S. Mitra,† Binoj Nair,‡ T. Pradeep,*,‡,⊥ P. S. Goyal,§ and R. Mukhopadhyay*,†,| Solid State Physics DiVision, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India, Department of Chemistry and Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 600 036, India, and Inter-UniVersity Consortium for DAE facilities, BARC, Mumbai 400 085, India ReceiVed: Dece...

DOI: 10.4103/0975-9476.96515 Sir, We at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, TNMC and BYL Nair Ch. Hospital have recently conducted a Continued Medical Education programme in “Research Methodology for Ayurvedic faculty members” (supported by Rashtriya Ayurved Vidyapeeth [RAV], Department of AYUSH). This programme was attended by 30 participants from different states of the country. As a fac...

Monitoring mortality trends in low-resource settings Christina Pagel, Audrey Prost, Nirmala Nair, Prasanta Tripathy, Anthony Costello & Martin Utley a Clinical Operational Research Unit, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, England. b Centre for International Health and Development, University College London, London, England. c Ekjut, Chakradharpur, Jharkhand, India. Corre...

G. Balakrish Nair es Director del Laboratory Sciences Division, en el International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)-Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Se graduó de Madras University en 1975, realizó una maestría en Biología Marina en 1977 en Annamalai University alcanzando el grado de PhD en 1982. Entonces se integró al Department of Micr...

*Dept. of Medicine, TN Medical College & BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai 400 008. L was a Dutch storekeeper and part-time janitor in Delft. he was little educated, but his business and his job kept him comfortably off and he lived only for his hobby, grinding of lenses. He made lens after lens and was determined to make as perfect a lens as possible. These lenses were small, scarcely about 3-4 mm...

A t the age of 37, David Baltimore accomplished what many researchers dream of but few achieve: reversing an entrenched dogma, eventually leading to a new view of life. In the early 1970s, Baltimore, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology, discovered reverse transcriptase—an enzyme found in some tumor viruses whose genet...

Simon R. Huisman,1,* Rajesh V. Nair,1 Léon A. Woldering,1 Merel D. Leistikow,1,2 Allard P. Mosk,1 and Willem L. Vos1 1Complex Photonic Systems (COPS), MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands 2Center for Nanophotonics, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Science Park 113, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Rec...