Health

December, 2022

• 22 December

  GLENEAGLES GLOBAL HEALTH CITY PERFORMS 2 UTERUS TRANSPLANTS

  

  Hyderabad, 22nd December 2022: Gleneagles Global Health City (GGHC), a leading multi-organ transplant centre in Asia, performed 2 uterus transplants proctored by Prof. Dr Jiri Fronek Head of Transplant Surgery Department, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic. Uterus transplants are a new modality that gives hope to young women who are suffering from hypoplasia – a condition where the uterus is underdeveloped …
• 14 December

  Pheromone play a role in reproduction of mouse deer

  

  New Delhi, December 14 (India Science Wire): Indian chevrotain or mouse deer plays a significant role in the forest ecosystem as a seed disperser. Though commonly found in forested areas, this smallest wild deer has been listed in Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act (1972) due to frequent hunting for bushmeat. A group of researchers from the Laboratory for …
• 14 December

  The Vaccine War, Helmed By Vivek Agnihotri Starts Rolling

  

  After the blockbuster hit The Kashmir Files, filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri kick-starts the shoot for The Vaccine War in Lucknow. Sharing a picture of script, clap and first day ceremony on his social media, filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri captioned it, “GM. We live for new things. New happiness. New laughters. New challenges. Yet, we feel comfortable in the old & …

November, 2022

• 18 November

  Indigenous 3D bio-printer to print human tissues

  

  New Delhi, Nov 18th (India Science Wire): Bio-printing is a method of tissue replication that temporarily or permanently supports and nurtures living cells. This technique is a potential alternative to organ transplantation, which could be useful in manufacturing functional human tissues such as skin by using specifically engineered biomaterials or bio-inks to print artificial living tissues. An indigenous state-of-the-art 3D …
• 18 November

  Vigyan Prasar conducts health communication workshop for ICMR scientists

  

  New Delhi, Nov. 18th (India Science Wire): A one-day interactive contact session on health communication was organised by Vigyan Prasar (VP), an autonomous organization of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for the scientists from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on 17 November, at its office in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Various aspects of science communications …