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Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): Scientists from Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in Tarragona have come up with a novel biosensor that can instantly detect Salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever.

The technique uses carbon nanotubes and synthetic DNA fragments that activate an electric signal when they link up with the pathogen.

“We have developed a [...]

Washington, July 9 (ANI): Ohio State University researchers have developed a new method to make materials for gas sensors that detect toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) and biological warfare agents.

According to Patricia Morris, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Ohio State, the challenge is to design a material that reacts quickly and reliably to [...]

Kuala Lumpur, July 5 (ANI): A Malaysian company in Gombak has been raided for marketing coffee mixture with a secret ingredient that guaranteed to “perk up” drinkers – later identified as Viagra.
Enforcement officers from the Health Ministry found the direct-selling company used individuals to distribute the product in small quantities to hoodwink authorities.
The secret ingredient [...]

Washington, June 26 (ANI): A physicist has presented a way of increasing the efficiency of concentrator solar cells, in which light is concentrated 400-fold through lenses onto solar cells.

The concentrator technology enables expensive semi-conductor material to be replaced with cheaper lens systems, and greater efficiency to be achieved.

The contacting of the semi-conductor layers plays a [...]

Washington, May 19 (ANI): A new study has determined that concrete may absorb more carbon dioxide (CO2) than earlier estimates suggested.

Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity’s carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the CO2 byproduct from the production of cement, one of concrete’s principal components.

Yet, [...]

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Darker colours in leafy vegetables are often signs of antioxidants that are thought to provide a variety of health benefits to human beings. Now, an American research team has developed a way to make lettuce darker and redder using ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

The dark red tinges on a leaf of red [...]

Washington, May 8 (ANI): What attracts silkworms to mulberry leaves, their primary food source, is no longer a secret because Japanese scientists have found that a jasmine-scented chemical emitted in small quantities by the leaves triggers an olfactory receptor in the insects’ antennae.

Kazushige Touhara, from The University of Tokyo, says that the new finding contrasts [...]

Indian corn exports may reach 800,000 tonnes in the marketing year ending September, higher than expected, helped by a a global supply crunch and rising prices in the US, a trade official said on Friday.
“Exports now look better than previously expected. It can be around 0.7 – 0.8 million tonnes (in the corn marketing year),” [...]

Washington, March 25 (ANI): Researchers studying a hydrogen-producing, single-celled green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, have unmasked a previously unknown fermentation pathway that may open up possibilities for increasing hydrogen production.

C. reinhartii, a common inhabitant of soils, naturally produces small quantities of hydrogen when deprived of oxygen. Like [...]

Taipei – Taiwan’s farm exports rose 12 per cent in value year-on-year, with rice and carrot exports surging more than 100 per cent, due to growing overseas demand, a newspaper said Wednesday.
According to the United Evening News, Taiwan’s 2008 farm exports hit 3.8 billion US dollars, up 12 per cent from 2007, bringing exports [...]

Washington, Mar 17 (ANI): Adult stem cells have a major role to play in curing type 1 diabetic mice, according to a new study by an Indian-origin scientist.

In the study, the researchers focussed on a study by Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan and colleagues in his Baylor College of Medicine laboratory, in which they cured mice [...]

London, March 16 (ANI): Madonna is reportedly trying to keep age from hitting her with a rigorous workout that often leaves her crying in pain.

The Queen of Pop was said to be pushing herself to the limit with an eight-to-10-hour routine to remain fit for her year-long Sticky and Sweet tour.

Her strict routine [...]

Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): A new market analysis released by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade-monitoring network, has determined that the few surviving elephants in Indo-China are under increasing threat from booming illegal ivory prices in Vietnam.

An assessment of the illegal ivory trade in Viet Nam said Vietnamese illegal ivory prices could be the highest in the [...]

Washington, Feb 6 (ANI): In a new study, researchers have found that bacteria present in the gut can release substances that may protect the body against colon cancer and inflammatory bowel disease.

Scientists at the University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health and from the MTT Agrifood Research Institute in Finland showed that bacteria [...]