Infosys to award five top Indian scientists Rs.5 mn each

BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies Tuesday said it has instituted a Rs.5-million (Rs.50 lakh) award each for five top Indian scientists in recognition of their outstanding research contributions and achievements.

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Blacklight Power: Unlimited Alternative Power Source or Snake Oil?

It seems too good to be true. A new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste and goes against quantum mechanics theory.

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Flexible Artifical Skin to give Robots Human-like Sense of Touch and Feel

Researchers from University of Tokyo, Japan have developed a flexible artificial skin that could give robots a humanlike sense of touch.

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Japanese scientists increased insulin production in mice by overexpression of transcription factors

A group of Japanese scientists has used gene therapy to deliver three insulin transcription factors, MafA, PDX-1, and NeuroD, to the livers of diabetic mice. As a result, the mice experienced an increase in insulin gene expression and insulin production, raising the possibility that this could eventually be used to treat diabetes. The research appears as the "Paper of the Week" in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology journal.

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