We've all heard tragic stories about someone dying of cardiac arrest on the football field or during a board meeting. What we've heard next are related stories about what a stressful, over-leveraged lifestyle brings along with it. The fact is there are certain genetic mutations, highly prevalent in the Indian subcontinent, that increase the risk of chronic heart failures in individuals. But, what if there was a genetic test that...
05:50 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Dumping the 'junk' DNA theory: From the time the final draft of the human genome was published in 2003, it was believed that 98 per cent of our genetic material inside each cell was 'junk', with no known function. The rest, about 2 per cent of our DNA that make 20,000-odd genes, are coded for the proteins that govern our life. In 2012, that theory was consigned to history. Results...
12:50 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The Co-founders: V Ramgopal Rao, professor, department of electrical engineering, IIT-B Soumyo Mukherjee, professor, department of biosciences & bioengineering, IIT-B Their Startup: NanoSniff Technologies What It Does: Builds explosive detection and cardiac disorder devices Funding: Priaas Investments, ICICI Spread Roadmap: To replace sniffer dogs; make point-of-care, hi-tech diagnostics Just how good are sniffer dogs at detecting explosives? They are the gold standard in detection; new technologies haven't yet beaten a...
04:04 PM, Sep 24, 2012
HK Mittal Age: 52 Profile: Adviser, member secretary, National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board His achievement Providing financial and institutional assistance to technologists for commercialising their tech/research Start a company in one day, close it in seven days. To expect such speed in India is more than utopian for entrepreneurs, but for HK Mittal this vision is a guiding force, even though he knows it takes three to six...
11:29 AM, Aug 25, 2012
This may not be the influenza season, but news about the virus that causes the pandemic has been infecting us in the last few weeks. First, two academic groups published their much-debated research about a lab-engineered strain of bird flu (H5N1) that shows how it can acquire the ability to rapidly spread among humans, even though now it only hops from bird to bird. For six months, various agencies, including...
02:58 PM, Jul 14, 2012
You've probably heard about Mitticool, the clay refrigerator from Gujarat, and Revolo, the plug-in system from KPIT Cummins that gives the benefits of a hybrid car. Its likely youve learnt that Embrace, the infant warmer that originated from Stanfords class of Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability, is now sold in India and elsewhere for one hundredth of the cost of incubators sold in Western markets. Its also likely that you...
11:23 AM, Jul 02, 2012
How is the brain wired? How does it code and decode information? What causes developmental disorders like autism and diseases like Alzheimers? These are the questions that have occupied neuroscientist Mriganka Sur over the past 30 years. By studying the connections in the brain"and by making connections in the lab through an interdisciplinary approach"he has transformed not only his own work, but neuroscience as well. It was in the late...
11:12 AM, Feb 25, 2012
A couple of weeks ago, some of us got into an interesting conversation with Howard Gardner, who was on a visit to India to deliver a series of lectures. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential psychologists in the world today. Author of 25 books that have been translated into 28 languages and best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, in 1995, he mounted a study...
10:58 AM, Feb 25, 2012
V Raja Age: 54 Designation: President & CEO, GE Healthcare India Education: B Com (Honours), chartered accountant and company secretary Career: Spent over 31 years in consumer products, food and healthcare industries; 14 years at GE Interests: Reading fiction, solving math puzzles, watching TV Q:Why are you leaving? Did GE decide to have a change in leadership or did you want to move on? V Raja: Its a valid question...
11:30 AM, Oct 24, 2011
A decade after George Bush set the clock back for stem cell research, the science is showing signs of regeneration. Stem cells are mother cells that give rise to other cell types in the body. One of the more visible and vocal proponents of human embryonic stem cells (ES), Stephen Minger, says that the number of trials that are currently on suggests that the field is emerging from the shadow...
10:41 AM, Sep 23, 2011
Think of a day in the year 2100. The walls of your room light up like screens and your chosen software program, a familiar face named, say, Molly, wakes you up in the morning and lays out the day's plan. As you enter the bathroom, DNA and protein sensors in the mirror, toilet, and sink swing into action, looking for any unhealthy signs. Then, you wrap some wires around your...
11:27 AM, Sep 08, 2011
The United States has always been a featherbed for scientists and researchers, irrespective of their origins or nationality. That is because of its unique institutional ecosystem that keeps the ground fertile for creativity, as well as individual entrepreneurship and commercial success. The contribution of these scientists in helping the global superpower keep its nose ahead of any other country in the world - technologically, economically and politically is significant. The...
09:42 AM, Aug 06, 2011
Wim Elfrink Age: 59 Designation: EVP, Emerging Solutions and Chief Globalisation Officer, Cisco Education: BA Engineering and Business Administration, Netherlands Career: Digital Equipment Corp, Hewlett Packard, Rank Xerox and Olivetti before Cisco in 1997 Hobbies: Running. Has run 42 marathons After four and a half years, how does your globalisation initiative look like? I would call it an evolution. I came here as a corporate entrepreneur with the objective to...
11:52 AM, Jun 18, 2011
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11:56 AM, Feb 26, 2011
It all started with Apple and its iPhone app store. Soon almost all electronic devices, from handhelds to car infotainment sets to airplane landing systems, took to application frenzy. Even governments now have app stores peddling public services-related mobile applications. Consumers are charmed; so are app developers and device makers, as a steady stream of revenue trickles in. But in this flurry, the semiconductor industry, with margins being chipped away...
01:25 PM, Dec 14, 2010
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