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News Section..... t"OFXTQFDJFTPGBHSPVOEEXFMMJOHMJ[BSE t Researchers at the Eli and Edythe has been discovered in Goregaon’s Aarey Broad Center of Regenerative Colony and !ane’s Badlapur forested Medicine and Stem Cell Research at belts. !e species, Cyrtodactylus Varadgirii UCLA have succeeded in creating or Giri’s Geckoella, has been named a"er three-dimensional lung “organoids” a Bengaluru-based scientist Varad Giri. It by coating tiny gel beads with lung- was discovered 130 years a"er the last such Cyrtodactylus Varadgirii derived stem cells and then allowing gecko was discovered. them to self-assemble into the shapes Cyrtodactylus Varadgirii of the air sacs found in human lungs, !e laboratory-grown lung- t " UFBN PG SFTFBSDIFST MFE CZ 1SPGFTTPS 4BUIFFT 3BHIBWBO GSPN like tissue can be used to study diseases including idiopathic the Department of Biochemistry, IISc, Bengaluru for the #rst pulmonary #brosis. Idiopathic pulmonary #brosis is a chronic lung time found that endosulfan, an organochlorine pesticide, causes disease characterized by scarring of the lungs. !e scarring makes DNA damages in animals. Endosulfan breaks in DNA strands and the lungs thick and sti$, which over time results in progressively disturbs the damage response mechanism found in cells, which worsening shortness of breath and lack of oxygen to the brain and leads to compromised DNA strand repair. vital organs. t A team of Indian researchers led by Professor Anirban Banerjee from the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay, t " UFBN PG SFTFBSDIFST GSPN UIF United States and Madagascar and Dr. Deepak Modi from Mumbai’s National Institute for Research has described a new, possibly in Reproductive Health unlocked the mechanisms by which preterm microendemic, species of the snake births occur. Preterm births signify the period between 28 and 32 weeks genus Madagascarophis from the of gestation. !ey found that gram-positive Group B Streptococcus tsingy karst massif of Ankarana (GBS) bacteria produce small balloons called membrane vesicles. !ese National Park, the Malagasy Province vesicles contain toxins that destroy foetal and maternal cells. !ey of Antsiranana, and named it ‘ghost also kill the collagen that keeps the cells together. !e GBS bacteria snake’ for its pale grey coloration and Madagascarophis lolo are normally found in human vagina. !eir numbers can shoot up in elusiveness. some pregnant women. !e GBS bacteria have been associated with premature rupture of amniotic membrane and preterm birth. t"UFBNPGTDJFOUJTUTMFECZ%S$BSMPT t A group of researchers discovered a Perafán from the University of the new species of eel, Gymnothorax indicus , Republic, Uruguay discovered new from the northern Bay of Bengal along spider, scienti#cally named Kankuamo the West Bengal coast. It is likely to be marquezi, in the Colombian mountain called Indian unpatterned moray. !e Gymnothorax indicus range Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. eel was studied by the scientists at Sankarpur #shing harbour in West It has been named a"er the famed Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district. Kankuamo marquezi Colombian novelist and 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez. t Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new spectroscopic method to help the new Mars Rover to quickly and t %ST .JO -JV BOE :VBOKJF 1BOH BMPOH XJUI B UFBN PG HSBEVBUF non-invasively identify rock and soil samples. !e technique is based students and post-doctoral fellows in Faculty of Applied Science & on improved way of interpreting the results of Raman spectroscopy, Engineering, University of Toronto’s have developed a technique a common, non-destructive process used by geologists to identify the powered by renewable energies such as solar or wind. !e catalyst chemical composition of ancient rocks. takes climate-warming carbon-dioxide (CO 2) and converts it to carbon-monoxide (CO), a useful building block for carbon-based t A group of scientists at the University of Bristol developed a new stem cell-containing bio-ink that allows 3D printing of complex living chemical fuels, such as methanol, ethanol and diesel. tissues, known as bio-printing. Bio-ink contains a natural polymer Vasudha Agnihotri ([email protected] ), from seaweed and a sacri#cial synthetic polymer used in the medical Scientist-C industry. Seaweed polymer o$ers structural support when cell nutrients G.B. Pant National Institute are introduced while synthetic polymer changes the bio-ink from a of liquid to a solid as temperature is raised, Special bio-ink formulation Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development was extruded from a retro#tted benchtop 3-D printer as a liquid that Kosi –Katarmal, Almora –263 643, (Uttarakhand) transformed to a gel at 37°C. !e formulation allows construction of complex living 3-D architectures. Photo Credits: t 1IZTJDJTUT XPSLJOH XJUI UIF -BSHF )BESPO $PMMJEFS CFBVUZ http://newsroom.ucla.edu experiment (LHCb) have discovered new forms of matter, known as http://www.careerride.com tetraquarks. !e new particles have been named X(4140), X(4274), http://novataxa.blogspot.in X(4500), and X(4700) a"er their respective masses, and each one has been found to contain a unique combination of two charm http://www.lsu.edu quarks and two strange quarks. !is makes them the #rst four- http://www.sci-news.com quark particles found to be composed entirely of heavy quarks.
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