The India-U.S. Defense Acceleration Ecosystem (INDUS-X) was launched in June 2023 by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Indian Ministry of Defense (MoD). Guided by a bilateral collaboration agenda, INDUS-X aims to build an innovation bridge between the two countries' defense sectors. It facilitates partnerships between defense companies, incubators,...
India and US scientists apply carbon nanofiber patch to resusticate "dead" heart muscle
Scientists at Brown University in collaboration with Dr. Bikramjit Basu at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (my alma mater), built a scaffold-looking structure consisting of carbon nanofibers and a government-approved polymer to determine if cardiac muscle lost in a heart attack could be regenerated. Tests showed the synthetic nanopatch...