Author: Biotech Express

As 2019 enters its second half, BioSpace takes a look at some of the warning letters issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to the biopharma industry. In March, BioSpace took a look at a number of the warning letters issued across the industry and since then, more companies have been cited for violating regulatory codes. Hospira Healthcare India – The FDA cited Hospira Healthcare India following a 2018 inspection of the company’s manufacturing facility in India. The warning letter summarizes significant violations of current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) regulations for finished pharmaceuticals at the facility. Violations include inadequate…

According to a post by Prasad Ravindranath, Posted on July 31, 2019, Dr. Mamta Chawla-Sarkar, a senior scientist at ICMR’s NICED has 16 papers listed on PubPeer for image duplication and/or manipulation. Six of these papers were published when she was a Post-doc in Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Science. A senior scientist — Dr. Mamta Chawla-Sarkar — in Kolkata’s National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR-NICED) has 16 papers listed on PubPeer website for image duplication and/or manipulation. Besides the 16, a paper published in 2014 in PLOS ONE…

Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced the Thermo Scientific Avizo2D software, an AI-powered automated imaging and analysis software designed to help materials and life science researchers acquire fast and accurate statistics from their electron microscopy (EM) images without extensive image processing expertise. The new software, unveiled at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2019, allows scientists to build customized “recipes” or automated, reproducible workflow scripts that speed up their image analyses. The software combines deep learning models, advanced image processing technology, and modules using Python scripts and scientific tools to help researchers seamlessly analyze their EM images. Dozens of pre-defined recipes from the Amira-Avizo…

Quoted “The Hidden Jewel” by Utkarsh Palnitkar, ex KPMG Life Science Specialist, his maiden after a visit to ASPIRE-BioNEST, So impressed with the BioNEST, he agrees with the author who tossed word “Plug-and-Play Life Science Incubator that is Unique and Diverse” that recently inducted into the entrepreneurial nurturing activity of the existing incubators on the campus University of Hyderabad (UoH). “The Best BioNEST” enthusiastically and passionately commented by Professor Padmanaban, G, an eminent life scientist from Indian Institute of Science and the Senior Advisor, Science and Technology, BIRAC during the inaugural and just after 1st anniversary of BioNEST at UoH,…

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), under the Ministry of Science and Technology setup in 1986 has laid emphasis on promotion of excellence and innovation for discovery, early and late stage translational research in the areas of agriculture, affordable healthcare & medical technology, food & nutritional security, animal biotechnology, environmental safety, clean energy & bio-fuel, bio-manufacturing, etc. This article highlights current major achievements and existing programms of biotechnology in India which comes under control of DBT, India. Legislations passed in current year The DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill: The Lok Sabha has Passed “The DNA Technology (Use and Application)…

In the world of Cricket, talismanic bowlers like Shane Warne, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, MuttiahMuralitharan, RavichandranAshwin, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Bishan Singh Bedi, SaqlainMushtaq are some of the notable names that have brought accolade for their country. Their peerless talent to spin the leather ball and breakthrough the opponent’s defences is incredible. However, shockingly the trick of spin is starting to get familiar and commonly practised in the field of scientific publications. Nowadays journal publications have become a major factor in analysing the research output of an individual. In the current scenario of “Publish or Perish”, there seems to be a…

by Kamal Pratap Singh |   PDF There was time when few researchers were feeling overwhelmed because of their achievements, but suddenly a paradigm shift occurred and everything changed abruptly. This is case with few professors who graduated in scientific misconduct and of some who even continued it till superannuation, some are fellows of Indian Science Academies and some are enjoying international positions. In this article we have filtered out 85 papers of biological sciences, from 01-07-2018 to 15-07-2019 from ‘’Retraction Watch database’’, a database that brings problemaic papers into attention. A total of 84 papers involving more than 300 researchers…