Science And Technology

New Mobile App To Assist Heart Disease Patients in Remote Areas Written on 04/09/2019          Vinod kushwaha New Mobile App To Assist Heart Disease Patients in Remote Areas A group of Australian and Indian scientists has tested and developed a mobile system which promises to help health workers and doctors in villages to identify, track and manage patients with heart-related disorders and high blood pressure in remote places. The program is in the form of a clinical decision support system (CDSS), which is loaded on an android phone. The machine also had a module that can send alerts about high-risk individuals who demand follow-up visits to health workers. Further, it reminds patients when to take their medication and when to visit the doctor. In the study, people from 54 villages in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh and aged 40 were screened to identify people. Health workers, ASHAs, were trained to evaluate the risk of coronary disease us...

3D-printed Transparent Skull “See-Shell” To Advance Brain Research Written on 04/08/2019  Vinod kushwaha 3D-printed Transparent Skull “See-Shell” To Advance Brain Research In order to provide a chance to see the activity of the entire brain surface in real time Scientists at the University of Minnesota have developed a 3D-printed transparent skull implant for mice named as “See-Shell”. This could open up newer avenues of advanced research to understand brain conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The Researchers explains that- Neural computations occurring simultaneously in multiple cerebral cortical areas are crucial for mediating behaviors. Progress has been initiated in understanding how neural activity in specific cortical areas contributes to behavior. However, there’s a lack of tools that allow simultaneous observation and perturbing activity from cortical areas. They engineered See-Shells which is a digitally designed, morphologica...

Newly Discovered Function Of Auxin Is Opposite of What We Know Written on 04/08/2019 Newly Discovered Function Of Auxin Is Opposite of What We Know Increased levels of the hormone auxin to promote cell growth in plant tissues – this is what we all know but that’s not all that Auxin’s function is. In a latest finding Chinese scientists, together with researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria ( IST  Austria), have identified that in special regions of the seedling, increased auxin levels activate another gene expression pathway resulting in growth inhibition. Varied auxin concentrations mediate different developmental outcomes in various plant cells. The main reason behind the increase in cell elongation and growth of the stem is auxin accumulation in stem cells triggers a gene expression. A growth scenario, which cannot be explained in an analogous way, however, is the development of the hook that the plant forms to protect its...