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Toothpaste ingredient could fight malaria, according to ‘robot scientist’

January 19, 2018 Loknath DasAccording, Could, Fight, ingredient, malaria, scientist’, to, toothpaste, ‘robot

Research carried out in part by an artificially-intelligent (AI)’robot scientist’ has found that a common ingredient of toothpaste could be developed to fight drug-resistant strains of malaria. In a study in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists from Britain’s Cambridge University who used the AI robot to conduct high-throughput screening said the ingredient, triclosan, showed the potential to interrupt malaria infections at two critical stages – in the liver and the blood. Malaria kills around half a million people every year, the vast majority of them children in the poorest parts…

Indian assistant prof and solar energy expert selected as ‘young scientist’ to address BRICS meeting in China

July 10, 2017 Loknath Dasaddress, and, As, Assistant, BRICS, China, energy, expert, In, Indian, Meeting, prof, scientist’, selected, solar, to, Young

Hyderabad An assistant professor of a city-based University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been selected as young scientist to participate in the second BRICS meeting, scheduled from July 11-15, at Hangzhou in China. Murali Banavoth, who recently joined as an assistant professor at School of Chemistry in UoH, will be addressing on the theme titled Solar Energy in the BRICS meeting, a release from the University said today. After obtaining his Ph D, from the Indian Institute of Science, Banavoth moved to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as post-doctoral…