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Vessels to be registered under a uniform coastal security system: Cabinet Secretary
New Delhi, Feb 28 (ANI): Cabinet Secretary K. M. Chandrashekhar met senior functionaries of the Government on Saturday and discussed issues relating to coastal security.
It was decided at the meeting that all vessels would be registered under [...]
Vessels to be registered under a uniform coastal security system: Cabinet Secretary
New Delhi, Feb 28 (ANI): Cabinet Secretary K. M. Chandrashekhar met senior functionaries of the Government on Saturday and discussed issues relating to coastal security.
It was decided at the meeting that all vessels would be registered under [...]
Gene variants associated with an elevated risk of hypertension found
Recent study has revealed the first common gene variants associated with an elevated risk of hypertension. Research team led by Christopher Newton-Cheh of the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Human Genetic Research studied the DNA of nearly 30,000 people.
The research team studied variants of two genes for these peptides — atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and [...]
Fluorescent proteins are transforming biomedical research
London, January 26 (ANI): Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University say that remarkable new tools, which spotlight individual cellular molecules, are helping advance biomedical research.
They have revealed that these new tools are photoactivatable fluorescent proteins (PAFPs) and other advanced fluorescent proteins (FPs).
Dr. Vladislav Verkhusha, associate professor of anatomy and [...]
Presley blasts critics for using Travolta tragedy to attack Scientology
London, January 7 (ANI): Enraged Lisa Marie Presley has expressed her fury at those trying to claim that her devastated pals John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston suspended their son’s medication following their religion’s anti-medicine theories.
The couple’s 16-year-old son, Jeff, who began suffering from seizures at the age of two, was found unconscious in [...]
Travolta’s late son ‘not victim of cult’, say scientologists
London, January 7 (ANI): John Travolta’s son Jett, who died following a seizure, was ‘not a victim of cult’, scientologists have claimed.
Jett, who began suffering from seizures at the age of two, was found unconscious in a bathroom in the family’s holiday home in the Bahamas.
The 16-year-old had later been taken to Rand Memorial Hospital, [...]
John Travolta to be quizzed over dead son’s ‘drug ban’
London, January 6 (ANI): John Travolta, who recently lost his son Jett following a seizure, will reportedly be quizzed over the 16-year-old’s medication.
The ‘Pulp Fiction’ actor and his wife Kelly Preston will purportedly face questions following claims that they suspended their son’s anti-seizure medicine.
Jett, who began suffering from fits at the age [...]
Travolta’s son could have been saved avoiding Scientology’s anti-medicine theories, says activist
New York, January 5 (ANI): An autism activist says that John Travolta’s chronically ill son Jett’s death, who is believed to have died after hitting his head on a bathtub following a seizure, could have been avoided had his Scientology practising parents decided not to follow their religion”’’s anti-medicine theories.
Sixteen-year-old Jett was speculated to [...]
Paradip Port to have deep draught iron ore berth
New Delhi, Jan 2 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved the project of construction of deep draught iron ore berth at Paradip Port on Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis at an estimated cost of Rs.591.35 crore.
Out of total cost, Rs.506.25 crore will be borne by the BOT operator while Rs.85.10 crore [...]
Government reviews coastal security
New Delhi, Dec. 29 : The Government on Monday held a high-level meeting on coastal security and took stock of the measures to plug loopholes in this route, as a step to tighten security at the sea-front.
Attending the meeting the National Security Adviser (NSA) M. K. Narayanan, Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta, BSF Director General M. [...]
Bacteria can directly cause blood clotting
London, November 3: An international research team has found that bacteria can directly cause human blood and plasma to clot, something that has long been thought to have been lost during the course of vertebrate evolution.
The researchers believe that their new findings may help advance scientists’ understanding of coagulation during bacterial infections, which in turn [...]
