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National Centre for Avian Ecotoxicology comes up in Coimbatore
Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar has inaugurated the National Centre for Avian Ecotoxicology at Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural Sciences (SACON) in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The purpose of the center is to explore the impact of chemical contaminants on individual species of birds and, where possible, link them ..
Topics: Climate change in India • Ecotoxicology • Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry • Mass spectrometry • Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change • Natural sciences • Salim Ali • Science • Scientific method
Potential of Gold in treatment of Cancer
At present, one isotope gold Au-198, (half-life 2.7 days) is used in some cancer treatments and for treating other diseases. Recently, an international team, led by University of Western Australia and Griffith University, has described how using two imaging techniques can allow scientists to see where gold complexes used in potential chemotherapeutic treatments end up ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2011
Topics: Chemistry • Gold • Imaging • Mass spectrometry • Mitochondrion • Nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry • Natural sciences • Physical sciences