Scientific research should work towards improving people's lives: Naidu

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today said scientists should undertake research projects that can help improve the lives of people.

Scientific research should go to the root of any problem and work towards betterment of the lives of the people, he said in his address at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) here.

Referring to the institute's multi-disciplinary project related to cancer cells and therapeutic strategies, Naidu said, "This project is the need of the hour as so many people die of cancer. Early detection and isolation of the cell will be useful in containing the disease."
Naidu said he was happy to know that SINP was "now setting up a facility for Research in Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (FRENA) which will unravel some more mysteries of the universe."