Indian biotech major Biocon Ltd on Monday said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had audited its aseptic drug product facility here and issued an establishment inspection report on its current good manufacturing practice.


US regulator audits Biocon drug facility in Bengaluru


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Treated excrement from chickens, turkeys and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace coal as a renewable energy source, says a study.


Chicken poop could replace coal in electricity generation


The world could see an increase in the number of strong earthquakes in 2018 and the next few years due to periodic slowing of the Earth's rotation, scientists have warned.


Scientists predict bigger earthquakes in 2018 (Lead, correcting headline)


Waste coffee grounds will be used to help power some of London's buses from Monday, according to transport authorities.


London buses to be powered by coffee


Researchers have developed a new and cost-effective catalyst to recycle two of the main causes behind climate change -- carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4).


New catalyst developed to recycle CO2, methane


Asserting that the relationship between the space agencies of India and Japan has had a "visible change", the Indian Space Research Organisation chief on Friday said the countries are working towards a joint lunar mission soon.


Soon, India-Japan to jointly explore the moon


Multi Drug Resistant organisms that cause deadly infections are spreading resulting in community-acquired infections, reveals a new study by city's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SRGH).


'Drug-resistant organisms causing spike in infectious diseases'


Researchers have identified a gene that can help fend off a new devastating strain of stem rust, a fungal disease that is now "at the door of the Punjab region", the breadbasket of Asia.


Researchers find gene that may prevent wheat epidemic in India


In a first, US scientists have found a genetic mutation that has the potential to protect humans against diabetes as well as help us live 10 years longer and happier.


Rare Amish gene may hold secret to long, healthy life


NASA scientists have developed a tool to forecast which cities are vulnerbale to flooding due to melting of ice in a warming climate.


New NASA tool predicts which cities face floods due to ice melt


Five eminent professors and a director were selected for the Infosys Prize 2017, said the software major's Science Foundation on Wednesday.


Five professors among Infosys Prize winners


Proposals to counter the effects of global warming by imitating volcanic eruptions could lead to natural disasters in different parts of the world, warn scientists.


Cooling Earth artificially could be disastrous, warn scientists


Driven by China's greater use of coal, global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are projected to rise again in 2017 after a three year hiatus.


CO2 emissions rising again after three-year hiatus


The world's longest dinosaur tracks discovered in the French village of Plagne were left 150 million years ago by a dinosaur that was at least 35 metres long and weighing no less than 35 tonnes, new research has found.


35-metre sauropod created world's longest dinosaur trackway


A simple colour-changing test to detect fluoride in drinking water could help prevent skeletal fluorosis, the crippling bone disease, in developing countries like India, says a study.


Simple water test could reduce bone disease in India


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday visited the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), a premier research organisation dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger through rice science at Los Banos in the Philippines.


Modi visits rice research centre in Philippines


A compound commonly used in hair bleach, hydrogen peroxide, made the eventual emergence of life on Earth possible, claims a study.


Hair bleach chemical behind life on Earth: Study


Women vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) can be effectively protected from cervical cancer with merely three pap test in their lifetime, suggests a new research.


HPV vaccine could reduce Pap tests in a lifetime


Women who are extremely underweight and obese are likely to be at an increased risk of developing common mood disorders like depression and anxiety, as a result of low feel good neuroactive steroid, finds a study.


Why obesity, underweight condition may up depression in women


Dinosaurs might not have gone extinct had the the asteroid that hit Earth some 66 million years ago and triggered the mass extinction of the giant animals struck somewhere else instead of crashing into the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, says a study.


Dinosaurs could have survived had asteroid struck elsewhere: Study


Researchers have discovered nearly 500 finger and toe bones belonging to primates -- some half the size of a mouse -- that lived about 45 million years ago in what is now China, offering evidence that early human ancestors came from Asia.

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