The shooting prompted a complete lockdown of the campus and deployment of hundreds of police officers as well as federal agents.
The research, which will focus only on plants, has potential to lead to better insights into how stem cells communicate with each other both before and after they are transformed into specialised cells that lead to the development of different plant organs, according to Reddy, principal investigator of the four-year grant.
'My Nani passed away in January 2016 and the house belonged to her and my Nana.' 'After they passed away, the family decided to sell the house.' 'My mother's immediate response was that we have to make a film in this house before it was sold.'
Scientists have identified a gene that allows rice plants to survive floods; a development that could help poor farmers especially in India who are having a tough time braving floods.
According to a study by a team at the University of Southern California, fasting for as little as 48 hours protects healthy cells against chemotherapy. Test tube experiments have confirmed that normal human cells were two to five times more resistant than cancer cells to chemotherapy after a short period of starvation.
Patil will help shape policies and practices to help the US remain a leader in technology and innovation.
A new study has found that women have an evolutionary gene which makes them born shopaholics.
Hazem el-Beblawi, a liberal economist and Egypt's former finance minister, was on Tuesday appointed as the country's new prime minister in a transitional government as the interim president unveiled a roadmap for fresh polls by early next year to end the raging political crisis.
The glaciers provide a lifeline for billions of people by feeding the major rivers in the region, according to the United Nations Environment Programme.
Simply put, say researchers in a study widely cited in the international news media, obesity can spread through social interaction, much like flu
Cyber criminals are increasingly using psychological games and other tactics scams that are spread through junk email, reveals a study by security solutions provider McAfee.
Gandhi, 47, begins his nearly two-week trip to the US with an address at the University of California, Berkeley, tomorrow on contemporary India and the path forward for the world's largest democracy.
The actor took to Twitter to warn the Congress vice president "to not bullshit people on dynasty" and added that one has to earn people's respect through hard work.
'The prime minister's announcement of a nation-wide shutdown was eloquent, but should have been more clearly phrased to avoid police overreach.' 'Migrant labour should have been allowed adequate notice and transport options to get home,' notes Rahul Jacob.
While there were no surprises on policy issues from either side, there were far less interruptions and tense moments between Pence, 61, who comes from Indiana and his Democrat challenger Harris, 55, who is from California.
Congressman Ami Bera, the only Indian-American lawmaker in the current Congress, has been invited by President Barack Obama to travel with him to India on Air Force One.
Amidst an outpour of grief, Tarishi Jain, the 19-year-old Indian girl who was killed along with 19 others in the Dhaka terror attack, was cremated in Gurgaon on Monday.
In an effort to brand India as an emerging global power, Indian companies are organising a series of activities in the US to mark the 60th anniversary of Independence.
A new study says the big social networking sites are splitting up along familiar lines.
Combining a multitude of techniques, the now-famous brand of 'Iyengar Yoga' has helped many across the globe get over serious illnesses.
Shi now says that giving the anti-microbial as a one-off treatment, or at regular intervals, might help less harmful bacteria to colonise the spot vacated by S.mutans, thus making it more difficult for the bug to regain a toehold.
The trio used the same principles of evolution -- genetic change and selection -- to develop proteins used in a range of fields.
'Unfortunately, during this pandemic, everybody started saying that well, these are desperate times and desperate times need desperate solutions.' 'Purely out of fear, anxiety, panic, this knowledge that people started acquiring from WhatsApp University and social media, it pushed science completely to the backseat.'
It is premature to make the assumption that Biden's policy toward China will not be a break with Trump, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Indian businesses are changing to deliver better value to customers and maintain their position in a fiercely competitive scenario using information technology, according to a survey conducted by University of California in association with IIT, Bomb
Here's a lowdown on what your favourite Hollywood stars have been up to.
Physiology student Maya Charuni Sarihan from Scottsdale, Arizona, was crowned the 22nd Miss India America 2014 in Los Angeles.
According to the World Health Organisation, 10 candidate vaccines for COVID-19 are in the clinical evaluation and 126 are in the pre-clinical stage.
He is the first MD Anderson scientist to receive the world's most preeminent award for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine.
Whenever you think of Microsoft, the only name that crosses one's mind is Bill Gates. But the tech behemoth was co-founded in 1975 by Gates and Paul Allen.
Trump nominated Thapar for the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
The US appears to be on track to see over 160 million votes cast in the 2020 presidential election, a turnout rate of about 67 per cent, which is higher than what the country has witnessed in more than a century, as President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden campaigned through the final day to get more voters to the polling booths.
US President Barack Obama has nominated Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board, describing her as one of America's "foremost economists and policy makers".
Yellen is currently Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
According to a study, the more time you spend on social media, the more motivated you are to lose weight.
Since cartilage loss cannot be reversed, it is important for people at risk of osteoarthritis or with early signs of the disease to slow the degeneration of cartilage.
'I agree Hinduism is misrepresented and there is a need to correct the image. But the question is how to go about it?' asks Harvard Professor Michael Witzel.
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