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  DST INSPIRE faculty from Chennai working on alternative anti-cancer therapy using transgenic zebrafish Scientists are exploring an alternative anti-cancer therapy that involves targeting tumor generated the formation of new blood vessels which allow the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the body's tissues, technically called angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is critical in the growth of cancer because tumors need blood supply to grow. Tumors trigger the growth of blood cells by giving off chemical signals that stimulate angiogenesis. Deregulation of angiogenesis is the main reason for tumor growth and progression. Inhibition of tumor angiogenesis has become a popular anti-cancer strategy after chemotherapy. However, the clinically approved anti-angiogenic drugs are ineffective due to parallel activation of various compensatory mechanisms involving a cascade of molecules, which aids tumor angiogenesis and investigation of these mechanisms are essential for developing anti-angiogenic th...

  Scientists develop gold microstructure substrate with tunable wettability useful in water transportation & self-cleaning Scientists have developed a gold microstructure substrate with the ability to repel water as well as bubbles with tunable wettability, which can be used in designing microfluidic devices, biosensors and useful in water transportation and self-cleaning. Wettability, or the  ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface , is an important property in surface and interface science. Its influence is seen in many biochemical processes, sensing, microfluidics, water transportation, self-cleaning, industrial processes. The tunable wettability results from tunability in surface energy of the substrate, which can be utilized to regulate the direction of flow in water transportation and self-cleaning applications. According to the recent work published in ‘ Journal of Applied Physics’ , Dr. P. Viswanath and his group from the  Centre for Nano ...

                                                                        POLIO Polio is highly infectious viral disease and it affect the children under the age of five. There is no cure for polio but it can be only prevented by immunization. There are 3 type of strain for wild polio virus  1- TYPE - I  2- TYPE - II 3- TYPE - III Type II has been eradicated in 1999 and Type III no case found since 2012.   Now Type II and Type III has been certified as globally eradicated.  Now remain Type I strain of virus is affecting only two Country. 1- Afganistan 2- Pakistan

 VANADIUM was discovered in 1801. It is basically a transition metal that resist corrosion.    It means the VANADIUM saves the metal from corrosion.   VANADIUM  is a chemical element with the symbol V and atomic number 23.             It is a hard, silvery-grey, malleable transition metal.  VANADIUM primarily used as a  steel additive for strengthening steel and titanium.  VANADIUM is essential for some species as well including human also human need little bit of vanadium , every day human being consume 0.1 milligram of vanadium.

                                               South Asian River Dolphin 1. It is endangered freshwater or river Dolphin found in the region of Indian Subcontinent, which is spilt into two subspecies- Gangetic River Dolphin - It is primarily found in the ganga and Brahmaputra  River and their tributaries in INDIA, BANGLADESH, and NEPAL. Indus River Dolphin - It is now found only in the main channel of the Indus River in PAKISTAN and in the River Beas in PUNJAB in INDIA. 2. The Gangetic River Dolphin has been recognized by the Govt. of INDIA as its NATIONAL AQUATIC ANIMAL. It is also the official animal of the Guwahati. 3. A stretch of ganga River in Bihar has been declared a Dolphin sanctuary and named VIKRAMSHILA GANGETIC DOLPHIN SANCTUARY, the first such protected area. 4. It is protected under Schedule I of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. 5. It is also protected...

                                                                                         R- Naught Value a Calculating Factor 'R0 value, is a mathematical value. By which we can calculate the spreading of infectious disease.  It is also known as (R- naught value). R- naught value is the basic reproductive number of   any micro infectious disease. R- naught value is using the calculating of average new person who is infected first time by the virus or bacteria through infected person. R-naught value is calculating only for new infected person who had no vaccination before. BASE FOR CALCULATING R- NAUGHT VALUE    1. Infectious Period 2. Contact Rate 3. Mode of Transmission On the basis of  R- naught value we can calculate the Number of H...