India Science Wire

With the prize money, Dr Karnad plans to develop ‘SharkWatch’, a citizen-science programme, to record data on shark fishing and landings at major fishing harbours along the Coromandel coast.

Present methods to detect this protein require sophisticated and costly instruments. But our scientists are changing that!

“To minimise the use of petroleum-based plastics, there has been an increase in the research to develop biodegradable packaging materials using natural agro-based polymers.”

A new nanomaterial developed by a group of Indian scientists promises to overcome such difficulties and also make the process of reading latent fingerprints faster.

Contamination of vegetables by E.coli and Salmonella bacteria are the most common causes of food poisoning. But how this happened was unknown – Till now!

With the potential to help hospitals and clinics detect antibiotic-resistant pathogens, this development could be revolutionary for India’s public health sector! #Innovation #IIT #Health