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Focussed approach rewarded About 1,000 novel genes found in both mouse and human Method of gene prediction would enhance analysis of genomes more closely related to the human genome, such as the monkey and other primates, as well as the chicken and rat genomes. Palm-shell concrete UNWANTED SHELLS from palm nuts could be used to make concrete for buildings and roads, solving a major environmental problem for many developing countries. Palm oil production generates tonnes of waste. This is either incinerated or dumped . ... Fastest computer worm A TEAM of network security experts in California has determined that the computer worm that attacked and hobbled the global Internet recently was the fastest one ever recorded. In a technical paper the experts report that the speed and nature of ... Storing information on sticky DNA IMAGINE INFORMATION stored on something only a hundredth the size of the next generation computer chip — and made from nature's own storage molecule, DNA. A team led by Richard Kiehl, a professor of electrical engineering at the University ...
THE TAMIL poet sang that the body is but an air-filled bag (Kaayame ithu poyyada, kaatradaitha paiyada); he could equally well have called it a blood-filled bag. An average adult human body has about five litres of blood. At rest, ...
KRISHNASWAMI VENKATARAMAN was born at Madras on June 7, 1901 in an erudite family. His two brothers, Prof. K. Swaminathan and Dr. K.S. Sanjivi, became well-known educationists. He studied chemistry in the Presidency College, Madras and obtained ...
Tractor drawn sugarcane planterUAL SUGARCANE planting is tedious and time consuming. Tractor drawn sugarcane planter performs the jobs of sett cutting, furrow opening, fertilizer placement and covering the setts, reducing time and labour. The two row sugarcane planter ... Low frequency tapping system A NEW system of tapping rubber trees, which would reduce the cost of production of natural rubber has been developed by scientists at Rubber Institute of India, Kottayam. The new system increases the annual production of rubber. The new system ... 
`Sree Varun' — promising cream-skinned sweet potatoA HIGH yielding, early maturing sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) variety with cream skin and matching flesh colour has been developed by the scientists at the Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI), Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. ... Managing tomato fruit borer TOMATO FRUIT borer complex consists of Helicoverpa armigera and Spodoptera litura. The former is brown having a black v-shaped speck at the centre hind wing with marginal black patches. The larvae are green or brown and are ...
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