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The next big advance in cancer treatment could be a vaccine
Drugmakers Moderna and Merck are jointly developing a personalized...
Air conditioning in India poses risk of dramatic rise in emissions: Study
''With electricity production still based essentially on fossil...
Omicron sublineage BA.2 remains a variant of concern
Although BA.2 sequences are increasing in proportion relative to other Omicron sublineages, there is still a reported decline in overall cases globally The BA.2 virus, a sublineage of the Omicron COVID-19 mutation, should continue to be considered a variant of...
France bans import of meat from animals on growth antibiotics
By giving antibiotics when the animals are not sick, the bacteria get used to the remedy and gradually develop resistance, making antibiotics less effective when really needed, the ministry said France adopted a decree on Tuesday banning imports of meat from animals...
India to have 1 billion smartphone users by 2026: Deloitte
''Higher internet adoption is expected to fuel demand for smartphones; this increased demand will be propelled by the need to adopt fintech, e-health, and e-learning,'' it said. New Delhi: India will have 1 billion smartphone users by 2026 with rural areas driving the...
New study finds better treatment for Parkinson’s disease
In Parkinson's disease, nerve cells that produce dopamine progressively die. Since the 1960s, doctors have relied on medication to replace the missing dopamine, but it is notoriously difficult to fully control symptoms as the disease progresses Parkinson's disease is...
China’s answer to rising sea levels, food insecurity: ‘seawater rice’
Climate change has made the task more urgent. China’s coastal waters have risen faster than the global average over the last 40 years, a worrying trend given the country’s deep reliance on its long and low eastern coast for grain production. Successfully growing...
IIT-Madras researchers propose drought, flood mitigation project for village in TN
It suggested implementing a rapid recharge technology, which, when developed, can bring several benefits, including mitigate floods and droughts, and create a subsurface dam for water storage without evaporation loss, distribute water automatically and equitably...
Global artificial intelligence spending to reach $434 bn in 2022: Report
AI solutions are currently focused on business process problems and range from human augmentation to process improvement to planning and forecasting, empowering superior decisioning and outcomes "Advancements in language, voice and vision technologies, and multi-modal...
IndiGo takes delivery of first Airbus plane operating on sustainable fuel
In a statement, Ronojoy Dutta, Chief Executive Officer, IndiGo said, We are pleased to take delivery of this Airbus aircraft which will run on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), as part of our journey towards sustainable aviation" IndiGo had in July 2021 said it aims to...
India needs to focus on care infra for kids and seniors: Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi, former chief executive, Pepsi Nooyi said families are “fragile” systems and if something happens to anyone in it, there will be economic trouble because sufficient money is not set aside and in such a scenario, the obvious impact will be delayed child...
Omicron subvariant BA.2 may cause severe disease, lab study suggests
"Neutralisation experiments show that the vaccine-induced humoral immunity fails to function against BA.2 like BA.1," the authors of the study said The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant is not only faster at spreading, but may also cause more severe...