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Cord Blood transplant outperforms bone marrow transplant states a new study by ASH

Published in the journal – Blood Advances – the studies aim to study the efficacy of cord blood in treatment of diverse disorders Studies’ outcome crucial for multi-ethnic country like India, where the chances of finding a matching donor are very low. New Delhi: American Society of Hematology (ASH), the world's largest professional society working to conquer blood diseases has recently released two key studies on cord blood transplants, as part of its Blood Advances journal. Led by a team of leading researchers from University of Colorado and University of Pittsburgh, the two studies have brought to foray the various…
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A women-led startup develops deep-tech for reliable low-cost internet services to rural areas

New Delhi : Astrome, a women-led startup, has developed an innovative wireless product that gives fibre like bandwidth at fraction of cost of fibre to help telecom operators deliver reliable low-cost internet services to suburban and rural areas. Reaching internet access to remote places in countries like India is difficult because laying fibre is too expensive. There is a need for wireless backhaul products that can deliver low cost, high data capacity, and wide reach. Currently available, wireless backhaul products either do not provide sufficient data speeds or the required range or are very expensive to deploy. The wireless product called Giga…
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SBI Foundation to help deploy two indigenous innovations for COVID care

New Delhi: Bengaluru-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) has inked a pact with SBI Foundation for CSR (corporate social responsibility) support towards boosting existing public healthcare efforts in light of a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic. Through this joint effort, they will bring two new, potentially life-saving technologies in assisted respiratory devices and contactless remote vitals monitoring categories for deployment across the country. The innovations developed by two of India’s medtech startups, Coeo Labs and Turtle Shell Technologies will be deployed in several cities worst affected by the pandemic. Dr Taslim arif Saiyed, C-CAMP CEO and Director said, “The C-CAMP-SBI…
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No guts no glory, No hustle No story: Mr. Chandresh Pandey, as A Filmmaker/Producer

Mumbai, Maharashtra: Growing up Mr. Chandresh Pandey had an immense amount of love in films, every film he saw led him to dream about the day where he could have his own production house.    Having an utmost inclination and fascination towards films and arts, he swayed in. Growing up he knew this is something that he was more attracted to, with unsupportive people and supportive close ones he took a step further and surely he hasn't regretted it even a bit. Art and films never go unseen, everyone has a different fondness towards it, but only some people have the…
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Papa Rap Singer is back with Pagla Wala Dance this Holi

New Delhi: Saemy's Papa Rap Song became the national anthem of backbenchers overnight and was an instant hit on social media platforms last year. Now, Kolkata based Rapper, Saemy is all set to make your Holi bang on with his new track, Pagla Wala Dance. The song has already released on the official youtube channel of Koinage Records, on 27th March 2021. The crazy lyrics and fun vibe of the song have already garnered lots of love on the popular social media platforms like Instagram, and Youtube. Directed by Arzad Naaz, and the Pagla Wala Dance features India's Got Talent,…
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Holi Remedies with Ace Astro-Numerologist Sidhharrth S Kumaar

Gurugram, Haryana [India]: Holi is a traditional Hindu festival celebrating at the beginning of spring and lasts for two days. It is the celebration of prosperity, love, and colours and the triumph of good over evil. Holi is relatively secular among Hindu celebrations. It has various methodologies behind it. First and important is the burning of the devil Holika and has a story of Krishna and Radha. Krishna loved Radha, but he has some disturbances about the difference in their skin colours. Then he went and painted Radha's face, so it was the same colour as his. That is why…
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Study finds need for producing region-wise antivenom for snakebite

New Delhi: Around 58,000 die of snakebite every year in the country. A majority of snakebites that lead to death or disability are attributed to the ‘big four’ of Indian snakes – Russell’s viper, which is one of the deadliest snake species in the world; spectacled cobra; common krait; and saw-scaled viper. Commercial antivenom treatment for snakebite does not always prove effective. However, only a few efforts have been made to understand the reason for this. In a new study geared in this direction, researchers at Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc)’s Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES) and collaborators have…
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Reel Heroes wear Capes, Real Heroes Wear Stethoscopes

Mumbai, Maharashtra : With all the numerous toiling, Mr. Chandresh is an aspiring doctor first and everything else is in the second category for him, as practicing in this field is his priority. It took him a lot of time to come to this extent so that he could bring a change. He always wanted to do something more powerful and this field gives him the right amount of power to do so. There's a lot going on in the medical industry right now. He is also studying hard in the technological part of this field, to bring different techniques…
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Researchers devise digital method to process Sanskrit texts

New Delhi: While various digital resources have improved the accessibility and use of world languages and even regional languages, Sanskrit presents unique challenges in automated computational processing. In addition to the sheer volume and diversity, both stylistic and chronological, found in these texts, the linguistic peculiarities expressed by the language, pose several challenges in making these works accessible to the world. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur are making Sanskrit accessible with their Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system for processing Sanskrit texts.  Researchers led by Dr Pawan Goyal have developed a digital infrastructure for the efficient processing of…
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New tool to fight antimicrobial resistance

New Delhi: A team of researchers at the Department of Biotechnology’s Hyderabad-based National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (DBT-NIAB) has developed a new technique to detect the presence of an antibiotic called Oxytetracycline (OTC) in milk samples. Oxytetracycline is known for its broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity and is one of the extensively used antibiotics in veterinary practices. Its excessive consumption can cause antimicrobial resistance. The new tool can help in several other ways also since consumption of milk having residual antibiotics can cause serious health complications like development of hepatotoxicity, teratogenicity, reduced growth and metabolism too. At present, the kits used for…
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