The experience of Dr. Guha as related in the link supplied below is instructive of the hurdles that the world, including the countries and authorities of the inventors themselves, places on the path of indigenous knowledge production. Dr. Guha's tenacity though is cheering, and should encourage others like Nigeria's Dr. Jeremaiah Abalaka whose claim to inventing a working HIV vaccine has met with opposition and ridicule rather than assistance to help him validate the invention.
This is also the first time that I am learning about Dr. Suhbas Mukherjee, as being "the real architect of 'test-tube baby' procedure but lost the rights of invention to Louise Brown only because his work hadn't appeared in any international journal " and of his tragic death in 1981, it seems, by suicide.
 | Many view India's ballooning population –set to overtake China's by the next decade– as a ticking time-bomb, but a solution is now at hand that, nevertheless, has taken four long decades to see the light of day. www.rt.com |
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