What is Miyawaki method? The Miyawaki method, developed by a Japanese botanist after whom it is named, involves planting saplings in small areas, causing them to “fight” for resources and…
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Himalayan Brown Bears
A recent study on the Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus) has predicted a significant reduction in suitable habitat and biological corridors of the species in the climate change scenario,…
Project Snow Leopard
International Snow Leopard Day was observed on 23 October. The day came into being with the adoption of the Bishkek Declaration by 12 countries on the conservation of snow leopards.…
Migration of Mangroves:
In 2008, Punarbasu Chaudhuri, mangrove ecologist from the University of Calcutta spotted an interesting mangrove plant at the bank of river Hooghly inside Kolkata city. It was quite unusual, as…
‘Feluda’ Test for Covid
It uses CRISPR-Cas technology for the detection of genes specific to SARS-CoV-2 virus.This has been developed by the CSIR-IGIB and the TATA Group,and approved by the Drug Controller General of…
Gene Editing and CRISPR/Cas9
French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of gene editing likened to “molecular scissors”, known as the…
Hepatitis C
Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis…
National Clean Air Program(NCAP)
A time bound national level strategy for pan India implementation to tackle the increasing air pollution problem across the country in a comprehensive manner in the form of National Clean…
India’s ASTROSAT discovers oldest galaxy
A global team led by scientists of the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) has discovered one of the oldest galaxies in extreme ultraviolet light with the aid…