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Houston An Indian-American professor has been honoured with the 2009 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas for his research that could lead to the creation of artificial proteins in the human body.

Life

By having exploited the earth

Amoeba-Like Organism Engulfed A Bacterium That Developed Power To Use Sunlight And Liberate Oxygen
Jonathan Leake

Scientists have identified the single chance encounter about 1.9billion years ago to which almost all life on earth owes its existence.
It saw an amoeba-like organism engulf a bacterium that had developed the power to use sunlight to break down water and liberate oxygen.

PATENTLY ABSURD
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi September 17, 2008, 3:35 IST

There was groundbreaking news from Japan five days ago. Scientists from Kyoto University were awarded a patent for their discovery on how to produce stem cells from skin, the first stem cell patent granted in Japan. The special technology developed by the Kyoto University team, led by the renowned Shinya Yamanaka, creates what is termed induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, versatile cells that have the potential to develop into any kind of cells, including human organ and tissue cells.

Syed Akbar

IN A major ecological exercise a team of scientists at the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, has successfully produced seahorses in captivity. The success of NIO

Click here to Enlarge View Study redraws evolutionary relationship between birds most birds of prey

Finally, scientists grow blood in lab. Blood donations could one day be a thing of the past

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