ISRO scientists make artificial heart

Materials and mechanisms used on Indian rockets have been tweaked by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to make a device which some say definitely a step towards the making of an “artificial heart”. The prototype has been successfully tested on animals. The ISRO team known for orbiting satellites and flying giant rockets to space, made…

Eating Broccoli five times a day reduces risk of cancer

Scientists showed that eating Broccoli steamed or freshly chopped five times per week could lower the risk of several types of cancer including liver, breast prostrate and colon cancers. The Vegetable could reduce he size and number of cancer nodules among those who have a high fat and sugar diet. Broccoli rich in vitamins C,…

Calcutta Street Restaurant in Brick Lane

Shrimoyee Chakraborty, 26, single girl from Jodhpur Park, North Calcutta, plans to create a tea bar at her London restaurant in Brick Lane and aspires to bring Calcutta flavours to London. She persuaded four investors to fund her Calcutta Street , Restaurant at 118 Brick Lane, London E1 6RL. “I was scared at first and…

First Zika vaccine breakthrough from India

Bharat Biotech an Indian biotech company has come up with full-fledged vaccine for Zika virus, and filed for global patents for its two Zika Vaccines. India’s globally significant ‘Zika biotech moment for India’ as the country is celebrating the 30th anniversary of setting up of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) began in 1986 under then…

Emergency in Brazil after 2,400 babies born with brain damage

Brazilian health authorities sounded the alarm about Pathogen, known as Zika, a mosquito-borne virus that they believe could be cause of thousands of infants born with damaged brain. Zika, a virus with serious neurological complications, was first discovered in forest monkeys in Africa over 70 years ago in the West Nile. Brazil’s health ministry found…

Guruji Iyengar’s 97th Birthday

Bellur Krishnamachar Iyengar, born December 14, 2015, the founder of Yoga known as “Iyengar Yoga” and internationally renowned yoga teacher, with his spiritual practices and techniques which can be used by all practitioners of Yoga. He used to answering standing on his head, which was one of the yoga asanas. He thought the pupils from…

Invisible killer in your home

Radon Rn⁶ is another little known invisible gas that kills 27 times more people than Carbon Monoxide, causing the deaths of 1, 100 people a year in the UK alone. Radon is a radioactive, odourless, colourless gas that is naturally present throughout UK and in other countries across the globe as well, naturally emitted in…

Bacon, Sausages, hot dogs, Salami, corned beef and ham can cause cancer

Bacon, Sausages, hot dogs, Salami, corned beef, beef jerky and ham as well as canned meat all are classified are processed meat and does cause cancer according to latest report from WHO. The World Health Organisation issued a warning that processed meat does cause cancer and red meat is probably carcinogenic. Processed meat which has…