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Science congress fails to attract best brains
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2008
the science congress which ended on January 7 failed to create an impact. Held in Visakhapatnam, the key theme of the five-day conference organized by the Indian Science Congress Association was a 'Knowledge-based society using Environmentally Sustainable Science and Technology.
Human-animal embryos for stem cell research
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2007
Controversial human-animal embryos can now be created for stem cell research.
China's fraud scientists list
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
The National Natural Science Foundation of China has blacklisted 13 academicians for fraud, according to the daily Xinhua. This is the
institute's fourth round of "naming and shaming" of scholarly fraudsters since 2005. The fraudulent practices included plagiarism, fabricating data,
falsifying signatures and violating application procedures and other rules to gain access to funds meant for scientific research.
It's time India had a scientific ethics body
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2007
Need for an independent ethics body for India's science research has got stronger after a reputed science journal has recently withdrawn an Indian research study on cancer cells. On February 23, 2007, the Journal of Biological Chemistry called off a study by researchers from the Pune-based National Centre for Cell Sciences (nccs) on charges of data manipulation.
Technology To The Core, Science and Technology with Indira Gandhi
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2007
US Senate votes to lift restrictions on funds for stem cell research
Issue Date: May 15, 2007
On April 11, 2007, the us Senate voted to lift a key restriction by us president George W Bush on the federal funding of stem-cell research. Ignoring Bush's threat of a second veto, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed the Stem Cell Enhancement Act of 2007. But it failed to get the two-third majority required to override an expected presidential veto (see 'Blocking science', Down To Earth, August 15, 2006).
EU for more funds in scientific research
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2007
the European Union (eu) has come up with new funds to promote the best ideas in science and technology. The first ever pan-European research body, the European Research Council, will dole out cash regardless of location or institution within eu. It aims for excellence and to "bring the Nobel prizes back to Europe".
Debate over pseudoscience in China
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2007
China's science community is split over 'pseudoscience'. The term for unscientific theories claiming to be scientific has been fodder for intense public debate in the country since November 2006. The debate is on whether to remove the term from China's science popularisation law of 2003. Many argue that the term is being used as a weapon to attack innovation. But others differ.
European Commission's research commissioner on India's coaction with EU
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2007
What will be the focus of joint research projects between India and the eu?
Interviewee:
Janez Potocnic
Third phase of Genome Valley in Hyderabad
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2007
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has said that the state government was developing the third phase of Genome Valley in Hyderabad over an area of 120 hectares. A biotech incubation centre would be set up and be supported with technical inputs from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad.
