRALIA: A light aircraft made an emergency landing in shallow water in an Australian harbour on Friday and the pilot and five passengers waded safely to shore, authorities said. The Piper Chieftain was carrying a group of IT technicians bound for a remote Aboriginal desert community to do computer maintenance when it ditched shortly [...]
LONDON: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ won three of the top honours given by UK film critics including best British film, reports BBC. Danny Boyle was named British director of the year at the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards for the film Simon Beaufoy got the prize for screenwriter of the year. The film has picked up a [...]
For the first time, a team of researchers led by doctors at Columbia University Medical Center may have found a genetic answer to the source of epilepsy. After searching through the entire genome structure of 38 different families of a patient, the researchers discovered a gene, elongator protein complex 4, or ELP4, that is linked [...]
Hansika Motwani is very happy these days. She has three Hit movies in a raw, which is very rare in Bollywood. This young actress is lucky to achive what others dream for. Read more at With Maska Hansika scores a Hat Trick.
MELBOURNE: A Kiwi business woman is trying to spice up the romance of Valentine’s Day by offering chocolates fortified with Tongkat Ali – a potent herb from southeast Asia which is claimed to stimulate testosterone production in men. Last year, Hanna Frederick, a former food scientist, made headlines by feeding beer-flavoured chocolate to brewers and [...]
