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Friday, April 26, 2024
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Kashmir Science

Identifying and profiling the scientists from Jammu and Kashmir and detailing the struggles they put in to make doing science their career, this section highlights their contributions to the world knowledge pool across diverse spheres of science. It also includes reportage about innovation and incubation and profiles of various innovators.

‘Predicting Earthquake Is A Myth’

Kashmir-born young scientist, Dr Jawad Fayaz, who did his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, USA and worked as a postdoctoral research scientist...

‘We Go For Valve Replacements without Chest Surgery, Something We Could Not Dream About...

Renowned intervention cardiologist Dr Fayaz Shawl, who did the first angioplasty in the US's Military Health System (MHS), and later devised the ‘Shawl Technique’ visited...

‘Our Molecule As A Potential Drug Showed Promising Results In Preventing Prostate Cancer’

Srinagar-born scientist, Dr Hanief Shahjee, provides insights into his research journey in chemistry, encompassing his PhD in bio-sciences and Post Doc in molecular biology...

Improving Solar Cell

At almost every level, Kausar A Khawaja shifted his educational institutions and now he is pursuing his PhD at USA’s Arizona University. Mujtaba Hussain...

‘Obesity Is One of The Burning Issues In Today’s World

Born in Kashmir, young post-doctoral scientist, Dr Jameel Lone flew to South Korea for his PhD and is currently busy in his postdoc in...

Data Matters

A young Kashmir data scientist currently serving a British crypto-currency platform said the AI will make lives easier but will raise the bar for...

AI-Enabled Searches

Artificial intelligence is now hugely in use in search engines. Google and Microsoft are outwitting each other in the use of AI to enhance...

‘Artificial Intelligence is Another Revolution’

From a state-run secondary school in Srinagar to IBM’s Watson Lab and now the Director of Engineering (AI) at LinkedIn, Dr Faisal Farooq has...

‘In Israel, I Discovered Something Which Was Not Known In Biology For A Long...

Plant physiologist, Dr Autar Mattoo struggled a lot before he landed in the US Department of Agriculture-run Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory at Beltsville, Maryland. In the...

‘The Biggest Challenge Is To Find Out How 98% of DNA Regulates The Rest...

A young geneticist, Dr Rais A Gania was surprised to see his takeaways from his PhD were part of the text well before he...

Inventing for Have-Nots’

At NIT in Srinagar is a civil engineering professor who is passionate about machines. In the last few years, he has devised a basket...

‘We Are Trying to Understand the Pathogen Strategy’

After spending his entire research career at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, Dr M Ayub Qadri has joined IUST as Dean of...

‘Some Haakh Varieties Have High Anticancer Potential against Prostate and Lung Cancer Cells’

A junior scientist at SKUAST-K, Dr Khalid Zaffar Masoodi is an award-winning biotechnologist who has been working on cancer biology. Founder of Kashmir’s first...

‘Failure In Detecting Early Is The Reason Behind High Mortality Rates In Cancer’.

After spending a lot of time trying to locate the particular molecules that play a role in diverse cancers, Dr Zahida Qamri changed her career path...

A Potato Culture

Working in SKUAST-K’s potato laboratory, a scholar was desperate for the MS media, a key ingredient for tissue culture but the lab lacked funds....