Sunderarajan Padmanabhan

Transfusion of red blood cells (RBCs) is a life-saving treatment for numerous conditions such as severe anaemia, injury-related trauma, and supportive care in cardiovascular surgery, transplant surgery, pregnancy-related complications,…
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Rice is a mainstay for global food security. About two-thirds of the world’s population is dependent on it as a staple food crop. With the constantly increasing global population, there is a need to increase rice productivity. Scientists…
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Breast-cancer is the most common cancer in women in India. Estimated one in twenty eight women is likely to develop breast cancer during her lifetime. In urban areas, one in twenty two women is likely to develop breast cancer during her…
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Rice is one of the main staple foods across the world as it has high carbohydrate content and provides instant energy. In Southeast Asia, where it is consumed more than in other parts of the world, it accounts for more than 75 per cent…
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Parkinson’s disease is a common neurodegenerative disease that has no cure. It is believed that an aggregation of a protein called alpha synuclein (ASyn) plays a crucial role in the pathology of the disease. The aggregation is found in…
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The roots of plants come in contact with several soil microbes as they grow. Some microbes are good for plants, while several others are not. How do plants derive benefits from the good ones? A team of researchers at the Department…
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A team of researchers at Faridabad-based Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) led by Dr Avinash Bajaj has initiated a study to engineer virucidal coatings to prevent the COVID-19 transmission. The study is being conducted in…
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Union Ministry of Science and Technology’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and its public sector undertaking Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) have called for project proposals under their COVID-19 Research…
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Department of Biotechnology’s public sector undertaking Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) has entered into a partnership with Invest India to seek CSR Funds for its COVID-19 Research Consortium. The consortium…
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Department of Biotechnology’s Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) is holding a workshop to bring frontline workers, especially scientists, clinicians and lab technicians, dealing with the COVID-19 crisis up-to-date on…
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