By Subhro Mallik As the life sciences industry braces itself for the rising challenges of keeping up patient and employee engagement, there is an overriding need for resilience. Considering the major shocks and stresses felt by the industry in recent years, life sciences organizations must learn to repair, recuperate, and spring back faster and better … Read more
Pune: Two products that would handle large genomics data and biomolecular structural data securely have been developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) on Monday. Both were launched by the bioinformatics group during a three-day symposium in Accelerating Biology 2023: Discovery to Delivery. Rajendra Joshi, senior director and head of the department … Read more
President of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) Umesh V. Waghmare on Friday threw light on the usage of fundamental laws of physics in identifying instabilities in crystals. Delivering presidential address on “Instabilities of crystals and their functional properties” at the inaugural session of the 88th annual meeting of the IAS at SRM University-AP, Prof. … Read more
New Delhi: Accenture’s Life Sciences Technology Vision 2022 report explores the technology trends that will transform how biopharmaceutical and medical technology companies solve manufacturing and device problems, improve equity in clinical trial participation and build more resilient supply chains to provide patients and healthcare professionals with more personalised experiences. According to the report, life sciences … Read more
by Dr. Jennifer Prabhu The current Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission by the PM to allow greater IT-penetration of healthcare is welcome news. What makes it doubly so, is the focus on digital health such as app-based solutions. This is because leveraging digital technology towards disease management and cure is very cost-effective. The Focus of this … Read more
SYDNEY—Researchers are deploying heat-seeking drones and studying the chemistry of leaves to determine how creatures like the koala can survive in a burned landscape, a new effort to understand the effects of devastating wildfires across the globe. About 73,000 square miles were burned in Australia’s most recent fire season, an area bigger than Washington state, … Read more
MOSCOW—In April, as Covid-19 cases surged across Russia, President Vladimir Putin called a meeting of the country’s top scientists and health officials over video link to deliver an urgent directive: Do whatever you need to create a national vaccine as soon as possible. Four weeks later, Alexander Gintsburg, director of the state-run Gamaleya Institute for … Read more
HONG KONG—A team of researchers have documented a case of Covid-19 reinfection, offering evidence that patients who have recovered from the viral disease could be infected a second time, months after the initial episode. In a paper accepted on Monday by the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal, scientists from the University of Hong Kong reported the … Read more
MEXICO CITY—Millions of dollars obtained from foreign bribes during a presidential campaign. Bags of cash to lawmakers in exchange for approving a historic opening of Mexico’s oil industry. A former sitting president making deals with his favorite contractor to share the spoils of big government contracts. Those allegations by Emilio Lozoya, a disgraced former chief … Read more
The mainly Italian tourists visiting the ruins of Italy’s ancient city of Pompeii are getting a rare chance to see the site without the usual crowds—and admire spectacular finds unearthed during a six-year conservation project that is just now drawing to a close. In a corner of the city that was frozen in time by … Read more