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Steps To Improve Quality Of Plant-Based Drugs

...has decided to start a registration of farmers who cultivate medicinal plants. The registration system was not being done to start policing farmers but only to streamline the demand and supply position. The board is also proposing a buyback arrangement for cultivators as they face an uncertain market. For an...

GlaxoSmithKline To Cultivate Non-Smoking Environment

..., its anti-smoking drug. Glaxo is aiding companies cultivate a non-smoking environment as part of its policy, along with providing teams to help in the transition. // Some of the corporate, which have negotiated for this 'no-smoking' environment, are Housing Development Finance Corporation, the Godrej group,...

DNA Underwent Changes Due To Culture

...endency of human beings to live in settlements and cultivate fields can also be traced // to this natural selection process. One way to look for genes that have recently been changed by natural selection is to study mutations called single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) - single-letter differences in the g...

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Favours Herbal Farming

...al plants.While his predecessor Rabri Devi used to cultivate potato, tomato and green vegetables// at their official residence, he wants to develop the place as a resource centre for herbal farming. Nitish Kumar comes from a family with ayurveda and herbal background. His father was a leading ayurvedic pract...

Cancer Patient to Appeal to SC, Demanding Right to Use Marijuana

...rit. 'There is no fundamental right to distribute, cultivate or possess marijuana,' said Mark Quinlivan, Assistant U.S. Attorney, the government's lead medical marijuana attorney, wrote to the appeals court. The use of medical marijuana following a doctor’s recommendation was first approved in California, in...

Fuel demand to be met by Bio-diesel

...a' seeds at their laboratories and are planning to cultivate more of the seeds to reach a target production of 10,000 litres of bio-diesel per annum within the next two years. Kumar said he has been doing research on bio-diesel since 2000 and his primary motive was not limited to helping his students alone. ...

Take it if you can - Tough Times in Life Churn out Greenhorns

...dealing with stress/negative life events- may help cultivate a positive mind-set within the child or adolescent which will stay with them throughout life. Kim said: "Parents are role-models for their children, and show the children how to cope with stress- if the parents are matter-of-fact about negative occur...

Major Hurdle towards Development of Bird Flu Vaccine in India.

...hnology, none of them has the required facility to cultivate the virus. According to scientists the live virus, which is presently in their possession, cannot be transferred to a lab below BSL 3 status because the virus may slip into and mix with an open environment thereby creating havoc. Lab chief H K Pr...

Scientists Produce Neurons from Human Skin

...uron precursor cells, which they then proceeded to cultivate in vitro. Skin itself does not contain neurons, which are hosted in the spinal cord, but contains only their extensions, called "axons." The researchers’ challenge was thus to produce neurons from undifferentiated cells rather than multiply neurons f...

Bacterium Could Treat PCBs Without the Need for Dredging

...il now. "For the first time we have been able to cultivate in defined media naturally occurring bacteria that...the PCB-dechlorinating bacteria and learned how to cultivate them in the laboratory, we can begin to understand the processes that they use to dechlorinate PCBs ...

Exports Of Herbal & Dietary Products Has Huge Potential

...USH industry but also that the farmers are able to cultivate medicinal plants as an alternative crop. The two-day workshop has been organized by the National Medicinal Plants Board in collaboration with Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT). Besides Mrs. Anita Das, Secretary in Dep...

Diet for Autism

...s. A nurturing ambience, at home and outside, will cultivate the positive traits of these special people and help them to lead more fulfilling lives....

"Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies

... refugees to find employment outside the camps, to cultivate land or graze livestock, leaving the refugee population almost entirely dependent on humanitarian aid, according to the agency....

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