INDIAN-AMERICAN NUMEI KUM 17 IN $2,500,000 PRIZE NGAH
March 17, 2017: US gam-ah Regeneron Science Talent Search competition ah Indian-American kum 17 mi Indrani Das kici in "neurodegenerative disease leh brain injury" lamsang a nasepna hangin Regeneron Science Talent Search competition top prize ngah a, a sum tangin $2,50,000 (Rs. 1.63 crore) ngah hi. Indrani Das pen New Jersey khua-a teng hi a, Regeneron Science Talent Search kidemna ah khuak natna/liamna lamsang leh degerative natna damna dingin neutron nuntak theihna rate khan'sak theihna ding a bawl theih manin pahtawina kipia ahi hi.
Khuak liamna leh degenerative natna hangin neuron si thei a, neutron pen a sih ciangin "astrogliosis" piangsak hi. Astrogliosis a pian' ciangin khuak a cells kicite ah a liamnate khangsak a, tua pen astrocytes kici hi. Astrocytes a pian' ciangin liamna khangin, mun tuamtuam ah kihawm sak in (dividing) ahih manin a liamna dam theihna dingin a kisam glutamate a lut ding na dal ahih manin neuron nuntak zawh theihna ding hamsa sak hi. Indrani Das in neuron nuntakna theihna ding a khan'sak theih manin hih bang pahtawina kipia hi. Indrani in laboratory model ah astroytes panin exosomes khenkhia in, tua panin astroytes microRNA-124a lamah hei phei in lutsak a, tua hangin astrocytes in glutamate a kisam zah lut/laksak thei hi. Glutamate a lut/laksak theih manin neuron nuntak theihna ding khangsak thei hi.
Tua banah Indian-American teen (teen cih pen kum 13-19 kikal mite cihna hi) Arjun Ramani in hih kidemna ah a thumna ngah ahih manin pahtawina sum $1,50,000 ngah hi. Arjun' project pen mathematics lam tawh kisai graph theory leh computer programming siam ahi hi. A nihna pen geometries hamsa mahmah equation tuamtuam tawm kha bek zangin mathematical method mu khia Jews-American Aaron Yeiser hi a, pahtawina sum $1,75,000 ngah hi.
Regeneron Science Talent Search competition pen US gam-a Science kidemna lakah a upa pen hi a, ‘Junior Nobel Prize’ zong kici hi. Hih kidemna pen Regeneron company tawh kipawl Society for Science and the Public kicite saina tawh tawh a kinei ahi hi. Hih kidemna ah finalists mi 40 ngahte lak panin Indian-Americans 13 tak kihel zo uh hi.
Indian-American Archana Verma in a ngana ngah a, pahtawina sum $90,000 ngah hi. Amah pen solar power piak khiat theihna dingin "development of windows" research a bawl manin a ngana ngah hi. Indian-American Prathik Naidu in "human genomes and cancer" sin theihna dingin software a bawl khiat manin a 7na ngah a, pahtawina sum ($70,000) kipia hi. A 9na dingin Indian-American Vrinda Madan in malaria damna ding zatui a sinna hangin $50,000 ngah hi. Society for Science the Public President Maya Ajmera in hih Regeneron Science Talent Search kidemna a finalists 40te pen mai lam hun ciangin i scientist makai dingte uh hi ci hi. Hih kidemna ah sangpaupang 1,700 kihel hi.
Source: The Hindu
A tei: Thang Khan Lian @ Zomi United News
A tei: Thang Khan Lian @ Zomi United News



