There's great news for movie lovers.   That popcorn slathered in butter at the movie theater may be only mostly bad for you. Snack foods like popcorn and many popular breakfast cereals contain…

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JATROPHA CURCAS: A POTENTIAL PLANT FOR BIO-FUEL Shikha Roy and  Ashwini Kumar Bio-Technology Lab Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302 004 Energy Plantation Demonstration…

SOME POTENTIAL PLANTS FOR BIO-ENERGY     ASHWANI KUMAR AND AMIT KOTIYA Bio-Technology Lab,Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302 004 Energy Plantation Demonstration…

BIODIVERSITY OF INDIAN DESERT AND IT'S VALUE.   Amit Kotia and Ashwani Kumar Biotechnology Lab, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 302004 INDIA   ABSTRACT…

BIODIVERSITY OF INDIAN DESERT AND IT'S VALUE.   Amit Kotia and Ashwani Kumar Biotechnology Lab, Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur – 302004 INDIA   ABSTRACT…

1 STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY OF   JATROPHA CURCAS  A BIO-DIESEL PLANT Ashwani Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center. Bio-Technology…

1 Bioengineering of Crops for Biofuels and Bioenergy Ashwani Kumar Energy Plantation Demonstration Project Center and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan,…

Last week we revealed the Top 10 Schools for Science based on the results of a 3-year study performed by US News&World Report. The study ranked the nation’s best science graduate programs, based…

Jatropha curcas has now being extensively grown in India under the Department of Biotechnology supported micro mission projects with an object to identify, characterize and multiply high yielding…

Finally, for its any-time-after-October-31st launch, NASA has completed building the Ares I-X launch rocket. The Ares I-X is the first test-flight rocket built under NASA's Ares I developement…

After taking a new approach to developing an effective "electronic tongue" that mimics human taste, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of a small, inexpensive, lab-on-a-chip sensor that…

A large number of hydrocarbon yielding plants like Calotropis procera, Euphorbia antisyphilitica have been reported to yield bio-fuel products. Attempts have been made to increase their growth and…

Plant tissue culture and biotechnology are tools available for human growth and development and have an option for being boon or bane. Our books analyse them all in different aspects and I would like…

Biofuel have a great potential but turnig food into biofuel is not correct way instead work on the petroplants, local plants and search for non edible oil plants like Jatropha etcas source of biofuel…

If you have never seen a fireball lighting up the night sky I bet you will appreciate the video below, which was taken by Ivaldo Cervini over Italian skies a few days ago. It is a Perseid meteor,…

“The recent discovery that the hippocampus is able to generate new neurons throughout a human’s lifespan has changed the way we think about the mechanisms of psychiatric disorders and drug addiction,…

James Hollis, Ph.D., is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He has taught  mythology and religion, men's issues, and midlife. His books have been translated into Russian, German,…

Biomass refers to all the matter that can be obtained from photosynthesis. Most vegetable species use solar energy to create sugars from carbon dioxide and water. They store this energy in the form…

"Devil's claw" is a plant that may hold a natural for arthritis, tendonitis and other illnesses that affect millions each year. Years of drought in Africa's Kalahari Desert have pushed the Devil's…