Biotech & pharma
US scientists create 'living robots' that can reproduce themselves
01 Dec 2021
With the help of artificial intelligence, the researchers have found that the Xenobots are able to find tiny stem cells in a petri dish, gather hundreds of them inside their mouth, and bundle them out as new Xenobots in a few days
SARS-CoV-2 virus can only be traced to China’s Wuhan lab: study
31 May 2021
The to-be-published study reportedly claims that the Chinese scientists also tried to cover their tracks by reverse-engineering the viruses to make it look like they naturally evolved from bats
Brother, sister duo invents low-cost solution for preserving vegetables and fruits
03 Mar 2021
Sabjikothi is a wheel mountable storage for transportation of fresh fruits and vegetables, which is a cost-effective, microclimate based, portable storage that extends the shelf-life and preserve the freshness of fruits and vegetables anywhere between 5 to 30 days
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