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Education and employment in India
The next tests will be how much funding the government allocates to education as a percentage of GDP and whom it appoints to lead higher educational institutions Binay Panda Published 02.10.26, 07:49 AM Representational image. Sourced by the Telegraph The ‘cockroach movement’ took the nation by storm.
Courses that don’t matter, graduates whom no one wants
India at Independence envisioned a vital role for higher educational institutions (HEIs), especially in science & tech. HEIs were to impart practical skills, create knowledge, and build character. Eight decades on, we need a balance between education (knowledge) and training (skills) in the HEI ecosystem. Training in practical skills secures employment. Academic knowledge alone may be insufficient for several tasks. Read full story at TOI+ Facebook Twitter Linkedin END OF ARTICLE
Courses That Don’t Matter, Graduates Whom No One Wants
Courses That Don’t Matter, Graduates Whom No One Wants Almost 20mn college-goers study subjects irrelevant to their future, delinked from what employers demand. They should be taught useful trades in training institutes
What the Fall of 23andMe Means for Personalised Genetic Testing Companies
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With GenomeIndia, population-scale genomics comes of age in India
In one way or another, all living people on the earth can trace their ancestry to Africa and therefore carry some portion of African ancestral DNA — some to a significant degree, others less so. If we all originated from the same African ancestors, why do we look so different? Imagine two grains of paddy, one red and one blue. You plant them in two isolated locations, and each grows into a healthy rice plant, producing bags of red and blue rice, respectively.
India's Pharma Industry Is Not Immune To The Spread Of AI
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Can Indian Pharma Withstand the AI Storm?
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DTE Coverage: Budget 2024-2025
1. Budget 2024-25 should motivate corporates to invest in public health In the healthcare sector, CSR supports local healthcare providers, stimulates economic growth and creates job opportunities. Providing tax incentives to CSRs, highlighting priority areas and promoting public-private partnerships are crucial Click here to read more 2.
Budget 2024-25: Operationalisation of ANRF may be too little, too late
On July 23, 2024, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, during her Union Budget speech for the fiscal year 2024-25, announced that the Centre will finally operationalise the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), five years after its initial announcement. The foundation, established under the ANRF Act, 2023, was designed to fund, coordinate and promote research. “We will operationalise the ANRF for basic research and prototype development,” the minister said in her budget speech.
The ANRF plan has got off on the wrong foot
In 2023, both Houses of Parliament passed the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) Bill, marking a historic start to an initiative to seed, grow, and facilitate research in India, especially in India’s universities and colleges. The 2019 National Research Foundation (NRF) project report explicitly mentioned that “growing outstanding research cells already existing at State Universities” is one of the ANRF’s top priority.
The use of AI in drug development | Explained
Drug development is an expensive and time-consuming process. However, the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has opened up a world of possibilities with respect to fast-tracking drug development. How does the process start? The process of developing a drug starts with identifying and validating a target. A target is a biological molecule (usually a gene or a protein) to which a drug directly binds in order to work. The overwhelming majority of targets are proteins.
Can the newly discovered organelle help engineer plants to fix nitrogen?
As proposed by Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century, natural selection, the engine that drives evolution, is how species adapt to their environments. Unlike the Neo-Darwinist consensus, the American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis did not believe that random genetic mutations were the sole cause of inherited variation. She came up with a new theory called symbiogenesis.
Scientists and a wish list for the incoming government
With 970 million Indians in the process of exercising their franchise in the ongoing general election, what do scientists look for in the polls? Who do they want to vote for, and what are the fundamental issues they want to see their elected representatives resolve and implement? There are five fundamental issues that scientists want the new government to solve and their elected representatives to pay urgent attention to.
Fruit-In-Sight: a deep learning-based framework for secondary metabolite class prediction using fruit and leaf images
Abstract Fruits produce a wide variety of secondary metabolites of great economic value. Analytical measurement of secondary metabolites is tedious, time-consuming and expensive. Additionally, metabolite concentration varies greatly from tree to tree, making it difficult to choose trees for fruit collection. The current study tested whether deep learning-based models can be developed using fruit and leaf images alone to predict a metabolite's concentration class (high or low).
Explained | What is the National Research Foundation?
The story so far: The Union Cabinet has approved the introduction of the National Research Foundation (NRF) Bill in Parliament, placing once again the debate on science and technology funding in the spotlight. What is the NRF? Setting up the NRF was one of the key recommendations of the National Education Policy 2020. The NRF intends to act as a coordinating agency between researchers, various government bodies and industry, thus bringing industry into the mainstream of research.
Building flexible and robust analysis frameworks for molecular subtyping of cancers
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Explained | Understanding a human pangenome map
The story so far: A new study published in the May 10 issue of the Nature journal describes a pangenome reference map, built using genomes from 47 anonymous individuals (19 men and 28 women), mainly from Africa but also from the Caribbean, Americas, East Asia, and Europe. What is a genome? The genome is the blueprint of life, a collection of all the genes and the regions between the genes contained in our 23 pairs of chromosomes. Each chromosome is a contiguous stretch of DNA string.
Building flexible and robust analysis frameworks for molecular subtyping of cancers
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Building flexible and robust analysis frameworks for molecular subtyping of cancers
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The coming 75 years
As India celebrates 75 years of Independence, it is apt to imagine what the next 75 years will look like. Can our nation, obsessed with politics, Bollywood, and cricket, aspire to make the next 75 years an enviable era with a higher standard of living for every citizen? Yes, India can, and will, provided there is a shift in focus to science and technology. But how will India make this happen, given that it spends a meagre 0.7% of its GDP on research and development (R&D)?
Explained| AlphaFold: A tour de force in science
How have our methods of predicting protein structures changed with AI-based tools? What does this development signify for structural biology? How have our methods of predicting protein structures changed with AI-based tools? What does this development signify for structural biology? The story so far: DeepMind, a company based in London and owned by Google, announced this week that it had predicted the three-dimensional structures of more than 200 million proteins using AlphaFold.
Photosystem genes in chloroplast and their interacting partners: A case for molecular adaptation to carnivory in Nepenthaceae.
New Results doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.24.493228 Abstract Molecular adaptations are prevalent in carnivorous plants in response to habitat and environmental stress. We used the chloroplast genome and characterized the specific adaptations in the photosystem genes and their interacting partners in Nepenthes khasiana, a carnivorous pitcher plant.
Establishing India’s Apple
For India to be a research and development-driven economy, universities play an indispensable role For India to be a research and development-driven economy, universities play an indispensable role This month, the U.S. tech company Apple reached the $3 trillion-mark in market capitalisation. This made it wealthier than most countries. The question is: can or will India be able to produce a company like Apple?
Science and technology is central to strong and lasting Indo-US ties
Home Latest Most Read Exclusive My Reads Saved India Cities Cricket Entertainment Editorials Web Stories TOKYO OLYMPICS 2020 Videos Trending Cricket Coronavirus Lifestyle World News Education Home / Opinion / Science and technology is central to strong and lasting Indo-US ties The bipartisan support in the US Congress, the influential India-American community, and the role of US business leaders who see India as the next big production centre and market are other factors that played a role.
Can India leverage data to conquer cancer?
A recent announcement by the Joe Biden administration to boost science funding has been widely noticed, including in India. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest biomedical funder globally, is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the announcement with a planned budget of a whopping $51 billion that dwarfs the scale of any biomedical science-related funding elsewhere.
Our COVID-19 connection with primitive cavemen
Some genes inherited from Neanderthals help defy the virus, others carry a risk of getting critically ill Hosting a virus: Understanding the host genome is paramount to studying both susceptibility and protection against the virus in a given population. | Photo Credit: Gilnature Some genes inherited from Neanderthals help defy the virus, others carry a risk of getting critically ill Viruses can only survive and multiply in host cells.
Gene editing, the good first and then the worries
With the Chemistry Nobel thrusting CRISPR-Cas9 into the limelight, India needs guidelines for gene-editing research The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2020 which was announced on October 7, Wednesday, has two women scientists as its recipients. That, in it, is a first in the sciences. Emmanuelle Charpentier, a French microbiologist working at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, Germany, and Jennifer A.
Testing for COVID-19 in India
Real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-based tests are recommended as diagnostic tests for COVID-19. The test detects the presence of viral RNA in human samples. PCR is a process where a few copies of DNA are amplified to produce millions of copies. In addition to human samples, the test needs primers, probes, enzymes, nucleotides, enzyme cofactors, and buffer solution.
Different peas in different pods
India is among the first countries to set up a specialised agency for the development of research and human resources in the biotechnology sector. More than three decades later, it is imperative to ask: has the biotechnology sector lived up to its promise? Or was it all faux optimism? More importantly, is the sector poised to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with, if not beat, the IT sector in creating jobs for the future?
How safe is CRISPR?
The clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats, or CRISPR/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) (CRISPR-Cas9) system has revolutionised genetic manipulations and made gene editing simpler, faster and easily accessible to most laboratories. The technique has gained considerable traction recently to repair defective genes for potential therapeutic applications.
CAFE MOCHA: An Integrated Platform for Discovering Clinically Relevant Molecular Changes in Cancer-An Example of Distant Metastasis- and Recurrence-Linked Classifiers in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma | JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
With large amounts of multidimensional molecular data on cancers generated and deposited into public repositories such as The Cancer Genome Atlas and International Cancer Genome Consortium, a cancer type agnostic and integrative platform will help to identify signatures with clinical relevance. We devised such a platform and showcase it by identifying a molecular signature for patients with metastatic and recurrent (MR) head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
Questions around raising the dead
There’s a chilling scene in the 2016 Disney masterpiece, “The Jungle Book”, where King Louie, a Gigantopithecus, extends his hand to catch Mowgli before he escapes and the whole temple crumbles in on the ape. Gigantopithecus, literally the “giant ape”, once roamed the plains of Asia, including India, and went extinct due to a lack of food and its giant size. Not much is known about it except that its closest living relatives are orangutans. Can science bring back Gigantopithecus to life?
The news and the noise about gene editing
CRISPR, the gene-editing technology and acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, and CRISPR-associated protein9 (Cas9) have created much enthusiasm among the scientific community lately. Although not the first tool in the field of gene editing, higher specificity, ease of use and the requirement of inexpensive reagents to selectively modify gene(s) of interest have made the system a potential game changer for research in genome engineering.
Playing god - The Hindu
Back in 1944, physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s masterpiece, What Is Life?, provided the world with a cue about the basic tenets of life. In subsequent decades, discoveries advanced our knowledge on the complexities of life, on how cells function and propagate. From single cell bacteria to complex multi-cellular organisms like humans, cells remain at the heart of all functions.
Human Genome Project: The ‘Write’ track
The potential benefits of HGP-write to India include providing new solutions to diseases like malaria, dengue and chikungunya. The Human Genome Project (HGP) was a large, international and multi-institutional effort that took 13 years [1990-2003] and $2.7 billion to produce a blueprint of the sequence of genes and spaces between genes that make up a typical human genome.
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