A new university opened near Bangalore today to bridge traditional health and science knowledge of India with western biomedical sciences. Sam Pitroda, chairman of the Institute of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, told NDTV, "The big idea is to really take traditional health system practices and integrate with modern science. A lot of our traditional knowledge is not organized - for example we have 6,500 herbal medicinal plants - we need to computerize database... and then whatever else we know needs to be converted into science through either clinical trials or enough data, so shlokas get converted into science."
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