Thursday 28 March 2019

Soon, 3D printed tissues to help heal bone, cartilage

Scientists are developing 3D-printed artificial tissues that may help heal bone and cartilage typically damaged in sports-related injuries.

The researchers at Rice University in the US-engineered scaffolds that replicate the physical characteristics of osteochondral tissue -- hard bone beneath a compressible layer of cartilage that appears as the smooth surface on the ends of long bones. Injuries to these bones can be painful and often stop athletes' careers in their tracks.



Osteochondral injuries can also lead to disabling arthritis. The gradient nature of cartilage-into-bone and its porosity have made it difficult to reproduce in the lab, but the scientists used 3D printing to fabricate what they believe will eventually be a suitable material for implantation.

The key is mimicking tissue that turns gradually from cartilage at the surface to the bone underneath.

The researchers printed a scaffold with custom mixtures of a polymer for the former and a ceramic for the latter with imbedded pores. This would allow the patient's own cells and blood vessels to infiltrate the implant, eventually allowing it to become part of the natural bone and cartilage.

In the future, the project will involve figuring out how to print an osteochondral implant that perfectly fits the patient and allows the porous implant to grow into and knit with the bone and cartilage.

Friday 22 March 2019

This NASA project will pay you 13 lakh rupees to lie in bed for 60 days

A new project offers to pay volunteers nearly 13 lakh rupees to lie in bed for 60 days to help scientists study how weightlessness affects the human body.

German Aerospace Center (DLR) in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has launched the Artificial Gravity Bed Rest Study (AGBRESA). The study will investigate the use of artificial gravity as a possible means of preventing the negative effects of weightlessness on the human body.



During the three-month study, two-thirds of the test participants will be rotated each day while lying in the DLR short-arm centrifuge in the medical research facility. The study participants will be paid 16,500 euros or nearly 13 lakh rupees.

The 12 female and 12 male volunteers will spend 60 days in the beds.

All experiments, meals, and leisure pursuits will take place lying down during the bed-rest phase. The participants will be restricted in their movements so that the strain on muscles, tendons and the skeletal system is reduced.

The beds are angled downwards towards the head end by six degrees. This will simulate the displacement of bodily fluids experienced by astronauts in a microgravity environment.

A large number of experiments will be conducted for this purpose on, among other things, cardiovascular function, balance and muscle strength, accompanied by cognitive tests and invasive examinations such as muscle tissue biopsies, microdialysis, measurement of electrical muscle activity and regular blood sampling.

Thursday 7 March 2019

Go places with a law degree!

From writers and politicians to freedom fighters and journalists, lawyers have donned many hats with great success. The Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, and India's first president, Dr Rajendra Prasad, were highly sucessful lawyers.

Law is one of the most popular career choices in India. Traditionally, students could specialise in either civil or criminal laws. However, this concept has changed and now students can opt to specialise in any of the options offered like patent laws, corporate laws, etc. A degree in law not only lets you practice as a lawyer but also opens up career options in corporate management, legal services and administrative services.

In India, legal education has been traditionally offered as a three-year graduate degree conferring the title of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. / B.L.). But that has changed and students interested in making a career in law can either do a three-year law course after graduation in any discipline or a 5 years’ course after 12th class. In fact, the 5 year program is seen as a better option.

The vision of Crescent School of Law is to produce promising and credible law graduates with knowledge and skills to meet the requirements of contemporary times. The present world we live in is global, competitive, and complex. The Crescent School of Law aims to train young minds with strong fundamentals, sound legal knowledge and skill-sets to deal, answer and fight for just and legal causes.

Crescent School of Law has been established with the objective of producing high quality law graduates to meet the ever growing need of such professionals both in the main stream legal as well as corporate fields.

The students of the CSL will come out of the school equipped with the best legal skills to be able to successfully face the challenges in their professional lives.

The School of Law offers two programs.

1. BBA LLB (Hons)

2. BCom LLB (Hons)


For details, visit http://www.bsauniv.ac.in/programmes-offered-csl


The vision of Crescent School of Law is to produce competent law graduates who can be a success as advocates, judicial officers, legal advisors and law Officers/executives not only in legal arena but in corporate and business world as well.

The Crescent School of Law espouses the cause of translating the Constitutional values into a reality. It cherishes a just and equitable society where every individual has a place to survive and flourish. Hence, for Crescent, Law is more of social engineering.


Mission

To train the students as competent legal/corporate professionals with all necessary in-puts with a holistic approach.

To provide excellent academic ambience where the students can learn and excel.

To equip the students to meet the challenges of profession by exposing them to contemporary issues through discussions, debates and by organizing work-shops, seminars and moot-courts.

To encourage a spirit of enquiry, research inquisitiveness with interdisciplinary approach to find solutions to the legal/social issues.


Salient Features of Curriculum

Honors degree program with academic rigour
Right balance between theory and practice
Emphasis on MOOT court practice
Options to specialize through electives
Special courses to enhance communication skill
Every semester mandatory legal internship

The LLB course is regulated by the Bar Council of India which sets rules and regulations regarding legal practice in the country. Any specialisation is done at masters, MPhil or PhD stage. Both the types of degree are recognized and are also qualifying degrees for practice of legal profession in India. A holder of either type of degree may approach a Bar Council of any States of India and get upon compliance with the necessary standards, be enrolled on the rolls of the said Bar Council. The process of enrolment confers a licence to the holder to practise before any court in India and give legal advice. The entire procedure of enrolment and post-enrolment professional conduct is regulated and supervised by the Bar Council of India.