Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Cost effective drug discovery

Intellectual property right slows down the research (Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2011.93) but screening a single molecule from thousands of molecule and analysis costs a lot. To overcome cost in due time drug discovery task has to be categorized in basic research, clinical trial and production. The first two categories needs money and intellectual capacity and third one is money maker and they should be equally profited as the producer in case any molecule is going for production scale. A research grant should be distributed to multi institutional setup where scientist, clinician and company work on same target that will surely be great step to chase disease. The effort laid by Bountra is really appreciating and it will work. 

Cost effective drug discovery

Friday, January 28, 2011

How to save thar desert flora

Dramatic change in landscape is taking palaces due to climate changes (Nature, issue 469, 150-152; 2011) that is leading sever disturbance in ecosystem. Thar Desert of north Westran India harbouring many plant species of Prosopis family some of them are endemic and under facing serious threat of extinction. Attack from insect species belonging to families of order Heteroptera, Lepidoptera, Homoptera, Isoptera, and Coleoptera leading various species of plants. Number of Prosopis cineraria the state tree of Rajasthan state a source of livestock feeding decreasing in alarming rate and needs implication of conservation plan  immediately to safeguard the endemic flora of this beautiful state of Thar.