Significant technological advances

The bikini was invented in 1946 and named after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of atomic bomb testing. Jacques Heim and Louis Reard - Bikini Inventors The inventors were two Frenchmen, Jacques Heim and Louis Reard. Of course, Heim and Reard didn’t create the idea of the bikini; drawings of bikini-like suits have been found on wall paintings dating back to 1600 B.C. Atome Bikini The modern term “bikini” for a particular bathing suit design was first used by Heim and Reard (who were, in reality, the re-inventors of the bikini). Heim was a couturier designer from Cannes, France, who had designed a very small bathing suit called the “Atome” (french for atom). He hired a skywriting plane to advertise his design by skywriting “Atome - the world’s smallest bathing suit”. Three weeks later, Reard, a mechanical engineer, had another skywriting plane write “Bikini — smaller than the smallest bathing suit in the world.”

New Type Of Vaccine Against Nicotine Addiction Developed By TSRI Scientists Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have designed a new way to make vaccines against drugs of abuse that could become a valuable tool for treating addiction by helping the body clear the drug from the bloodstream. The latest vaccine they created using this approach induces the body to clear nicotine.

The vaccine blocks cocaine’s “high” A vaccine which can help cocaine addicts break their addiction has been developed by a UK pharmaceutical company.

Some pharma companies have diversified into biotechnology and some start-up companies engaged exclusively in biotech have achieved a significant level of success, particularly in vaccines, enzymes, monoclonal antibodies, GN-CSF (Filgrastin), Erythropoietin, Streptokinasae, Taxol derivatives, anti-ulcer drugs and bioinformatics. For instance, I would like to mention vaccine products such as tetanus, rabies, oral polio vaccine, measles, hepatitis BDPT, BCG, diphtheria toxoid, interferon, and so on produced in India in this period. In addition, animal vaccines are also being produced in large quantity. It is a fact that India is uniquely positioned in the global vaccine market, being the world’s largest producer and accounting for approximately one third of the global sales. It is believed that India will emerge as the largest supplier of vaccines and some other biotech products all over the world in the years to come.