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Business Standard : British scientists have built a novel virtual reality (VR) 3D model of cancer that will help increase the understanding of cancer as well as in the search for new treatment. Researchers from the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) took from a patient the tumour sample -- a one millimetre cubed piece of breast cancer tissue biopsy -- containing around 100,000 cells, the BBC reported on Wednesday. The team cut the tissue into wafer thin slices and scanned them. Then they stained the slices with markers to show their molecular make-up and DNA characteristics. The tumour was rebuilt using VR, which was analysed within a VR laboratory. "No one has examined the geography of a tumour in this level of detail before; it is a new way of looking at cancer," the BBC quoted Greg Hannon, Director of CRUK's Cambridge Institute, as saying. "Understanding how cancer cells interact with each other and with healthy tissues is critical if we are going to ...

As the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has decided to conduct the re-examination of Multi-Tasking Staff (Non-Technical) Examination, 2016 (Paper-I) from September 16 to October, the candidates are requested to visit the Commission’s official site for updates on the release of Admit Cards as soon as they are available. The Commission is going to announce the SSC Multitasking Staff Admit Card soon in the 1st Week of September for about 8,300 vacancies of multitasking staff. The Commission had received around seventy lakhs application forms for the exam. As per the latest updates announced by the Commission, the written examination will now be conducted through the online mode. A Computer Based Test will be conducted to shortlist the participants. Candidates who are selected will be called for Personal Interview. Know Your Exam Pattern: The SSC MTS 2016--17 Exam pattern has been through a change from this year. It will be conducted online with the number of questions decreased...

The Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) 2017 will start the single window counselling system on July 17 (Monday). It will start with counselling for vocational stream candidates on Monday and Tuesday followed by the academic stream candidates, July 23 (Sunday) and end on August 11 (Friday) as confirmed by the higher education minister K P Anbazhagan at a press conference. It has also been confirmed that Counselling for seats in the differently abled category would be undertaken on July 19 (Wednesday). Verification of sports quota certificates will be on July 19 and 20 followed by the counselling for this quota on July 21 (Friday). And the counselling for General Category students seeking admission to engineering will be held from July 23 to August 11. As far as special categories are concerned, counselling for SC/ST category seats will be undertaken on August 18. The TNEA is a single window counselling system conducted by the Government of Tamil Nadu state facilitating the c...

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) recently released a notice regarding the filling up of the post of junior executive under 25% departmental examination quota. The vacancies to be filled are in law, official language, finance, CP&MS, fire service, technical and operations). Applications are invited from eligible and willing candidates with requisite qualification prescribed as per R&P guideline 2005 and subsequent amendments. Candidates have to submit duly filled in application along with supporting documents at concerned airport / station on or before July 28, 2017. The applications of only those candidate who fulfill the eligibility criteria may be forwarded to General Manager (HR), Recruitment Cell, CHQ, Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan, New Delhi by the concerned Regional Executive Director latest by August 7, 2017. Eligibility criteria Candidates keen on JE – fire service posts should have a bachelor’s degree in engineering technology in fire engineering/ mecha...

After declaring the results for Degree Online Services, Telangana (DOST) 2017-18 admission and first seat allotment, the Telangana State Council of Higher Education has released the second seat allotment on its official site (dost.cgg.gov.in). Applicants need to log in to the site and check the list. The DOST seat allotment encompasses 1200 colleges and six universities The qualified candidates (DOST) can take up their academic courses at Osmania University, Kakatiya University, Telangana University Mahatma Gandhi University, Satavahana University and Palamuru University. The Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) manages, supervises and administers online degree admissions for the academic session 2017-18. The State govt. appointed Prof. K Venkata Chalam as the Vice Chairman-I to undertake the seat allotment in degree courses at all government, aided, private and autonomous colleges in the state. Around 1.5 lakh students applied for 4 lakh seats in a number of de...

Throughout the year there keep arising various vacancies in banking sector. These vacancies vary from internship to senior most post. And the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection takes leadership in inviting, testing (through exams) and selecting the candidates suitable for the vacancies. The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is inviting applications for various highly technical posts in IBPS. The posts include Law Officer, Analyst Programmer (Linux), Analyst Programmer (Windows) and IT Administrator. If your profile matches one of these posts, hurry up to register online. Any eligible candidate, willing to join IBPS as Law Officer, Analyst Programmer (Linux), Analyst Programmer (Windows), IT Administrator or Research Associate is required to register for the online examination. Candidates who appear and are shortlisted in the examination, will subsequently be called for further process of selection including Item Writing/Group Exercises/Computer Programmi...

The Oxford dictionary defines ‘ University ’ as a high-level educational institution in which students study for degrees and academic research is done. Etymologically, ‘university’ is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which crudely means "community of teachers and scholars." During medieval times, association of students and teachers with collective legal rights given by princes and statesmen or the towns in which such associations were located came to be known as university. India’s higher education system works at both private and public level universities. Public universities function under the directives issued by the Government of India and the state governments whereas private universities function under various approved educational bodies and societies. The University Grants Commission (UGC), the highest educational authority, recognizes and awards the ‘universal’ status to various universities. The UGC draws its power from the Unive...