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New technology assures longer shelf life, season of mangoes

New technology assures longer shelf life, season of mangoes

Biophlox Admin 24/03/2018 0
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...
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Lab made hormone may reveal secret  lives of plants

Lab made hormone may reveal secret lives of plants

Biophlox Admin 19/03/2018 0
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...
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New Smartphone Sensor Checks Your Blood Pressure

New Smartphone Sensor Checks Your Blood Pressure

Biophlox Admin 13/03/2018 1
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...
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Moving Blood Tests from the Lab to the Consumer

Moving Blood Tests from the Lab to the Consumer

Biophlox Admin 21/01/2018 0
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...
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Waste To Wealth, The Biggest Transformation

Waste To Wealth, The Biggest Transformation

Neelansh Bhartiya 18/01/2017 0
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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Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions

Gene Editing Tool CRISPR Is Making Scientists Face The Hard Questions

Biophlox Admin 10/03/2016 0
The CRISPR-Cas9 tool makes genetic engineering cheap and easy, making it a powerful tool that has the potential to be abused. Video provided by NewsyT...
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