The race to make a Covid-19 vaccine in India Companies in India are using diverse technologies to develop a coronavirus vaccine, but even as they race against time, the road to an efficacious solution is neither straight nor short The timeline is historically short: Create in 18 to 24 months what you usually get five […]

From agri to Covid operations: A drone tech start-up changes gears General Aeronautics is now using drones to spray disinfectants over large areas of Bengaluru in quick time In June 2018, a Bengaluru-based drone tech start-up had given a demonstration in Dakshina Kannada district on the use of drones for spraying copper sulphate solution to […]

Meet the four drone developers who are helping BBMP sanitise Bengaluru Six hexacopter drones have been deployed; each can cover an area of about 6 m/s, can carry 15 litres of disinfectant While the whole city has come to a standstill following the lockdown to contain the spread of the pandemic, a team of four […]

Top cops say the devices are helping them identify curfew violators and get them to mend their ways “The drones are like a third eye in the sky and give us a quick grasp of what’s happening on the ground. We don’t have to depend on a third party,” city police commissioner Bhaskar Rao told […]

IISc comes up with an affordable two-step method to scale up RT-PCR testing The RT-PCR test amplifies the virus’ genetic material (RNA) from throat swabs of the patients, converts it to DNA, amplifies it and checks it for designated markers to see whether it is SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19. shanmukha Innovations, a start-up from the […]

The RT-PCR test amplifies the virus’ genetic material (RNA) from throat swabs of the patients, converts it to DNA, amplifies it and checks it for designated markers to see whether it is the Sars-Cov-2 virus, which causes Covid-19. A start-up from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is in the process of validating a new two-step […]

Tech Rescue A clutch of start-ups is offering solutions to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic …In Anjarakandy Medical College at Kannur in north Kerala, Nightingale-19 is set to deliver food and water to patients in Covid isolation wards. Painted in red and white, Nightingale is a robot designed by students of Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, Chemperi, […]

With vaccines of some firms already in animal trial phase, developers say that if all goes well, India could have a vaccine by next year Not just bigwigs like Zydus and Serum but even mid-rung indigenous players across the country have joined the race for a coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine. The move comes at a time […]

The sudden lockdown imposed in the wake of the Covid-19 posed both a challenge and opportunity for India’s healthcare startups. Restricted access to diagnostic centres meant more patients embraced online consults and solutions. But limited imports meant broken supply chains that led to prices of raw materials in the domestic market to skyrocket BloombergQuint spoke […]

STEM Cell at The Society for Innovation and Development (SID) in IISc incubates startups that have deep science and technology at the core. STEM Cell at The Society for Innovation and Development (SID) in IISc incubates startups that have deep science and technology at the core. CS Murali, chairman of the Entrepreneurship Cell, SID, IISc, […]