Authorities in Shanghai started administering an inhalable vaccine against Covid-19, apparently a world first. The vaccine is being offered for free as a booster dose for previously vaccinated people.
The vaccine is a mist that is sucked in through the mouth.
The inhalable vaccine has been developed by the Chinese biopharmaceutical company CanSino Biologics Inc. as an aerosol version of its one-shot adenovirus vaccine, which uses a relatively harmless cold virus.
Oct 29, 2022
Centre Restricts Use of Herbicide Glyphosate over Health Hazards
The Centre officially restricted the use of the widely used herbicide, glyphosate, fearing risk to human and animal health. From now, glyphosate will be applied only through pest control operators (PCOs).
PCOs are licensed to use deadly chemicals for treating pests such as rodents. A formal gazette notification on the restriction was issued last night, more than two years after a draft on the same was circulated for comments and views.
Glyphosate has been majorly used in tea plantations in India where it is applied to control herbicides. The chemical is also used on non-crop areas to control unwanted growth.
Oct 28, 2022
Jadavpur University Only State-run Institute in QS Sustainability World Ranking
Jadavpur University earned the distinction of being the only state-run varsity from India to feature in the QS Sustainability World Ranking 2023.
A total of 700 institutes featured in the list, of which 15 were from India.
A JU spokesperson said that the ranking is based on sustainability performance focusing on environmental and social impacts of the higher education institutes and has considered metrics like sustainable education, sustainable research, equality, knowledge exchange and impact of education.
Jadavpur University was at overall eighth position from India.
QS World University Rankings is one of the top international rankings measuring the popularity and performance of universities all over the world.
Oct 27, 2022
IIT Bombay, Delhi, JNU most Sustainable Institutes in India: QS World University Rankings (Sustai...
IIT-Bombay is the best educational institutions in India in the inaugural QS World University Rankings: Sustainability released in October 2022. A total of 15 Indian universities ranked in the list with the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) featuring in the 281-300 rank range, followed by IIT-Delhi (321-340 rank) and Jawaharlal Nehru University at the third rank (361-380).
QS World University Rankings: Sustainability ranking is a new framework to evaluate how universities are taking action to tackle the world's most pressing environmental and social issues.
This year, experts evaluated over 1300 higher education institutions meeting specific eligibility requirements, out of which 700 institutions appeared on the final ranking list.
Globally, the University of California, Berkeley (from the US) took the lead in the sustainability as it has achieved top scores in both the Environmental Impact and Social Impact categories, each contributing 50 per cent of the overall score. It was followed by two Canadian institutions, the University of Toronto (second) and the University of British Columbia (third).
Other universities which appeared in the top 10 were the University of Edinburgh, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)  and University of Sydney  at fifth rank, University of Tokyo , University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and the University of Auckland.
The US dominated the rankings with 135 ranked universities (19.2 per cent of the total), while the United Kingdom was the second-most represented country, with 67 universities ranked (9.5 per cent). Germany was the third-best for overall representation, with 39 universities, followed by China with 37 and Australia with 33.
Oct 26, 2022
BHU Researchers Discover a Micro RNA that can Specifically Kill Cancer Cells
BHU researchers discovered a Micro RNA that can specifically kill cancer cells and this can be developed into a harmless therapy to cure cervical cancer. The breakthrough came from a team led by Dr. Samarendra Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor, School of Biotechnology, Institute of Science.
The BHU research team was conducting a study which found that the viral E6 gene could be suppressed by a human micro-RNA - miR-34a. This killed off only cervical cancerous cells by switching off an onogenic cell cycle factor.
This finding is important as it paves the way for a therapy that will target only cervical cancerous cells – normal or non-cancerous cells did not deteriorate in any way in the study.
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