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New technology assures longer shelf life, season of mangoes
24/03/2018
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Mango lovers now have a reason to rejoice. The fruit, which floods the markets during summer, usually vanishes after that. Now, researchers at the department of nano-science and technology of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) have come up wit...
Lab made hormone may reveal secret lives of plants
19/03/2018
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A new synthetic hormone promises to tease apart the many different roles of the plant hormone auxin and could lead to a new way to ripen fruit.
By developing a synthetic version of the plant hormone auxin and an engineered receptor to recognize it...
New Smartphone Sensor Checks Your Blood Pressure
13/03/2018
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Blood pressure is a growing worldwide problem. More than a third of Americans have high blood pressure, a major cause of heart failure, heart attack, stroke, and chronic kidney disease. Measuring your blood pressure could one day be as simple as pres...
Moving Blood Tests from the Lab to the Consumer
21/01/2018
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It would be great to think that a portable device in your home that, with a drop of blood from a finger prick, could tell you instantly your blood cell counts, vitamin levels, or whether you’re positive for a virus. That’s the dream device of many en...
Waste To Wealth, The Biggest Transformation
18/01/2017
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Vanita Prasad, a scientist-entrepreneur from Baroda, with the help of a government grant, is developing an innovative solution to the mammoth problem of waste management in India.Prasad describes her first product – a dry granulated mixture of 56 c...
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