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Oral tablets of Amphotericin B to treat fungal infections

Oral tablets of Amphotericin B to treat fungal infections

To treat fungal infections post COVID treatment, Hyderabad based Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), recently developed nano-fibre based oral tablets of Amphotericin B, called as AmB. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The researchers of IIT Hyderabad have decided to keep the technology free of intellectual property rights and ready for technology transfer for mass production

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India's first indigenous temperature data logger for the cold chain management

India’s first indigenous temperature data logger for the cold chain management

Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar (IIT Ropar) in Punjab has developed a first-of-its-kind IoT device – AmbiTag that records real-time ambient temperature during the transportation of perishable products, vaccines and even body organs and blood.  Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 That recorded temperature further helps to know whether that particular item transported from anywhere in

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DRDO develops COVID-19 antibody detection kit 'DIPCOVAN'

DRDO develops COVID-19 antibody detection kit ‘DIPCOVAN’

Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), the research laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has developed an antibody detection-based kit called ‘DIPCOVAN’. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The kit will help people detect if they have previously been exposed to the COVID-19 virus and if their bodies had produced antibodies to

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to Study How Massive Stars’ Blasts

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to Study How Massive Stars’ Blasts

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is going to launch James Webb Space Telescope that is planned to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA’s flagship astrophysics mission. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The JWST will provide improved infrared resolution and sensitivity over Hubble, and will enable a broad range of investigations across the fields

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More flexible storage conditions for BioNTech/Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

More flexible storage conditions for BioNTech/Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine

Recently, European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended a change to the approved storage conditions of Comirnaty, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer that will facilitate the handling of the vaccine in vaccination centers across the European Union (EU). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 With the new recommendations, an unopened thawed

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Magnetometer for low cost, reliable & real-time measurements of magnetic fields

Magnetometer for low cost, reliable & real-time measurements of magnetic fields

Researchers have demonstrated a low-cost digital system to efficiently measure unknown magnetic fields. Digital signals are the backbone of communication systems processed by hardware systems that transmit and receive the signals with the help of intermediate systems called ‘digital receiver systems’ or DRS. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A magnetometer is a device that measures

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