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Rajiv Gandhi University (formerly Arunachal University) is the premier institution for higher education in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. Ever since its inception, the...

The journey of Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), popularly known as Pusa Institute, began in 1905 at Pusa (Bihar) with the generous grant of...

Napping for more than an hour in the daytime may raise the risk of Type 2 diabetes by 45 per cent a new study...

Biocon is an integrated biotechnology enterprise focused on the development of biopharmaceuticals. With successful initiatives in drug discovery and development, bioprocessing, manufacturing and global...

Manipal University is synonymous with excellence in higher education. Over 28,000 students from 57 different nations live, learn and play in the sprawling University town, nestled on a...

Periyar University imparts higher education at three levels, i.e., through its Departments of Study and Research, Periyar Institute of Distance Education (PRIDE) and the...

University of Florida researchers have identified a patient in Haiti with a serious mosquito-borne illness that has never before been reported in the Caribbean...

Researchers from the University of Maryland Fischell Department of Bioengineering and the University of Maryland School of Medicine report a new way to "turn...

Remnants of extinct monkeys are hiding inside you, along with those of lizards, jellyfish and other animals. Your DNA is built upon gene fragments...

The older we get, the more difficult it becomes to put the world around us in order. Yet, our brain develops remarkable strategies to...

Researchers from the Christiana Care Health System have used short segments of synthetic single-stranded DNA, or oligonucleotides, to achieve a “cleaner ‘cut’” of the...

A highly influential and long-awaited report from the United Nations has attacked the market-based R&D approach used by the biopharma industry, but an industry...

An influential group of experts from the FDA has said that small cap Spectrum’s ($SPPI) experimental bladder cancer med Qapzola (apaziquone) isn’t good enough...

Stroke and brain injury diagnostic specialist Neural Analytics scored a $3 million cash infusion from the National Institutes of Health to help fund the...

Therapeutic interventions of various kinds try to improve the body’s capacity to defend, repair, and even cure itself. Interventions that attempt to enhance self-healing...

A drug prescribed to many patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder may decrease negative symptoms for people with a certain variant of the COMT...

Coral reefs are home to over 25 percent of all marine fish species plus other species like sea turtles. Reefs protect shorelines from major...

Fish scales contain collagen fibers that possess a piezoelectric property, which means that an electric charge is generated in them in response to mechanical...

Madurai Kamaraj University, is on its relentless journey for the past 48 years surmounting hurdles of indigenous and exotic nature on its way and...

Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) is an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. It was established in 1946...