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3D brains, petabytes of data & a COVID-era bet: Inside IIT Madras’ push to map entire human brain

Goal is to study how diseases affect the brain and use knowledge to guide research into treatments, including drugs and gene therapy. Detailed maps could also help planning for certain surgeries.

How IIT Madras is mapping India’s ‘vascular age’ to develop early warning guidelines for heart risks

Researchers aim to make a specialised measurement, usually associated with expensive equipment & limited availability, accessible at a much lower cost. The full test will take five minutes.

Doctors learning linear algebra, engineers anatomy. Why IIT Madras is fusing medicine with engineering

The projects, from Dept of Medical Sciences & Tech at IIT Madras, are also groundwork for a full-fledged School of Medical Sciences, with a hospital.

The search for a breast cancer vaccine tailored for Indians. Inside a decade-long effort at IIT Madras

At the National Cancer Tissue Biobank, researchers are using a repository of 10,000 cancer tissue samples to develop an experimental mRNA-based vaccine for breast cancer.

We produce either seers or technicians, but not men who are both: S Radhakrishnan

In July 1964, President S Radhakrishnan delivered a speech at the first convocation of IIT Madras, explaining why promoting science and technology was crucial to raising people's standard of living.

IIT M and CMC Vellore are building a kidney’s ‘digital twin’. It will catch diseases early

While researchers have trained the initial AI models on nearly 12,000 CT scan images, they highlight that finding open records of patients is hard in India.

Who is liable if AI causes you harm? IIT Madras paper puts India’s consumer law to the test

Paper authored by Balaraman Ravindran, who heads Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI at IIT Madras, Omir Kumar, Sriya Sridhar, Vibhav Mithal. First in series on AI & consumer rights.

Should IIT Madras do more or become more?

India needs medical technology and indigenous capability. The harder question is whether building a full medical school is the best way for IIT Madras to deliver them.

Less than 10 cancer biobanks for 25 lakh patients: Shortage is affecting treatment, research in India

New Delhi: Every year on 18 August, the world marks World Breast Cancer Research Day, a reminder that awareness alone doesn't save lives, research...

On Camera

MC Stan questioned women rappers’ anger. He should know what rap is built on

MC Stan has built his music around struggle, rivalry and aggression. So why question women rappers for bringing their own anger to hip-hop?

India’s crude imports set to record highest-ever 5.4-5.6 mn b/d in October as refiners diversify supplies

Russian oil accounts for 35 percent of imports, down from 55 percent in July, as Angola and Venezuela gain amid shipping disruptions.

Design, develop & deploy: Sarvam signs 5-year MoU with MoD to build AI for Army, Navy, IAF

Work will be carried out by Chanakya, Sarvam’s firewalled division. Focus areas are decision support, target acquisition and data fusion across the ‘sensor-to-shooter loop’.

Netanyahu has won because he isn’t defeated. And Israel is left more divided

Netanyahu has won only because he hasn’t been defeated. He’s also changed Israel fundamentally. Any ruling alliance now will have to be a coalition to the exclusion of Israel’s Arab citizens.