British Telecom (BT) will partner with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), one of India’s leading research institutions, to launch a new collaborative research center in Bangalore. The new BT India Research Center (BTIRC) will join BT’s network of collaborative research facilities around the globe, including those in Northern Ireland,...
Park Systems Inaugurates Nanoscience Lab in India
Santa Clara, CA headquartered Park Systems, manufacturer of atomic force microscopy (AFM) systems, announced the opening of the Park Nanoscience Lab at the Center for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) in India's prestigious Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore. "Increasingly, AFM is being selected for Nanotechnology research over other metrology techniques...
India Sets Up the 5G India 2020 Forum
The Government of India set up a high-level 5G India 2020 Forum to roll out 5G in India by 2020. The committee will have on board three secretaries, one each from the Department of Telecommunications, IT and Electronics, and Science and Technology Ministries. Other members of the forum will include...
Pandorum Technologies India Creates 3-D Mini-Livers
Pandorum Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a Bangalore-based biotechnology startup working on tissue engineering, announced that it had developed artificial tissue that performs the functions of the human liver. These 3-D printed living tissues enable affordable medical research with reduced animal and human trials, and will eventually lead to full scale transplantable...
Indian Institute of Science Installs Cray Petaflop Supercomputer
The Supercomputing Education and Research Center at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, India has acquired a new Cray XC40 supercomputer with Intel Xeon processors, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerators. Christened "SahasraT" this supercomputer has more than 1.4 petaflops of computing performance, and is...
Indian Institute of Science Cultures Cardiac Cells from Stem Cells
Speaking on Stem Cell Awareness Day, lead researcher, Polani B. Seshagiri said that researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, have cultivated cardiac cells from stem cells, and that the cardiac cells so developed exhibited properties and functions identical to the original cardiac cell. Nazeer Ahmed, deputy drug controller...