Biotech & pharma
ARI Pune develops grape variety with high juice content
12 Mar 2020
The new grape variety, ARI-516, has small to medium bluish blackberries with one rudimentary seed in each berry, is sweet in taste with about 65-70 per cent juice content, gives yield of about 15-20 tonnes per acre, and it is tolerant to downy and powdery mildew diseases as well as resistant to anthracnose disease
Scientists have found longevity biomarkers
27 Aug 2019
Dassault expands life sciences business with $5.8 billion Medidata deal
14 Jun 2019
French aerospace and defence major Dassault Systemes has been expanding its operations into digital transformation and life sciences industry beginning 2012
And now, hybrid microbes consume CO2 to produce biodegradable plastics, fuel
12 Jun 2019
US researchers have used light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells to create “living factories” that eat harmful carbon dioxide and convert it into useful products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel
Indian agri-food scientists develop coloured wheat varieties
07 May 2019
Black wheat developed by the NABI, for instance, may help prevent fat deposition, control glucose levels, improve insulin tolerance and lower blood cholesterol, as indicated by mouse studies at NABI
Biosensor 'bandage' collects and analyzes sweat
18 Apr 2019
A biosynthetic dual-core cell computer
17 Apr 2019
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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