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Possible link between autism and mercury
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| Texas researchers have found a possible link between autism and mercury in the air and water. |
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Cotton pulp for filtering
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| Siberian researchers have developed a low cost biological sorbent using
cotton pulp for efficient filtering of bacteria and viruses . |
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Plants can correct their genes
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| Scientists have discovered that plants can recover genetic characteristics from their ancestors even if the immediate parents did not contain the same. |
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Tantra medieval, mantra modern
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| Parkinson’s disease, recently in the news with the isolation of a gene related to the disease, was originally known as St Vitus dance. |
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Oil eating bacteria
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| Dr Banwari Lal, TERI, one of the awardees of the national bioscience awards this year has developed “microbe cocktails” for cleaning up oil spills and making sick oil wells perform again using microbes. |
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The way the wind blows
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| Monsoons could be affected and food grain production reduced if climate change is not addressed, cautions Prof Julian Hunt. |
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Data-mining on proteins made easy
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| Dr K Sekar along with his team of young colleagues maintain
knowledgebases that can be accessed over the internet for researchers to
obtain structural data of proteins and gene products. |
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Einstein in our lives
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| Einstein’s findings form the basis for many modern technologies in our lives today like microchips, lasers, etc. |
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Symptoms and treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder
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