High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
... Approximately 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across the globe every year, and 80 percent of these individuals are estimated to be women and girls, according to the...Climate change signal detected in the Indian Ocean
... ... ... "At the same time, we...India's biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor
... ... India is innovating its way out of poverty, says co-author Peter A. Singer, MD, of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global H...OneWorld Health selects Odyssey Research for phase 4 study in India
SAN FRANCISCO, USA / NEW DELHI, INDIA March 28, 2007 -- The Institute for OneWorld Health, a US-based non-profit pharmaceutical company that develops drugs for people with neglected diseases in the developing world, today announced the selection of Odyssey Research, a Bismarck, North Dakota-based clinical trial management organization (TMO) with offices in New Delhi, India, to support its upco...New technologies coming too fast for Indian farmers
The arrival of genetically modified crops has added another level of complexity to farming in the developing world, says a sociocultural anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis.... Glenn D. Stone, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and of environmental studies, both in Arts & Sciences, at Washington University in St. Louis, has completed the first detailed anthropological fieldwork on...UK-India success for University of Nottingham
... ... ... The first grant, of mor...The new form of trypanosomiasis discovered in India stems from a deficiency in apolipoproteinL-1
The two known types of human trypanosomiasis, endemic in two regions of the world, are sleeping sickness in Africa, caused by the parasites Trypanosoma brucei gambiense or T. b. rhodiense, and Chagas' disease in South America induced by T. cruzi. Everywhere else, normally only animals are infected by trypanosomes that, although specific for humans are not pathogenic for them. Yet, in 2004, the f...Researchers make progress in studying genetic traits of India-born populations
... In response to this dearth of information, a team of researchers, including Pragna I. Patel, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at...Science study explains polio's tenacious grip in India
This press release is also available in ... ,... ,... ,... and... New research helps explain polio's persistence in India despite massive immunization...Agronomy, crop, soils research presented in Indianapolis
More than 3,000 scientists from around the world will meet at the International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). The U.S. Canola Research Conference is a featured event held in conjunction with the ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meetings. Attendees will discover the latest research advances, learn...International rice industry prepares to gather in India
Los Banos, Philippines and Delhi, India The international rice industry is preparing to meet in India at a time of unprecedented change for the food that feeds almost half the planet....... Held every four years, the International Rice Congress (IRC) will bring together all aspects of the rice industry with a special focus on the latest research, science, and technology. Hosted by the Indian Min...National Academies advisory: Indian Point nuclear power plant
After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, citizens of New York State raised concerns that the Indian Point nuclear power plant, located 40 miles north of New York City, may be vulnerable to a terrorist attack as well, and some called for the plant to be shut down. Alternatives to the Indian Point energy center for meeting New York electric power needs, new from the National Academies' Nati...First characterization of chikungunya viruses from Indian Ocean outbreak
Since late 2004, a large outbreak of chikungunya fever in the Indian Ocean has caused a public health crisis and alarmed international experts. A team of scientists led by Sylvain Brisse (of the Pasteur Institute) now reports the first molecular data on the viruses involved in the outbreak in the international open-access journal PLoS Medicine. ...... The outbreak affects the populations of Comor...Alcoholism, smoking and genetics among Plains American Indians
Alcoholism and smoking have a high rate of co-occurrence in the general population. Yet little is known about the co-morbidity of alcoholism and smoking among American Indians. In the March issue of , researchers examine patterns of alcohol and tobacco use among Plains American Indians, as well as the influence that a catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) functional polymorphism called Val158Met...Florida Tech to host 25th Anniversary Indian River Lagoon Symposium
The conference hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Gleason Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 10. The hours will be 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, in the Charles and Ruth Clemente Center for Sports and Recreation. A generous donation from Hubbs-Seaworld Research Institute allows limited admission of high school students and their teachers, and senior citizens at no charge....... Twenty-five y...Grant will promote Yale-India environmental ties
A research and exchange program between the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) and the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India is being established by a three-year grant from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation of Boston. ...... The collaborative program, "Building Capacity for Environmental Resource Management in India," will emphasize teaching, training and research in th...Mark Estelle of Indiana University awarded Kumho International Science Prize
Indiana University Professor Mark Estelle has been awarded the 2006 Kumho International Science Prize by the Kumho Cultural Foundation of Seoul, Korea and its chairman, Sam Koo Park. The awards process was administered on behalf of the Kumho Cultural Foundation by the American Society of Plant Biologists.... ...After considering a number of possible awardees, each responsible for...major discover...Genetic analysis of Asian elephants in India reveals some surprises
Researchers in India and from The Earth Institute at Columbia University have discovered that one of the few remaining populations of Asian elephants in India is actually two genetically distinct groups. The results of the study, which appear in the current issue of the journal Animal Conservation, could have far-reaching implications in conservation plans for the endangered elephants as well as...UK science helps farmers in Africa and India
As the world's attention is focused on issues of aid and trade in developing countries, UK researchers have shown how science can improve the lives of farmers in Africa and Asia. Genetic research at a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) sponsored institute has been used by Indian researchers to develop a new strain of pearl millet that is resistant to attack by downy mi...American Indians and Alaska Native veterans have higher mortality rate after surgery than Caucasians
HANOVER, NH/WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT Contributing to growing literature on marked racial and ethnic disparities in US healthcare, a study led by Dartmouth Medical School has concluded that American Indians and Alaska Natives have a greater chance of death within 30 days of surgery and suffer more from several preoperative risks compared to Caucasian patients. ......Published in the June issue o...Rock on! Indiana limestone: NIST's first and latest SRM
It may sound like sentimentality, but it's coldly practical--the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has reissued one of its earliest Standard Reference Materials (SRMs), a mineral sample first distributed in 1910. Issue "d" of SRM 1 consists of a 70-gram sample of argillaceous ("containing clay") limestone quarried in Putnam County, Ind. NIST certifies each sample for concentra...Joslin hosts conference on diabetes in American Indian/Alaska Natives, May 16-19 in Denver
DENVER - May 12, 2005 - A coalition of leading health organizations today announced the first national conference to address cardiovascular disease and diabetes within the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. The AI/AN conference will focus on increasing the knowledge of healthcare providers, tribal community members and leaders, and urban community health leaders on the link be...DuPont announces research agreement with India's National Chemical Laboratory
WILMINGTON, Del. and GURGAON, India, April 25, 2005 DuPont today announced it has signed a research agreement with the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune, India. Under terms of the agreement, DuPont will have access to the talents and capabilities of one of India's premier research and development laboratories to grow new market-facing technologies. The first research projects NCL will...Lilly Endowment gives Indiana University $53 million for life sciences
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert announced today that the Lilly Endowment Inc. is giving IU Bloomington $53 million to broaden and intensify its life sciences research, retain its best faculty and attract new scientists. The grant is the largest IUB has ever received....... Funds will be focused on metabolomics and cytomics, emerging fields that are bringing an ex...US-India research team completes analysis of X chromosome
By intensely and systematically comparing the human X chromosome to genetic information from chimpanzees, rats and mice, a team of scientists from the United States and India has uncovered dozens of new genes, many of which are located in regions of the chromosome already tied to disease....... Regions of the X chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes (Y is the other), have been linked to menta...Indiana University scientists' research success puts Indiana in new stem cell business
INDIANAPOLIS -- Scientific discoveries by two Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have led to the creation of a life sciences company whose products could someday repair the blood vessels of heart attack victims and diabetics. ......Working with the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. and BioCrossroads, Mervin C. Yoder Jr., M.D., and David A. Ingram Jr., M.D., have crea...Four Max Planck Partner Groups starting in India
This release is also available in ...The first four Max Planck Partner Groups will be ceremoniously inaugurated on December 17, 2004 within the framework of a gala event at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. Professor Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn, Vice President of the Max Planck Society, and Professor Dr. V.S. Ramamurthy, State Secretary at the Indian Department of Science & Technology will welc...New monkey discovered in Northeastern India
A species of monkey previously unknown to science has been discovered in the remote northeastern region of India, according to the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Named after the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh where it was found, the Arunachal macaque---a relatively large brown primate with a comparatively short tail---is described in a forthcoming issue of the Internationa...Indiana University one of the nation's 'best places to work,' scientists say
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University and Purdue University are two of the nation's 10 "Best Places to Work in Academia," according to an international survey of 1,456 researchers by The Scientist magazine.... ...An accompanying article in the magazine's Nov. 8 issue, "Best Places to Work: What's Important to the Academic Scientist?" reveals that American researchers are primarily i...