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• Malaria Control System: a digitised surveillance system to bolster the fight against malaria

  

  Timely intervention is critical to curbing the spread of vector-borne diseases like malaria. A team of researchers from Mangaluru, Karnataka, has shown that information technology tools such as their Malaria Control System can be powerful allies in anti-malaria programs. Here is a report on how digitisation helped Mangaluru chalk its success story against malaria.

  Posted on Jul 05, 2021 in Health & Medicine, Bioinformatics, Policy, Research & Interdisciplinarity

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• “Optical Biopsies” may help burn victims

  

  In order to treat severe burn wounds, the progress of healing needs to be monitored regularly. This is usually done by measuring collagen levels using biochemical or histopathological methods. Now, researchers from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, have come up with a way to assess burn wound healing by using a minimally-invasive laser-based method to optically measure collagen.
  

  Posted on Dec 07, 2018 in Health & Medicine, Biophysics, Research & Interdisciplinarity

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• Understanding the forces that shape the brain

  

  Physical forces play a major role in how the cells in our brain grow and signal to each other. In a recent study, scientists from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore, and University of Hyderabad developed a simple assay to show that neurons are shaped by attachment to the substrate underneath them.

  Posted on Nov 06, 2018 in Neuroscience, Biophysics, Research & Interdisciplinarity

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