SCIENCE
AstraZeneca's Fasenra gets approval from Drugs Controller General of India for asthma treatment
Fasenra is not an inhaler or a steroid and is administered once in eight weeks under the skin via injection as maintenance therapy. It is an add-on maintenance treatment for patients with severe eosinophilic asthma. It is designed to target cells in the body called eosinophils, which are a key cause of the eosinophilic subtype of asthma.
Samples of United Kingdom positive cases to undergo genome sequencing study
The genome sequencing study would determine if the COVID patients are carrying the existing strain of SARS-CoV-2 or the mutant strain which was discovered in the UK's population. If the samples indicate the presence of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the patient will continue to remain in a separate isolation unit while necessary treatment as per the existing protocol will be given, the health ministry stated.
Brain cell that can help track distance discovered
The existence of GPS-like brain cells, which can store maps of the places we've been, like our kitchen or holiday destination, was already widely known, but this discovery shows there is also a type of brain cell sensitive to the distance and direction of objects that can store their locations on these maps.
Pandemic put no limit to space exploration in 2020
If one thing triumphed in 2020 despite all the challenges, it was science. While scientists from around the world worked at a break-neck speed to find a solution to beating Covid-19, the pandemic could not slow down the human pursuit to explore space objects.
2020: A defining year for Indian space sector
Even though the year 2020 would be known as Covid-19 year, it could also be termed as the defining year for the Indian space sector to put it in a different orbit with the private sector as a co-traveller of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Watch Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at Bengaluru planetarium
As the fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is the largest in the solar system, as a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth of the Sun.
Australia to fund 'ecological arks' to save Great Barrier Reef
According to the report from News Corp Australia on Sunday, the government will spend A$5.5 million ($4.2 million) building "ecological arks" across the iconic coral reef, reports Xinhua news agency.
Stroke, altered mental state increase death risk for Covid-19 patients
The study looked at data from 4,711 Covid-19 patients who were admitted to Montefiore during the six-week period between March 1, 2020, and April 16, 2020. Of those patients, 581 (12 per cent) had neurological problems serious enough to warrant brain imaging.
China's Chang'e-5 retrieves 1,731 grams of moon samples
Zhang Kejian, head of the CNSA, handed over the samples to Hou Jianguo, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Saturday, reports Xinhua news agency.
NASA to fly deep-space capsule despite power unit component issue
Engineers identified an issue with a redundant channel on one of the Orion spacecraft's Power and Data Unit (PDU) communication cards during final assembly of the spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion has a total of eight PDUs, each of which has two cards with two redundant channels on each card that help provide communication between Orion's flight computers to its components.
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