Scientists at IIT Bombay have developed a new, more efficient method to convert simple, straight-chain fatty acids into complex ring-shaped molecules used in drugs and other chemicals. Published in _Nature_ and led by Prof. Debabrata Maiti, the technique solves a long-standing synthetic chemistry problem by selectively targeting specific carbon atoms in fewer steps, making drug discovery faster, cheaper, and more sustainable. The team used it to synthesize over 10 biologically relevant molecules, including muricatacin with anti-cancer properties, offering a scalable alternative to extracting such compounds from plants. #Research #Health #Medicine

India’s Biomedical Research Career Programme (BRCP) Phase-III has been launched with a ₹1,500 crore budget. Running from 2025–26 to 2030–31, with extended support until 2037–38, it provides milestone-based fellowships of up to ₹4.5 crore per grant.

The initiative prioritizes Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities, fosters multidisciplinary collaboration, and emphasizes translational research in genomics, infectious diseases, and affordable medical devices, aiming to build a diverse workforce and strengthen India’s position as a global biotechnology leader. #Research

🔗 Economic times

Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated four advanced R&D facilities at CSIR-IICT Hyderabad:

• the Advanced R&D Facility for Fluorochemicals,
• a 500 KLD Decentralized Effluent Treatment Plant for the Siripuram Handloom Cluster,
• a Continuous Processing Platform for Industrial Chemicals
• the Sustainable Engineering Complex (SustEC).

These facilities bridge laboratory research and commercial markets to foster growth for farmers, MSMEs, and startups via agri-research and industry partnerships. Additionally, a ₹44.46 Crore mega hostel complex for 200 young research scholars was founded. #Research

🚨 Thoothukudi-based Cosmicport has successfully completed the first hot-fire test of their Methalox cryogenic engine.

This is the engine that will power Cosmicport’s small-lift launch vehicle called Mach Blue. #Research #Aviation

Centre approved 22 research and innovation projects worth ₹4,744 crore with ₹2,192 crore funding from the RDIF to boost innovation in areas like energy, AI, quantum, space, biotech, and pharmaceuticals.

TDB and BIRAC were named fund managers and BIRAC has 8 more projects worth ₹390.35 crore under review, as part of the ₹1 lakh crore RDIF launched in 2025 to support indigenous tech and self-reliance.

#Research

🚨 Bhubaneswar-based Serendipity Space has successfully tested India’s first autonomous pharma factory, Alchemy, on a near-space mission.

It crystallized drug compounds and preserved them during recovery, testing key tech for future microgravity manufacturing. #Space #Medicine #Research #Startups

#Research #Startups

IIT Bombay is leading a consortium to create a wafer-scale two dimensional material for #quantum devices.

#Research #semiconductor

Gujarat is launching India's first state-sponsored genetic sequencing project to identify potential atheletes. #Research #Sports

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🌀Scientists have stumbled upon a crystalline #semiconductor that converts a temperature difference into an electrical voltage nearly a thousand times larger than textbook physics allows

🌀The thermoelectric voltage generated is so large that it rivals values normally seen only in liquid electrolytes and ionic gels, not in solid, particularly single-crystalline materials

🌀The discovery overturns a decades-old assumption about the ceiling on this effect in solids and opens a path to a new generation of ultrasensitive temperature sensors, heat detectors, and quantum sensing devices

#Research
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Zeiss Opens 1st Innovation Hub Outside Germany At Chennai's IIT Madras

🔹 German optics giant launches hub at IIT Madras Research Park - first outside Germany
🔹 Starts with 4-5 researchers, focus on frugal engineering, harsh-environment optics, robotics, fluid dynamics
🔹 To work with IITM depts, incubation cell, startups, health-tech ecosystem, student exchanges #Research

🔗 The Hindu

IIT Delhi researchers develop India’s first indigenously designed micro-GPU.

The micro-GPU architecture will enable indigenous graphics & display systems for embedded applications.

Led by MTech students Nammi Akash & M. Ravi Teja under Prof. Jayadeva & Prof. Kaushik Saha (EE Dept), it demonstrates programmable graphics rendering on a custom floating-point GPU engine (RTL → Spartan-7 FPGA).“This is the first working, demonstrable indigenously designed micro-GPU from a university in India,” the team stated.

Suitable for industrial displays, low-cost HMIs, e-rickshaw navigators, fishing boat terminals, e-book readers & more. Scalable IP, can target ASIC/FPGA.

Next: 8–16 core vector architecture + toolchain, aiming for 65nm ASIC proof-of-concept.

Read more at: shorturl.at/ixijx

#Tech #Research #aatmarnirbharbharat

IISER Bhopal, in collaboration with
IIT Kanpur and ISIS Muon Source, has discovered the simple Type-I superconductor YbSb₂ unexpectedly breaks time-reversal symmetry.

Confirmed via advanced muon spin spectroscopy, this material generates its own internal magnetic field to create a stable, easy-to-synthesize platform for noise-resistant quantum computers. #Research

🔗 IISER Bhopal

Government considers ₹8,000 crore outlay and Section 8 company for genome research database of population groups. Expenditure Finance Committee examined biotechnology department proposal for Cabinet clearance; plan scales up GenomeIndia and IndiGen. GenomeIndia completed 10,174 whole genome sequences and identified nearly 180 million genetic variants. #Research

💡⚛️🚀 IIT Delhi researchers have successfully transmitted fragile quantum-entangled photons alongside heavy classical internet data over a 50-km active telecom fiber link, proving quantum-secure communication can safely reuse existing infrastructure without requiring expensive dedicated cables.

While performance metrics like the exact secure key rate and quantum error bit rate (QBER) remain unpublished, this co-propagation milestone represents a massive leap for scalable, cost-effective defense and financial encryption networks in India. #Research #Quantum

🔗 IIT Delhi

⚛️🇮🇳 Samsung Semiconductor India (SSIR) + IISc Bengaluru open #Quantum Research Lab at IISc — CSR-funded facility for qubit characterisation, cryogenic electronics, device reliability, single-photon sources/detectors & 2D-material quantum devices; aims to train national talent pool & boost India's quantum + advanced #semiconductor ecosystem. #Research

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🇮🇳 C-DAC and Bank of India join hands to advance indigenous #quantum technologies for banking sector.

🔐 Partnership to explore quantum-safe banking and #cybersecurity solutions.

⚡ Joint #research and pilot projects planned.

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📡 C-DOT establishes 6th Centre of Excellence at IIT BHU to drive indigenous #research in 6G, very large-scale MIMO, AI, quantum/post-quantum comms, cybersecurity, and ISAC, AI–Native Networks, bridging academics with real-world tech for an Atmanirbhar #telecom ecosystem.

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