OUTREACH PROGRAM OF GUJARAT SCIENCE CITY Students were amazed to see the wonderrs of the SKy oBservation inside the inflatable planetorium . Lots of students were linned up to crawl downinside the planetorium. Environment Awareness Fair at Indroda Nature Park, Gandhinagar during 19 - 20th February 2005 The Gujarat Science City participated in a two-days Environment Awareness Camp held at Indroda Nature Park, Gandhinagar during 19-20 February 2005. GEER Foundation organized the district level camp in collaboration with Water and Sanitation Management Organization (WASMO), Gandhinagar. The activities included exhibition by eco-clubs members and the other organizations and institutions, who are working for the cause of environment education and conservation. The camp aimed at creating environmental awareness through students by setting up eco-clubs in schools. It was a part of its main programme for the National Green crops (NGC) programme, being sponsored by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF), Govt of India. In Gujarat, GEER Foundation is working as the nodal agency and is now coordinating 3750 eco-clubs in the state with an around 150 eco-clubs in each of the 25 districts of the State. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Shri M. L. Sharma inaugurated the camp on 19th February 2005. In his inaugural address, Shri Sharma highlighted the importance of environment awareness programme and asked for the student's role in spreading the awareness about environment education and its protection. Earlier, Shri C. N. Pandey, Director, GEER Foundation welcomed the participants, dignitaries and the participating organizations. He informed that the foundation is conducting several nature camps in and around Indroda Nature Park and providing an ideal platform for nature education components. The Gujarat Science City opened its stall by displaying all its programmes and activities on environment and nature education as well as training on bioresources and biodiversity. Shri S. D. Vora, Executive Director, Gujarat Science City visited the camp both the days and supervised the activities. He also interacted with the senior officers of the Department of Forests, Govt of Gujarat and enlightened about various innovative nature education programmes of the Science City. Among the other organizations, the Centre for Environment Education (CEE), WASMO, Gandhinagar, Department of Forests, Govt of Gujarat, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Department of Post are also participated in this two day camp and setup their informative stalls. Many interested school level eco-club members, forest officers and conservators and the local teachers visited Science City stall and shown their interest and desires for the activities on science city as well as nature camps. Several films on nature education and interactive activities were shown to the visitors on LCD screen. Dr. Narottam Sahoo along with the Technician Shri Dharmenda Mauria and student volunteers, Ms. Tarika Patel, Shri Hemant Soni coordinated the activities of the camp. The Science City also put up the inflatable planetarium and arranged shows the students and the general visitors of the camps on sky observation. Shri Pradip Mavadhiya and Devarsh Patel Conducted the planetarium shows. Both the days there were lots of student activities like poster painting, essay writing and skit presentations. The valedictory function was organized on 20th February evening. Shri Arjun Singh, IAS, Secretary, Department of Forests, Govt of Gujarat addressed the participants as Chief Guest and had a high regard for their concerns and activities on environment awareness. He distributed prizes and certificates to the meritorious students. During the function, the Gujarat Science City was awarded a memento as a token of appreciation on its programmes and activities. It was a good experience by participating and interacting with the students and the resource persons working on eco-club projects. It also helped us to identify the active eco-clubs and their coordinators for further training activity at science city during the year 2005-2006. Bhoomi Pujan on 11-Feb-05 Humble beginning: Bhoomi Pujan of Road, Parking and Utility construction work in Science City on 11.02.2005 in the hand of Shri Vagmin Buch, Additional Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Govt of Gujarat in presence of Shri S. D. Vora, Executive Director, Gujarat Science City.
device that filters HIV from blood has been developed by a company in California . It says the device could be used in conjunction with antiretroviral drugs , which slow the progress of AIDS by lowering levels of the virus. Unlike drugs, though it should have no side effects, nor should the vieus be able to develop resistance The advice, called the HIV- Hemo-purifier, comes in a cartridge that fits into kidney dialysis machines It contains hollow fibres with pores just large enough for the virus to pass through.
Inside the fibres there are beads coated with antibodies that bind to gp120, protein found on the surface of HIV, as well as antisense DNA that binds to viral RNA
As with normal dialysis, the idea is to pass blood through the cartridge and back into patient. Viruses that enter the fibres should stick to the beads.
The manufacturer, says that inpre clinical trials the device removed 90 percent of HIV from contaminated blood plasma.
The idea for the device came Julian Ambrus of the state university of New York at Buffalo. Different versions of the device could be used to filter out other viruses, such as the hepatitis c virus, or even heavy metals, he says.
It's a clever approach, says researchers. at the US National Institute of Health. But they point out that the company has yet to prove that it will work on a real person. There is a major issue with this device in that the Gp 120 proteins, which are like stalks are very fragile bald" virus particles could easily pass through the filter without being captured, she says. While the role of Gp120 protein is to help HIV enter cells, the blad virus be might still be able to do this. Another problem is that dialysis is time- consuming and the equipment expensive. Blood dialysis treatments for kidney patients take around four hours.
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device that filters HIV from blood has been developed by a company in California . It says the device could be used in conjunction with antiretroviral drugs , which slow the progress of AIDS by lowering levels of the virus.