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A Science and Technology Blog

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Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Month: June 2019

Cardio vascular diseasesDiagnosticsHealthResearchScience

IIT Hyderabad fabricates device for early diagnosis of heart attack

IIT Hyderabad researchers have fabricated a a microfluidic device that can detect cardiac biomarker cardiac troponin I over a wide

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ResearchResearch ethicsResearch IntegrityRetractions

IIT Dhanbad’s Department of Applied Chemistry has 45 papers with duplicated, manipulated images

The Department of Applied Chemistry at IIT Dhanbad has 45 papers listed on Pubpeer for image duplication and/or manipulation. Of

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HealthLitchiResearchScience

It is safe to eat litchi fruit: Jacob John

Following the death of over 100 children in Muzaffarpur and a few more districts in Bihar due to hypoglycaemic encephalopathy,

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EducationResearchResearch scholarsScienceScience funding

‘Tenure track system: Incentivising performance better than making insecurity as a model’

MHRD has called for a meeting of all seven IISER directors to discuss the merits of tenure track system and

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HealthMedicineResearchScience

IIT Guwahati uses water-repelling cotton for sustained drug release

IIT Guwahati researchers have used extremely water-repelling cotton for sustained drug release lasting as long as 110 days. In moderately

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Climate changeGlobal warmingResearchScience

Bhubaneswar shows how urbanisation can increase local temperature

While Cuttack and Bhubaneswar have become 0.5 degree C hotter due to urbanisation during the period 2001-2010, warming in smaller cities

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PublishingResearchResearch ethicsScience

CSIR-CDRI scientists take steps to correct mistakes in images

On June 6, two days after the report on image duplication in papers by CSIR-CDRI scientists was published, the director

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HealthLitchiResearchScience

Explained: How litchi toxin is causing deaths in undernourished children in Muzaffarpur

Explained: How hypoglycaemic encephalopathy, which has caused most of the deaths in children in Muzaffarpur, is very different from encephalitis.

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HealthLitchiResearchScience

Litchi toxin kills over 100 children in Muzaffarpur

The death of over 100 children in about a month in Muzaffarpur district of north Bihar due to low blood

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PublishingResearchScience

Bhim B. Prasad of BHU has 51 papers with manipulated, duplicated images

Prof. Bhim Bali Prasad from Banaras Hindu University has 51 papers on Pubpeer for image manipulation and/or duplication. There are

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CancerHealthResearchScience

JNCASR finds a key protein conferring radiation sensitivity in cancer cells

JNCASR researchers have unravelled the molecular mechanism by which autophagy pathway gets enhanced leading to human cells becoming resistant to

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ResearchResearch ethicsScience

With 23 more added, Amrita Centre for Nanosciences has 38 papers with duplicated, manipulated images

With 23 more papers added to Pubpeer, the total number of papers with image duplication and/or manipulation from Amrita Centre

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ResearchResearch ethicsScience

Amrita Centre for Nanosciences has 12 papers with duplicated images, seven already corrected

At last count, the Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre,

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