ShanMukha Innovations, a start-up incubated by the Society for Innovation and Development at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has developed SickleCert, India’s first indigenous diagnostic kit for Sickle-Cell Anemia. “The technology we have developed provides an affordable and efficient solution to screen large populations as a point of care test. With a tiny amount … Read more
New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has announced partnership with Ambrane India for mass manufacturing of “haptic smartwatch for the blind and visually impaired“. The haptic smartwatch comes in two variants and has 12 touch-sensitive hour markers arranged over the dial face. Users will be required to scan the markers with their … Read more
New Delhi: Employers can now utilise the TAWS-16 tool, developed by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences (Nimhans), to gauge employee work-related stress. TAWS-16 is the first instrument in India to solely assess work-related stress, despite the fact that several businesses are already evaluating their employees’ stress levels in a variety of … Read more
The National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) which had developed an airboat Jaldost MkI has now come up with an upgraded version of the airboat. The airboat which uses air propulsion and thrust vectoring technology to travel in shallow and flood waters is capable of weed cutting and scooping the floating waste products. According to NAL, the … Read more
A Malaysian Airlines flight 370 flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing carrying 227 passengers lost contact with the Air Traffic Control (ATC), deviated from its planned flight path and crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean in March 2014. An expensive multinational search for the missing aircraft lasted for three years due to the vast … Read more
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has developed an Information Technology tool to monitor and improve the health of rural Scheduled Caste (SC) communities in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. The IT Tool, developed using open-source software, was deployed to gather detailed household-level annual health-related information. This IT Tool was also utilized … Read more
Roorkee: A team of researchers at IIT-Roorkee have developed an easy-to-use breath-based cancer detector (BLO). Used for early detection of cancer, it will work on the principles of colorimetry. This device will be able to detect the presence of breast, lung and oral cancer, according to the researchers. The researchers — Indranil Lahiri, Partha Roy … Read more
However, Prof Alfonso Martinez Arias, from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, said: “This is an advance but at a very early stage of development, a rare event which, while superficially looking like an embryo, bears defects which should not be overlooked.” Source link
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati have developed an ultrasound-assisted fermentation method to produce a safe sugar substitute called “Xylitol” from bagasse, the residue left after crushing of sugarcane. According to officials, the new method overcomes operational limitations of chemical methods of synthesis and time delays associated with conventional fermentation. The research … Read more
Jodhpur, A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur and Western Michigan University, US, has identified significant neonatal and infant mortality predictors using multiple machine learning (ML) techniques. The study uses nationwide household survey data from India. The primary objective of this research was to identify early warning signs of child mortality … Read more