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Years of research to find cures to chronic diseases have gone waste because of frequent and long power cuts in 24/7 laboratories that need to maintain sub-zero temperatures to preserve samples.

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Pune, September 24 In what could prove to be a path-breaking discovery for the Oil exploration and production business, scientists at Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune have identified environment friendly bacteria that allows extraction of oil at temperatures more than 90 degrees Celsius.

Washington: Aspirin is among the most popular remedies used by people. Turns out some plants like it, too. Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research were surprised to discover that stressed plants produce an aspirin-like chemical that can be detected in the air above the plants. The chemical may be a sort of immune response that helps protect the plants, the scientists said.

on november 9, papers in Punjab ran stories about a study exposing high levels of pesticides in blood samples of people in the state. Pesticides were also on the agenda that day at a symposium at the Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana. But the "experts' gathered at the meet were not there to allay concerns raised by the report.

A specific condition that occurs in the bodies of inactive and overweight individuals may actually encourage the process of cancer development, claim researchers from the Washington dc -based

Marine life is a source for future medicines

Vaccine developed against kala azar

Angry fisherfolk of Galapagos Islands, 965 kilometres off the Ecuadorean mainland, recently lay seige to research stations of the Charles Darwin Foundation, the main promoter of conservation efforts

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