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KANISHK SINHA, 30, of Jasper Motor Vehicle Company, and wife Lipika, 25, who established a company registered in the US five years ago and patented an auto engine with BigPatents India, and a body with the Ford Foundation, have invented a fuel-less battery-less auto engine.
The engine turns on by a chemical reaction that increases its durability as well. Sinha of Bihar says the engine can be used in cars and other vehicles including three wheelers and water pumps.
The Jasper engines are manufactured in Washington as the company does not have a facility in India, but is now looking to Bihar and West Bengal to set up a manufacturing unit in India.
TAPAN THAKUR is on the list of the Hospitalist Journal of the American College of Physicians in the US. Hospitalists are internal medicine physicians who specialise in acute care to patients in hospitals and the list is prepared after evaluations of physicians for their contributions in teaching, quality improvement, research, cost savings, patient safety and leadership.
Thakur is a medical grad from Patna Medical College, Bihar, currently Medical Director of Midsouth Hospitalists and vice president of Medical Staff at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Southaven, Mississippi and is also President of the Memphis Chapter of Society of Hospital Medicine. He graduated in 1991, moved to England in 1993 and in 1998 moved to Memphis.
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RAJU NARISETTI, 42, who was until recently editor of Mint, a New Delhi-based business paper and former deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, has been appointed managing editor, along with Elizabeth Spayd of the Washington Post.
Narisetti and Spayd will oversee news gathering, editing and the day to day production of the Post.
He and Spayd will lead the integration of the Post's print and online newsroooms and share responsibility for both print and online content.
AKSHAY VISHAL, 26, from Andhra Pradesh who worked as a software engineer with Satyam Computers was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Little Rock, Arkansas. According to his father, a BSNL employee in Begumpet, Lakshmana Murthy, Vishal was shot in the legs and sustained multiple injuries in the attack by suspected African American men. He was operated upon in hospital, but profuse bleeding led to kidney failure and he finally succumbed to his injuries.
Vishal did his engineering from Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology in Hyderabad and went to the US in 2005. He did his MS in America and joined Satyam Computers, working for Falcon Jet Airways, a client of
Satyam.
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JHUMPA LAHIRI has been ranked No. 8 on the list of the 'Thinking Man's Sex Symbols' by popular website Daily Beast run by Tina Brown, former editor of 'Vanity Fair' and 'The New Yorker'. The website topped the list with Serbian tennis champ Ana Ivanovic.
According to a columnist the list includes people they believe would be great to talk with, laugh with and revel in success with, and Lahiri is hot because she is smart and beautiful.
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KAJAL MALLICK, a scientist at the University of Warwick is developing automotive technology to help produce synthetic bones for the benefit of patients undergoing bone implants.
The technique involves extrusion of implant material through a mould to produce a three-dimensional honeycomb texture with uniform pores, that can then be sculpted by a surgeon to precisely match defective bone, which after implant allows the bone cells to reform.
Mallick said he and post-graduate researcher James Meredith at the University's Manufacturing Group worked with a Japanese company that manufactures catalytic converters and used their facility to produce the samples that they tested and used calcium phosphates to improve both the strength and porosity of the implants.
The research means the synthetic bone could be used in spinal surgery or revision hip and knee operations.
Meredith said if they find an industrial partner to market their findings the procedure will enable treatment of conditions that have only been possible using metal replacement parts or foam like bone substitutes.
DEBASHIS GHOSH, a senior research scientist at the
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, has reached a milestone by determining the last structure of an enzyme used by the human body to create
oestrogen, and possibly the prevention of the most common type of breast cancer.
His research will enable the development of drugs to target oestrogen dependent tumours in breast cancer.
Ghosh who also holds a joint faculty appointment at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute said scientists have been trying for 35 years to crystallise membrane bound enzyme, and his team are the first to
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