Integrated waste management can reduce pollution caused by open dumping, says IIT Bombay study

Managing the tons of municipal waste we generate is a challenge that municipal bodies are trying to crack. A study by scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) has attempted to solve this. The researchers compared various waste management methods that are available today and suggest that combining these options, instead of dumping the waste in the open, can reduce the impact on our environment.

Adding chaos helps finding better solutions to multi-reservoir irrigation systems, says an IIT Bombay Study

IITB study predicts Indian offshore wind farms will benefit from rise in sea temperatures

What if you could fly from Mumbai to New York in just 2.5 hours? If manned hypersonic flights were a reality, you wouldn’t have to spend about 18 long hours in a cramped aeroplane! Research works led by Prof. Shripad P. Mahulikar from the Aerospace Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) are contributing to setting up a foundation to make hypersonic aeroplane design a reality. The researchers have proposed changes to the aircraft geometry to address the problem of heating of the body at the extremely high speed.

Study from IIT Bombay finds that airborne pollutants affect the water available for  agriculture.

The persistence of fog over urban areas is suppressed due to increase in land surface  temperature, reveals study

The variability of monsoon rains due to climate change affects Marathwada and Vidarbha regions the most, says a district level study

Researchers suggest a method for comparing battery systems as power backup in India

Researchers from IIT Bombay use simulations to predict future shoreline changes in Paradip Port of Odisha, India.

Urbanisation and agricultural intensification alter rainwater draining and soil movement, saysa study from IIT Bombay

Researchers from IIT Bombay find evidence of high potential geothermal systems existing on the west coast of Maharashtra

Study explores how farmers spend on pesticides in cotton farms based on land size, irrigation and tenancy.

Study details how floating plastic debris can affect physical processes in the oceans

Today cancer has been identified as one of the deadliest diseases that mankind is combating with. This is certainly curable and there exists a variety of treatment owing to the diversity and intensity of the problem.However, most of these treatments yield fruitful results only when the patients are treated at a rather early stage. This leaves with a major challenge of cancer detection which detection, there are several methods and protocols. Some of these include tumor marker method, cell morphology method and cellimaging.

Graphene and its derivatives, graphene oxide (GO), reduced graphene oxide(RGO), and graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have drawn huge attention of researchers worldwide due to their amazing physicochemical properties for biomedical applications.GO and RGO have been used as a drug-carrier and photothermal agents for cancer therapy whereas GQDs have been employed for bioimaging and sensing applications.Conventional cancer therapeutic techniques like chemotherapy cause side effects also, therefore, photothermal therapy for cancer has been explored extensively.

With a particle size of 1 micro meter and grnome size of more than 2 Mbp, which is bigger than many bacteria, giant viruses are changing the way we think about viruses and concept of obligate parasitism.Not too long ago, scientific community believed that viruses cannot be much bigger than 200 nm and in the process missed them completely until an accidental discovery of a giant virus (microbe mimicking virus or mimivirus) in 2003. The rest is history.If one looks at their enigmatic genetic makeup, their abundance and prevalence, it appears

Sickle cell disease is an
inherited blood disorder that affects the red
blood cells (RBCs). A mutation alters the
hemoglobin present inside the RBCs. As a result, normally biconcave and deformable RBCs become stiff and sickle-shaped leading to blockage of blood vessels, recurrent pain, and other related complications. Since there is no cure at the moment, patients have to learn different techniques to manage the disease. Detecting sickle cell disease at an early stage, ideally at birth, helps in better management and control.

With the recent thrust in the Internet-of-Things and wearable electronics, it is expected that all the conventional medical instruments would be highly unobtrusive as well as connected to the internet in near future. However, this imposes several fundamental challenges in their design like low-power consumption, low-noise design, EMI immunity, motion artifact tolerance, low radiation bio-signal communication.

The present scenario in the field of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is grim with no treatments available to halt the progression of the disease. Our group is rigorously working on the development of therapeutics against PD. Using an interdisciplinary approach we have designed smart biomaterials (hydrogels) using small peptides (fragments of proteins) self-assembled into nano-fibres.

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurological disorder prevalent mostly in elderly people. This is characterised by progressive loss of brain cells/neurons in specific regions (substantia nigra) of the brain resulting in gradual decline in the sufferer’s motor skills. Mutations in protein, α-synuclein is associated with rare early onset familial forms of PD. The presence of abnormal clumps (aggregates) of the same protein in the neurons surviving in affected regions of PD patients’ brains indicate the key role of α-synuclein in the pathogenesis of PD.