Scientists transformed Skin Cells directly into Brain Cells

Scientists recently transformed skin cells directly into brain cells. This scientific finding could bypass the need for stem cells. Stem cells can be turned into any other specialist type of cell ranging from brain to bone. Therefore, these cells are used in a range of treatments. Alternatively, skin cells can be reprogrammed into introduced stem cells. These could be made from a patient’s own cells and transformed into the required cell type. However, the process can activate cancer-causing genes. Therefore, the scientists are trying to convert a person’s own skin cells into specialist cells

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Electronic Nose to Fight Tuberculosis

The Electronic Nose, which has the potential to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) in symptomatic patients, was awarded a $950,000 grants from Grand Challenges Canada and the Bill & Melina Gates Foundation to enable it to support further development and testing of this ground-breaking technology.

TB claims close to 1.7 million lives yearly and is second only to HIV / AIDS as the world’s most deadly infectious disease.

The two-year grant given to Electronic Nose will be used to validate the finding the finding in four centres throughout India.

Dr. Ranjan Nanda of the New Delhi-based International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, one of the lead researchers on the electronic nose project, aims to have a validated prototype by December 2013.

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Uruguay win Copa America

This year, Uruguay beat Paraguay to win the Copa America football tournament and be crowned South American champions for a record 15th time. Uruguay’s Luis Suarez’s, selected as player of the tournament.

The Copa America previously known as South American Championship, is an international football competition contested between the men’s national teams of CONMEBOL, the sport’s continental governing body. It is the oldest international continental football competition. The highest finishing member of CONMEBOL has the right to participate in the next edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup.

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2012 Australian Open

Defending champion Serbia’s Novak Djokovic defeated Spain Rafael Nadal in a five-set Australian Open final which lasted for 5hr, 53min, the longest title match in Grand Slam history.

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ICC Awards 2011

Cricket of the Year: Jonathan Trott (England)

Test Player of the Year: Alastair Cook (England)

ODI Player of the Year: Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)

ICC Emerging Player of the Year: Devendra Bishoo (West Indies)

Best T20 performance of the year: Tim Southee (New Zealand)

Spirit of Cricket Award: India

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LG ICC Awards 2011

The eigth LG ICC awards ceremony was held in London, England on 12 September 2011. The ceremony features 10 individual awards that over the years have honoured some of the biggest names in men’s and women’s international cricket and will be voted upon by a strong panel of former players, respected members of the media and an elite umpire and match referee. International Cricket Council has been hosting ICC Awards since 2004 and now is in its eigth year. The earlier ceremonies were held in London (2004), Sydney (2005), Mumbai (2006), Johannesburg (2007, 2009), Dubai (2008) and Bengaluru (2010).

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Clarke wins British open

Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke wins the British Open Championship 2011. With this victory, Clarke becomes the oldest winner of the Open Since Argentina’s Roberto de Vicenzo won aged 44 in 1967.

The British Open championship is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only “major” held outside the USA. It is the third major to take place each year, following The Masters and the U.S. Open.

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Mcllroy captures first Major title

The 22-year-old, Ireland’s Rory Mcllroy won his first Major golf title, and became the youngest US Open winner in 88 years. Mcllroy became the youngest major winner since Tiger Woods at the 1997 Masters and the youngest US Open winner since Bobby Jones in 1923. His triumph also marked the fifth Major in a row without an American winner.

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Anand wins Leon Masters

World champion Viswanathan Anand won the Leon Masters rapid chess title after defeating Spain’s Alexei Shirov at Leon. This was Anand’s record eighth triumph at the annual rapid chess destination. Anand’s previous triumphs came in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

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Sukanya Roy won U.S. Spelling Bee crown

Sukanya Roy won the crown at the prestigious Spelling Bee championships in Maryland, U.S. the 14-year-old is the fourth Indian-origin student in a row to bag top honours at the event, for correctly spelling the tongue twister ‘cymotrichous’.

The teenager earlier participated in the 2009 and 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bees, tying for the 12th place in 2009 and 20th place in 2010. This is the ninth time in 13 years that an Indian American has been declared a Spelling Bee champion, reflecting the dominance of the community students in the competition.

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