A floating trash barrier (FTB), developed by a Bengaluru firm and deployed in eight cities across India to trap trash in waterbodies, has won the Cleaning and Restoring India’s Water Bodies Challenge conducted by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA). The challenge was conducted by the Waste to Wealth Mission — Swachh Bharat … Read more
May 9, 2022 — Scientists are working on COVID vaccines delivered through nasal sprays that could stop the coronavirus from invading the body at its most common entry point, the mucous membrane of the nose and throat. More than a dozen clinical trials with nasal sprays are under way, The Guardian reported. USA Today said … Read more
About 30% of COVID-19 patients developed the condition known as long COVID, UCLA researchers said in a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. The UCLA researchers studied 1,038 people enrolled in the UCLA COVID Ambulatory Program between April 2020 and February 2021. Researchers found that 309 of them developed long COVID. A … Read more
New Delhi: The technology innovation hubs of IIT Delhi (iHub foundation) and IIIT Delhi (iHub Anubhuti) will collaborate to develop India’s first Medical Cobotics Centre (MCC) at IIIT-Delhi. The hubs, funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), will develop training programs in consultation with leading doctors and healthcare experts. The planned Medical Cobotics … Read more
A bot developed by two students of the Indian Institute of Information Technology in Delhi, sends alerts to users about open slots on the CoWin app, thus improving the chances of successfully booking a slot. Launched on May 4, the bot has garnered 60,000 users since. Developed by Rohan Rajpal and Paras Mehan, ‘CoWin Alerts’ … Read more
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The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has developed an ‘antisera’ for treatment of coronavirus and has been approved by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) for clinical trials. The antisera has been developed by injecting the SARS-CoV-2 in animals. The antisera developed by ICMR and Hyderabad-based biopharmaceutical firm Biological E Ltd is an … Read more
Nearly one-third of Covid-19 patients in a US hospital system experienced some kind of altered mental function, a study published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology has found. These altered mental functions included confusion, delirium and unresponsiveness, the study noted. The research explored the neurologic manifestations of Covid-19 and found some were present in … Read more
NEW DELHI: In order to control spread of infection through baggage at airports and railway stations, scientists at Hyderabad-based R&D centre of science & technology ministry in collaboration with a Noida-based company have developed baggage disinfection system which can efficiently disinfect 360-degree surface of any baggage within eight seconds. The system, known as KritiScan UV … Read more