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Dr. Sankarprasad Bhuniya, ASE, Coimbatore Gives Invited Talk on Chemoselective Fluorescent Probe for Tracking of Small Molecule and Chemotherapeutic in Living Cells

Dr. Sankarprasad Bhuniya currently serves as a research professor at Amrita Center for Industrial Research & Innovation and Amrita Center for Excellence in Advanced Materials and Green Technologies. He is also a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore. During his visit to Amrita School of Biotechnology on December 9, 2016, he delivered an excellent, informative talk on Chemoselect

Amrita Scientists Observed Male Fish on Nano Diet of ZnO Turn Away from Females

While checking the toxicity potential of nano zinc oxide (ZnO) on teleost fish model, Japanese medaka (Oryziaslatipes), Dr. Bindhu Paul, Assistant Professor, Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Kochi and team, observed that porous nano zinc oxide particles abolished the male-specific sexual and terrestrial behavioral patterns leading to mating incompetence. The major male-specific androgen hormone was also reduced in r

Amrita Researchers Discovered New Marker for Stratification of Leukemia in Children

Researchers at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, utilized a small amount of cerebrospinal fluid and by using a specially developed sensitive proteomics technique, were able to detect a specific protein marker that appears to express itself in this fluid to indicate the presence of CNS Leukemia. Instead of treating all children of suspected CNS Leukemia, this allows to provide treatm

Amrita Centre for Nanosciences Scientists Developed Dual Drugs for Drug Resistant Leukemia

Scientists at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, developed a polymer protein, or protein-protein core-shell nano particle system, that takes one drug on the nano-shell and another one in the nano-core. This is the first cancer-nanomedicine patent for dual-drug core-shell technology issued to Indian researchers. This edible work at the center had proved that when two drugs can be s

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Invests in a Solid State Battery Future

Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, has invested in a state of the art 3 cluster vacuum deposition tool for the research and development of solid state Li ion batteries. Currently there are no solid state Li ion batteries produced in India and research in this area is also new in India. Dr. Dhamodaran, Assistant Professor, ACNS, Kochi, who is heading this project, came to the cente

Amrita Nano Centre Researchers Use Fluorescent Bacteria in Fruit Flies to Test for Anti-microbial Drugs

For the first time fruit flies were infected with green fluorescent protein tagged bacteria at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine(ACNSMM), Kochi, in an exciting work that allows for rapid testing of antimicrobial drug efficacy. When the drug works and the bacteria die, the florescence turns off. Dr. Raja Biswas, Associate Professor, ACNSMM, Kochi, and Dr. Jayakumar R., Professor, ACNSMM, Kochi, hope to utilize this researc

Amrita Nano Centre Scientists Develop Ground Breaking Simulation of Bone Marrow

Scientists at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, have developed a remarkable simulation of bone marrow, using synthetic biocompatible polymeric materials. They proved that leukemic cells integrated into this synthetic bone marrow avoided drug treatment in much the same way that they do in a real bone marrow. Dr. Krishnakumar Menon, Associate Professor, ACNS, Kochi, and Dr. Ullas Mony

Amrita Develops a Unique Scalable Nano Cloth and Nano Thread for Medical Use

Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham at Kochi, developed the first fully scalable process for making nano cloth and nano threads at rates up to several meters per minute. The process was patent filed (Indian patent 3131/CHE/2014 and US patent No. 14/751,069) and published in the prestigious Nano Letters Journal (Nano Lett. 2015 Aug 12;15(8):5420-6. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01815, J. Joseph

Play with me – Measuring a child's engagement in a social interaction

A biotinylated piperazine-rhodol derivative: a {'}turn-on{'} probe for nitroreductase triggered hypoxia imaging

Devanagari character recognition in the wild’

A novel approach to classification of facial expressions from 3D-mesh datasets using modified {PCA}