[Reader-list] RSS-developed cancer drug gets US patent

[anupam chakravartty]

"So?"

An editor of a local daily in north east once cautioned me that "So" is
"Quite possibly the most overused adverb in the English language, when
capitalized". There are others who say if someone says "so", you must take
them to be:

1. the other person doesn't know what to say.
2. when someone is not sure what to say. Usually repeated by another person.

3. Used by someone in a conversation if it doesn't matter.
4. Used by someone in a conversation if they don't care.

See people tell me all kinds of things about using "so" but what you
probably wanted to say is that "so what are you trying to prove?" or "so
what is the connection here?" I am sorry if i am assuming. The idea is not
trying to prove anything which will be bother you. My idea is have things in
a perspective which has not just one way of looking at it but many.

Thanks Anupam

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>wrote:

> So ?
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:30 PM, anupam chakravartty <c.anupam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for posting this Pawan. You might be interested to the other side
> of
> > the story as well.
> >
> > http://www.chowk.com/ilogs/65586/48030
> >
> > About a month and a half later, the media splashed the news that the
> > United States Patent and Trade Office had granted Patent No 6410059 to an
> > "Indian innovation which has proved that cow's urine can make
> > antibiotics, anti-fungal agents and also anti-cancer drugs more
> > effective" (The Hindu 4 July 2002). The product, cow-urine distillate
> > (CUD), was the result of a joint enterprise by the centrally funded
> > Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Vishwa
> > Hindu Parishad's Go-Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra (cow science research
> centre)
> > in Nagpur. Seems Murli Manohar Joshi, union minister for science and
> > technology as well, notorious for introducing 'vedic astrology' and
> reviving
> > Sanskrit courses in universities, had asked the Centre for Science and
> > Industrial Research in 1999 to investigate the chemical properties of
> cow's
> > urine. According to The report published in Indian Express (4 July 2002),
> 10
> > lakh rupees were spent over three years by the Central Institute of
> > Medicinal and Aromatic Plants at Lucknow to establish that "certain
> > compounds in cow urine, when used in combination with certain antibiotics
> > like the commonly used anti-tuberculosis drug rifampicin, can help kill
> more
> > bacteria than a single application of the antibiotic".
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Anupam
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RSS-developed-cancer-drug-gets-US-patent/articleshow/6058657.cms
> >>
> >> <
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RSS-developed-cancer-drug-gets-US-patent/articleshow/6058657.cms
> >
> >> NAGPUR: An anti-cancer drug extracted from cow urine and developed by an
> >> affiliate of the RSS has got a US patent for the third time for its
> >> anti-genotoxicity properties, a senior official has said.
> >>
> >> The drug developed by RSS-backed Go Vigyan Anusandhan Kendra had earlier
> >> got
> >> the US patent as a bio-enhancer with antibiotics and anti-cancer drugs.
> >>
> >> The research for the drug brand named 'Kamdhenu Ark' was carried out
> >> jointly
> >> by the Anusandhan Kendra and National Environmental Engineer Research
> >> Institute (NEERI), Acting Director of NEERI Tapan Chakraborty said.
> >>
> >> The research found that Re-distilled Cow Urine Distillate (RCUD) was
> >> useful
> >> for protecting and repairing DNA from oxidative damage, Chakraborty and
> >> Sunil Mansinghka of Kendra told reporters yesterday.
> >>
> >> Oxidative DNA damage is a leading cause of ageing, cancer and other
> >> diseases.
> >>
> >> RCUD works against genotoxicity, a harmful action on a cell's genetic
> >> material, they said, adding research has strengthened the efficacy of
> >> 'Kamdhenu Ark' as an anti-cancer drug.
> >>
> >> The research was carried out on three patients, two of them having
> throat
> >> and uterus cancer, Mansinghka said.
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