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Please click here for the PDF File  Vivek Rangnekar, an Indian American professor of radiation medicine, and a team of researchers at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, have modified a mouse to carry a tumor-suppressor gene called "Par-4" in its prostrate. They discovered that the gene killed cancer cells but not normal cells. Research is on to apply the breakthrough to human beings, using the gene's potential to fight cancer without the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (left) and Indian scientist Rajendra K. Pachauri after receiving the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, on December 10. For spreading awareness about global warming, Gore shared the prize with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, headed by Pachauri, and including hundreds of scientists from America, India and other countries. A senior research scholar on Fulbright's "South Asia, Middle East and North Africa" inter-regional studies program, Scott Kugle is based in Hyderabad, where he is undertaking a project called "Pilgrimage to Pluralism." The project details the religious pluralism of the booming information technology hub. http://www.fulbright-india.org/ Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari releases the book The State of India's Democracy at his residence in New Delhi on December 11. It was co-edited by Sumit Ganguly (right), an Indian American professor of political science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana; Professor Larry Diamond, senior fellow at Stanford University (left), and March F. Plattner, vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. It marks the 60th anniversary of India's independence and subsequent transition to democracy. Registration is now open at http://www.walkforlifeindia.org/ for the February 10 "Walk for Life" walk/run event in New Delhi. Organized by the CanSupport group, with help from the American Women's Association and the U.S. Embassy, the focus of the five-kilometer walk is to raise awareness about breast cancer and to raise funds for the care of patients. |
