India's Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project has drawn criticism from geneticists for not publishing its first results in a peer-reviewed journal. Researchers have also dismissed as hype some of ...

OSDD is basically a system of pooling global information sources, expertise, facilities and management systems for drug discovery where individuals, groups and organisations pitch in as a combined ...

On a computer screen, UC Jaleel, a pharmaceutical researcher, shows me a complicated blue structure suspended against a black background. It looks like the outline of a giant lump of quartz. Jaleel ...

Hundreds of scientists gathered in the Indian capital today to develop an online gene map for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the TB causing bug. The massive exercise could help make cheaper drugs to cure ...

Hit by funds crunch since 2014, the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Project — fronted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and conceived as a unique global programme to find ...

It is an idea that has not set the country on fire, but has been noticed all over the world. For a few years now, it has been knocking at the doors of international technology awards, but losing out ...

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has launched an innovative 'open source drug discovery' (OSDD) programme to combat infectious diseases that afflict the developing world. OSDD ...