Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

India’s First Demonstration Facility For Biopolymers In Pune: The Union Minister inaugurated India’s first Demonstration Facility for Biopolymers in Pune. Biopolymers are materials that have been manufactured from biological sources such as fats, vegetable oils, sugars, resins, and proteins. The biopolymers have more complex structures than synthetic polymers therefore they are more active in vivo. […]

Tele MANAS: Tele MANAS is now available as a comprehensive mobile platform – Tele MANAS App – developed for the public. Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele MANAS) was started by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare 2022. It seeks to function as a comprehensive, integrated, and inclusive 24×7 tele-mental health […]

Europa Clipper mission: NASA is set to launch Europa Clipper mission today. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket. About Europa Clipper Mission Europa Clipper Mission is a NASA mission aimed at exploring Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is considered one of the top candidates […]

AI-Generated Synthetic Medical Images: The rise of AI-generated synthetic medical images can provide an ethical, scalable, and cost-effective solution to the medical field. Synthetic Medical Image is generated by AI or computer algorithms without being captured by traditional imaging devices such as MRI, CT scans, or X-rays. These images are entirely constructed using mathematical models […]

Alkanes : Study Researchers have developed a novel method to activate alkanes using confined chiral Brønsted acids, significantly enhancing the efficiency and selectivity of chemical reactions. Alkanes are organic compounds that consist entirely of single-bonded carbon and hydrogen atoms and lack any other functional groups. Alkanes have the general formula CnH2n + 2 (where n […]

X-Band Radar: After recent devastating floods and landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad district, the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences approved an X-band radar to be installed in the district. An X-band radar is a radar that emits radiation in the X-band of the electromagnetic spectrum: 8-12 GHz, corresponding to wavelengths of around 2-4 cm. The smaller […]

Rare Diseases : In News The Delhi High Court issued directions aimed at improving the availability of so-called “orphan drugs”, which are medications used to treat “rare diseases”. Rare Diseases is a health condition of low prevalence that affects a small number of people compared with other prevalent diseases in the general population. There are […]

Murine Typhus: A 75-year-old man from Kerala who recently travelled to Vietnam and Cambodia was diagnosed with the bacterial disease murine typhus. Murine Typhus is an infectious disease caused by the flea-borne bacteria Rickettsia typhi. It is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected fleas It is also known as endemic typhus, flea-borne typhus […]

TDP1 : Cancer Treatment Recent research by scientists at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, has identified a new approach for cancer treatment by targeting a DNA repair enzyme called TDP1. Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 (TDP1) is a DNA repair enzyme that plays a crucial role in fixing DNA damage induced by […]

Footrot Disease: The footrot disease is killing the sheep and goats of Gaddi shepherds in Himachal Pradesh. Footrot Disease is a highly contagious disease affecting the interdigital (between the toes) tissue of ruminants. It is one of the most common causes of lameness in cattle and sheep and can result in serious economic loss. Once […]