[ad_1] The Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT) has synthesized Key Starting Materials (KSM) for Remdesivir, the first step in developing the active pharmaceutical ingredient in a drug. IICT has also started so-called technology demos for drug makers like Cipla so that manufacturing can start in India if needed. …
Read More »‘Last season was right time to step away as captain’ – Faf du Plessis
[ad_1] Faf du Plessis stepped down as South Africa’s captain after “one of the toughest seasons” of his career to concentrate on developing future leaders, an area he believes his country needs to work on. In his first media engagement since the end of the 2019-20 home summer, du Plessis …
Read More »A step towards heat tolerant wheat production.
[ad_1] Plants have Rubisco Activase (Rca) that tells the plant’s energy-producing compound (Rubisco) to start up in sunlight and tells it to stop when the leaf is deprived of light to conserve energy. Now, scientists are swapping just one 380 molecular building block that forms an Rca in wheat. Doing …
Read More »India to step up battle for 2032 Olympics after pandemic: sports chief – World
[ad_1] India will step up its battle to win the 2032 Olympic Games and other international events when the global coronavirus pandemic eases, its top sports leader Narinder Batra told AFP. Ten years after hosting the Commonwealth Games, the Indian Olympic Association president said his country had lessons to learn …
Read More »The new COVID-19 vaccine is promising in monkeys. Next step: humans.
[ad_1] An experimental COVID-19 vaccine protected the monkeys from contracting the viral infection, according to an unrevised report. The new vaccine has now entered clinical trials in china to test the drug in humans. Although the animal study, published April 19 in the prepress database bioRxiv, not formally reviewed, scientists …
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