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Terafil

Terafil water filters have been in news in connection with low cost water filters developed in India. Terafil Water Filter is a low cost device to filter impure...

September 28, 2014

MANAS Chip

MANAS Chip refers to Multiplexed ANAlog Signal Processor (MANAS) CHIP developed by Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP). Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) has a two-fold objective to carry...

September 28, 2014

PEDOT

Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) or PEDOT (or sometimes PEDT) is a conducting polymer based on 3,4-ethylenedioxylthiophene or EDOT monomer. Advantages of this polymer are optical transparency in its conducting state, high...

September 28, 2014

Particle Replication in Non-wetting Templates

PRINT (Particle Replication in Non-wetting Templates) technology is a new technology related to synthesis of artificial blood. University of North Carolina researchers used technology known as PRINT (Particle...

September 28, 2014

Corexit

Corexit is a product line of solvents primarily used as a dispersant for breaking up oil slicks. It is produced by Nalco Holding Company which is associated with...

September 28, 2014

Vanadium Redox Battery

Vanadium redox flow batteries are large, rechargeable batteries that use tanks of liquid and charged vanadium electrolytes to produce and store energy. Examples of the technology operate in...

September 28, 2014

Chandipura virus

Chandipura virus is a member of the Rhabdoviridae family that is associated with an encephalitic illness in humans. It was first identified in 1965 after isolation from the...

September 28, 2014

Prions

Prions are made up of Proteins and they have no RNA/ DNA. They are not viruses and are known to be the “proteins that cause infections”. Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, also...

September 28, 2014

ACTN3 Gene

Alpha-actinin 3 is gene in humans whose helps in formation of skeletal muscle. The ACTN3 gene encodes instructions for making a specific muscle protein. The ACTN3 gene encodes...

September 28, 2014

 Binary Chemical Weapons

Chemical weapons or Munitions in which the toxic agent is not contained within the weapon in its active state, but in the form of two chemical precursors, physically separated...

September 28, 2014

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