Inside BENEO’s new pulse plant: pioneering sustainable protein from faba beans
A group of researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered a promising developing drug that has been shown to selectively shrink excess fat by increasing fat cell metabolism. The
A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered that in laboratory tests and animal models, trehalose enhances the virulence of epidemic C. difficile lineages that predominate in patient infections. The increasing
A group of scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia have developed the world’s first ‘speed breeding’ technique that can boost the production of the crop by up to three times. The speed
A group of scientists at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden have discovered that eating more fibre can help trim one’s waistline and combat obesity. Fibre can be found in whole grains, fruit, vegetables and
A group of engineers at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in New Delhi have developed a solar-powered on-farm storage structure that can increase the shelf-life of fruits and vegetables in regions where cold storage
Scientists at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticulture Research (IIHR) have developed high humidity storage boxes that helps extend the shelf-life of leafy vegetables thereby cutting down the post-harvest losses. It can extend the shelf-life
The University of Patanjali and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh have inked an agreement, to jointly carry out research in the field of Ayurveda. Patanjali University is an educational arm of
A research team at the University of Kansas is developing a smartphone app for clinical use with patients receiving treatment for an eating disorder. The app is motivated by a new direction in the
Centre-of-Excellence in Genomics (CEG) at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, is celebrating a decade of using modern genome analysis methods with the goal of delivering crop varieties that are
Saurabh Mehta, associate professor at Cornell University in the U.S., along with his team, has developed a low-cost blood test that can detect iron and vitamin A deficiency in just 15 minutes. The small, portable diagnostic