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Feb
13
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
The future of medicine

The future of medicine

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In May 2018, IIT Kharagpur set up India’s pioneering Bioelectronics Innovation Laboratory to develop futuristic battery-free implantable medical devices for the treatment of brain, nerve, muscle or spinal cord disorders that are untreatable by using standard medical practices. These medical devices will go a long way in providing affordable and reliable medical solutions. The laboratory will facilitate energy-efficient electronic system development, biocompatible packaging, bio-reliability assessment and animal testing rooms as a unified platform for an end-to-end intelligent medical system development. Prof. Sudip Nag of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering of IIT Kharagpur is heading the initiative. The…
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Feb
12
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Netting a windfall

Netting a windfall

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The Economic Times     India Today     Business Standard   NDTV A bioactive product invented by a start-up incubated at IIT Kharagpur’s STEP (Science and Technology Entrepreneurs’ Park) is silently changing the face of aquaculture in Eastern Midnapore. ‘Mr Fish’, produced with the latest technology, is one-of-a-kind of product that not only increases the size of the fish produced in the least possible time but, and more importantly, enhances its taste and nutritional quality. Produced by Zelence Industries Pvt. Ltd. (www.myzelence.com), the start-up from IIT Kharagpur, the product has come as a boon to fish farmers in Bengal and neighbouring Orissa. Both…
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Jan
21
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Secrets from Deccan Traps

Secrets from Deccan Traps

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Times of India      Kolkata(p1), Kolkata(p4),   Delhi,   Mumbai,   Hyderabad,   Bangalore,  Chennai,   Chandigarh,  Goa,   Lucknow,  Pune,   Jaipur,   Bhopal    IndiaTimes    The Week    Business Standard    TimesNow    The Sentinel Assam     NewsTrack   The Weather Channel     Eastern Mirror   India.com In 1993 filmmaker Steven Spielberg told us an exciting story of the dinosaurs and their creation from the blood of mosquitoes in the Jurassic era carrying dinosaur DNA. The DNA was so critical to the story that we saw John Hammond, a lead character, carry it in his walking stick all through the movie. That was few drops of blood and now researchers have found an…
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Dec
18
2018
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Smartphone App to Aid Smoking Cessation

Smartphone App to Aid Smoking Cessation

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Smartphone applications in the present times are the popular source of information on market intelligence. In the last decade, these gadgets have been revolutionizing the consumer world by replacing our wallets and bringing services such as cabs, restaurants, shops, IoT based smart homes at our doorsteps. These are also contributing to our fitness regime. But smartphones can give a lot more insights, they can tell what we are doing at the moment, our habits and the associated health hazards. This is what researchers at IIT KGP have confirmed through their latest innovation. A research team led by Prof. Ram Babu Roy at…
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Dec
05
2018
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Smart Diagnostics for Pulmonary Healthcare

Smart Diagnostics for Pulmonary Healthcare

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Business Standard (IANS)   Business Standard (PTI)    Deccan Chronicle   Biospectrum     Outlook    Quint     Devdiscourse Researchers at the Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering at IIT Kharagpur have developed a decision support system to diagnose malignant and other diseased tissues in the lungs. While one system can refer to CT scan images to detect lung nodules and test them for the possibility of malignancy, a second software can detect Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) patterns in chest HRCT images. “Biopsy especially in the lungs is a critical process, hence conducted only after initial medical analysis is done by expert…
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Nov
29
2018
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
The Healing Ozone

The Healing Ozone

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India Today    India Blooms   Business Standard   Economic Times    Financial Express   FirstPost   Outlook   The Week   CanIndia  New Indian Express   Quint  NDTV   AsiaNet  Manorama  Eenadu  India TV   Jagran Josh  Hitavada  Dainik Bhaskar While the world is debating on climate change and global warming, researchers at IIT Kharagpur have given the environmental evangelists a reason to rejoice. A research team from the Center of Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Science (CORAL) at IIT Kharagpur have come up with new data confirming that the Antarctic Ozone Hole is on a healing path. The researchers have collected data from 1979 to 2017, which shows though there was a loss…
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Nov
19
2018
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By Chirosree Basu
From the lab to the hospital

From the lab to the hospital

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Prof. Suman Chakraborty, Head, School of Medical Science and Technology, talks about the thrust areas, ongoing programmes, research, achievements and long-term goals of one of the youngest and most ambitious departments of IIT Kharagpur Could you talk about the genesis of SMST? The department started its journey in 2001 against a background where technology was progressively coming into the domain of medical world. It was felt that a unique school or department should be established that would work at the interface between medicine and technology. A medical school would be bothered about the clinical aspects of the study, not necessarily…
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Nov
16
2018
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By Chirosree Basu
Step on the gas!

Step on the gas!

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Financial Chronicle      Economic Times    Business Standard    Zee Business Economic Times Energy World    The Week     Millenium Times    Outlook Jagran Josh  NDTV   Devdiscourse    Suryaa    Sify   Energy Infra Post   The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) has been an immensely successful government program. Launched in May 2016, it aimed to safeguard the health of women and children by providing 5 crore LPG connections in the next 3 years (2016-2019) to BPL families with the support of Rs 1600 to each family. The government has recently decided to enhance the target to 8 crore LPG connections. The time period has been…
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Oct
12
2018
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Harvesting the Oceans

Harvesting the Oceans

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Business Standard   The Week    NDTV    Jagran Josh   Indian Express      IIT Kharagpur and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have signed an MoU on October 11, 2018 at New Delhi to facilitate cooperation in research and education between the two institutions. NTNU is an expert in Hydro Power, Ocean Modelling, Deep Sea Resources and Marine Technology which will be key areas of focus under this MoU. The two institutions shall seek to promote mobility of graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, joint research activities and publications, cross-participation in seminars and academic meetings and exchange of academic materials and…
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Oct
01
2018
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By Chirosree Basu
Hit the road, but carefully

Hit the road, but carefully

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An IIT Kharagpur road safety audit shows that unless speed is regulated, good mobility could mean more accidents If worn-out, crater-ridden, submerged stretches are the only image that flash in your mind when you think of ‘killer roads’, you are just monsoon-weary. Killer roads are also those gleaming blacktop surfaces stretching out for miles in between cities, towns, or even within cities, that lure motorists into putting that little bit of extra pressure on the accelerator. Speed, obviously, kills. With the rapid modernization of road infrastructure, India is thus seeing an alarming increase in the number of fatalities on road.…
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