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The Name of Professor Ashok Pandey has come up among the top 1% highly cited global researcher from India and only name from CSIR which is largest research organization in the country. Professor Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at CSIR-Indian Institute for Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India and Honorary Executive Director at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability- India. Formerly, he was Eminent Scientist at the Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing, Mohali and Chief Scientist & Head of Biotechnology Division at CSIR’s National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology at Trivandrum. His major research and technological development interests are…

Introduction India’s oldest scientific gathering Indian Science Congress (ISC) is gaining much attention worldwide these days, not only because breakthrough discoveries are coming out of sessions but also because we have started to take dig the past for more imaginative thinking. Many call it Indian Science and many call it PseudoScience. In this article we will see as much detail as possible to understand Science, Pseudoscience, Non Science, Religious beliefs and current scenarion in Indian perspective in Science.  In this way in future, we can think of a special session in each event which will focus on Sci-fi, so that…

Tech Mahindra Pvt. Ltd. a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business reengineering services and solutions in Life Sciences and allied areas signed MoU with the UoH-BioNEST, a bio-incubator at the University of Hyderabad (UoH). The MoU was signed in presence of the Prof. Podile Appa Rao, Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad, Prof. Gandham Prasad, Director, TIE-U, Prof. Pallu Reddanna, Project investigator, UoH-BioNEST, Mr. Kandimalla Venugopal, Global Head Healthcare and Life Sciences, Tech Mahindra, Dr. Palakodeti, Ratnakar, Head Life sciences and Healthcare, Tech Mahindra, and other dignitaries. “UoH-BioNEST is unique in having located within the School of Life Sciences,…

A total of 27 startups applied for the event, out of which TiE shortlisted 13 startups for the investor pitch. After the final round, BODHA an innovative product startup from Amaravati, incubated in IKP knowledge Park, Karnataka is the clear WINNER. Followed by Hyderabad ventures, GoBhaarati incubated in Nutrihub of IIMR & UrbanKisaan incubated in NAARM A-Idea. TiE-Hyderabad invited 13 startups from 27 applicants, to pitch to investors / entrepreneurs. In the final round 6 startups took part including the winners- BODHA, GoBhaarati, & UrbanKisaan were, CropIQ incubated at SRIX Warangal, Vectrogen Biologicals incubated at BioNest in University of Hyderabad,…

ABSTRACT Plastic is used in large number worldwide and its use has become part of our daily life for different purposes. Degradation of plastic wastes is serious problem which has created adverse effects on humans, animals, plants and environment. There are many processes available for the degradation of plastics, but the most eco-friendly and cheap method is by microbial degradation as the other process has hazardous effect on environment and also be costly. This study deals with the isolation, characterization and identification of plastic degrading bacteria and also study of the degradation of plastic waste by using individual bacterial isolates…

Researchers of the Institute of Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP), a mixed centre of the Valencia Polytechnic University (UPV) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in collaboration with the Centre of Agrigenomic Research (CRAG) of the CSIC, the government of Catalunya, the Authonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona; and the Institute of Food Agrochemistry and Technology (IATA) of the CSIC, have been able to efficiently produce antifungal proteins in plants, based on a modified tobacco mosaic virus. The results of this research, which could have a great impact in the agri-food industry, have been published…

November 27-28, 2018; Lucknow, India was organized by the CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, India in association with The Biotech Research Society, India. The venue was CSIR-IITR. A total of ~ 200 participants attended the conference from all over the world, which included invited speakers from India, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Italy, Hong Kong, South Korea, Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, USA. A total of five plenary talks and 40 invited talks were held in 10 parallel sessions held in two days along with 157 posters. The opening session of the BEHSD-2018 was…

BioSd-2018 inaugural took place on 22nd Nov 2018 at 3:00 pm. The conference convenor Dr S. Venkata Mohan welcomed the guests on to the dais, which included Dr. Shekar C Mande, Director-General, CSIR; Prof T P Singh, INSA Senior Scientist, AIIMS and President, BRSI; Dr. S. Chandrashekhar, Director, CSIR-IICT; Prof. Ashok Pandey, BioSD Chair and Dr N V Satyanarayana, CSIR IICT, Hyderabad. The BRSI’s flagship annual event was conducted in Hyderabad, this year event has gathered arounf 750 participants from all over the world and every corner of India who communicated their research among peers. We are bringing out this…

Shreeji Biotech company has been chosen for startup coverage in this issue because big development were seen in short span which Shreeji Biotech made. Following multidimensional approach Shreeji Biotech has carefully chose sectors which are diverse in sectors but are essential for every Bio or Life Sciences company. The company was started as Agriculture service provider, but today it has jumped into Pharma and biotechnology. It has array of services in its working, ranges from training, contract research and contract manufacturing. It has provided field training to thousand of farmers and agri associated person, Lab training to Biosciences students, researchers…

Introduction Large scale farmer agitations across the country have made it imperative to look into the mounting agriculture debt in the country. Farmer suicides in India account for 11.2% of all suicides today. About 40% of the farmers are dependent on farming for their livelihoods. The reasons for their distress can be attributed to many reasons. A major one being the high dependence of Indian farmers on monsoon. Lack of it or an excess has been instrumental causing damages in most of India’s agriculture terrain since decades. This followed by diseases, pests etc. have also been why crops get destroyed.…