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VOLUME
48 NUMBER 11 November 2011
COVER STORY
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100 Years of ICMR! Jagdeep Saxena & V.K. Srivastava
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FEATURE ARTICLES Chromosomes, Cancer and Cure
Prasanta K. Dash & Rhitu Rai
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Bright Future for Olive Ridley Turtles? Divya Karnad
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Mysterious Migration |
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Mounting Threat of Space Debris |
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Nurturing
Wetlands
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Lantana—A Menace or
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SHORT FEATURES Ug99—Threat to Agriculture Pallabi Roy, Snigdha Majumder & Siraj Datta Fun With Numbers Butterfly Flies Away Promise of Guar meal S. Srivastava, Anees K. & R. Ramani |
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REFLECTIONS Will Steve Rest in
Peace?
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DEPARTMENTS
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REACTIONS
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EDITORIAL
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SPECTRUM
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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
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100 Years of ICMR!
Jagdeep Saxena & V.K. Srivastava
The
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),
Can the dreaded cancer be
controlled? A recent discovery could provide an approach to successfully tackle
cancer.
Ug99—Threat to
Agriculture
Ug99 is a new virulent strain of old crop disease “Black Stem Rust” that has evolved to overcome the resistance prevalent in wheat varieties during the Green Revolution of the 1960s.
Fun With Numbers
MANY people find numbers quite boring. But for others playing with numbers is a favourite past-time. And so, for those who find numbers boring, here are a few numbers that may sound interesting.
Butterfly Flies Away
Samiya Fatima
Bright Future for Olive Ridley Turtles?
The future of the olive ridley turtles would be bright only if lights in the coastal areas were to be dimmed by a shade. Bright lights in and around coastal areas are leading these turtles to their death.
Mysterious
Migration
P. S. Bankar & S. D. Patil
Scientists are still trying to unravel the mysteries of bird migration.
But increasing encroachment on habitats and man-made structures are making
migratory birds lose their track.
Promise of Guar meal
S. Srivastava, Anees K. and R. Ramani
Guar, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (Family Fabaceae), is a drought-tolerant summer annual legume
mainly grown in the Northwestern part of the country.
Mounting Threat of Space
Debris
Radhakrishna Rao
Junk in outer space is threatening space missions
like never before. And scientists are coming up with really innovative
solutions to the mess created up there.
R. N. Mandal
Seasonal wetlands need to be nurtured for the wealth of high quality
nutrients they offer and also as future sources of freshwater.
Lantana—A Menace or Friend?
Reviled as a nuisance and a menace worldwide, Lantana can surprisingly be of great help to humans and animals.