Jyoti Singh

India has revised its land restoration target to 26 million hectares from previously set target of 21 million hectares in the recently held United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). But there is long way to go and some…
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On the basis of mathematical modelling it is understood that India is expecting a temperature change of 2° C by the end of year 2100, said Dr Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences. He was delivering a lecture under…
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There have been worldwide attempts to produce fuel from renewable biological resources in order to overcome future oil shortages in the world. But conversion of food resources to fuel affects the global supply-demand of food, especially in…
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According to World Health Organisation (WHO) testing is the key to combat novel coronavirus. With large population testing in large number is prohibitive in Indian conditions. Keeping this in mind a low-cost COVID-19 test kit developed by…
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The Drug Discovery Hackathon (DDH), 2020 training programme kick-started with lectures on different topics. It is an online platform to take open source drug discovery to a higher pedestal in the crusade against the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr…
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Indian institute of Technology (IIT) Madras researchers have shown that the active principle from turmeric, that is curcumin, can enhance cancer cell death caused by a protein called ‘TRAIL’. They performed studies using isolated leukaemia…
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Nearly all countries in the world have speed up their research efforts on novel coronavirus. In this context disease research and patient data analysis are key elements. To work on these important aspects Institute of Genomics and…
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The novel coronavirus pandemic has raised the demand of ventilators across the country. To meet the escalating demand researchers from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) has developed an Emergency…
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras researchers developed an analysis-driven ‘hyperelastic’ model in calculating the stress and strain experienced by the brain due to blunt force injury and lesion (tumour) growth. The new model will…
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To keep the science learning going National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) organised online competitions for students, teachers and general public on the theme ‘Me and My Environment: A Lockdown Experience’. More than…
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