In our search for a clean and renewable energy source we have developed and commercialized many energy harvesting technologies such as solar, wind, biogas etc. However, harvesting energy from evaporat
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The advances in Biotechnology have had a great impact on the developments in Agricultural Sciences. Identifying genes to improve the colour and fragrance of flowers or enzyme-based ways to produce bio...
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If you are of the opinion that plants are the only creatures which have the unique ability to convert carbon dioxide into sugar while giving out oxygen as a by-product you are wrong. Some organisms ar...
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Biofuels are fuels which are produced from organic matter by biological processes rather than geological processes. They are desired due to their properties of being renewable and a cleaner alternativ
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In present times, when there are several pathogenic microbes dispersed across various environments, food quality is a major concern. We often find that aseptic packaging methods such as tetra packs an
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Gluten is a general name for the proteins found in wheat, rye, barley and triticale. These proteins are important since many people cannot tolerate these in their diet and may show various reactions t
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On 26th of January 2017, a bunch of scientists from the gene expression laboratory at the Salk Institute, California published a paper in the highly reputed journal 'Cell' which took the scientific co...
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MIT Technology Review, a magazine belonging to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published an article titled 'First Human Embryos Edited in US' on 26th of July 2017. The subtitle said 'Researc
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Melanocytes insert granules of melanin into specialized cellular vesicles called melanosomes which are then transferred into the keratinocyte cells of the human epidermis. Melanin production often res...
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Organs-on-a-chip (OOC) is a 3-D microfluidic cell culture chip which mimics or replicates the physiological response of actual organs or organ systems of the human body. Some organs that have been...
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