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Friday, August 14, 2009 11:28 AM

Indian tigers key to global tiger recovery?

Indians have always taken pride in their tigers. So every time the dwindling tiger count comes to the fore, there's a national uproar. But now there's one more compelling reason to save Indian tigers. New research in today's issue of the open...
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Monday, June 29, 2009 4:47 PM

In the land of the Nobels

It's the Nobel season in the island town of Lindau in southern Germany, where every year around this time, Nobel laureates gather to interact, inspire and to some extent mentor, young researchers from all over the world. The meeting that started 58...
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Monday, February 23, 2009 11:05 AM

Treat your doc as god, but for heaven's sake ask questions

Let me start with an anecdote. Some three years ago, while researching for a story on clinical trials, I visited some hospitals in the city meeting doctors who ran human trials of new (also some old drugs for new indications) drugs. In each case I found...
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:23 AM

Trust me, I'm from the media

Okay, okay, this headline is to get eyeballs. But trust me, this headline is also what many journalists make the motto of their professional life (though I can't comment on how much they live up to it). And now, it seems, it even has a bearing on...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:12 PM

Is there a bias against developing world science?

Last week a four-nation study in Nature Reviews Genetics stressed how genomic medicine can empower developing countries to provide affordable healthcare to its people. It mentioned the Indian study, which was first announced in April and is the largest...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 6:20 PM

Are we smarter than 5th graders?

Couple of days ago, Professor Yash Pal , former UGC chairman and one of India's best known science communicators. (Remember Turning Point, on DD?), asked a startlingly simple question: Why does we always see the same side of the moon? To place matters...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:24 AM

Dissecting Indian science, publicly

It's good to see scientists, who often avoid debating across the table, discuss through the press. The beneficiary, almost always, is the reader. In two recent issues of Economic & Political Weekly two senior scientists literally pitch universities...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:00 PM

Risk assessment for breast cancer

Breast cancer, which until recently was thought to be a scourge of the West, is now rising in Asia, including India , that too at a younger age. While India has no national figures yet on the incidence of breast cancer, (the Indian Council of Medical...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:57 PM

We’ve evolved to fear cobras, not traffic lights…

That's what a behavioral ecologist from Tel Aviv University says. And driving in Bangalore for over 10 years, often exasperated at fellow drivers' and the meandering cattle's chaotic ways, half forgetting the traffic rules myself, I couldn't...
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