Can youth be prolonged? Chinese scientists claim to have identified cells that accelerate ageingThe growth of these cells may be stalled through use of vitamin C supplements.
07 Nov, 2023, 09.07 AM IST
No new Covid variants emerged during China's recent outbreak: Lancet studyChina is widely reported to have ended its zero-Covid strategy on December 7, 2022. Since the lifting of these strict Covid-19 control poli...
10 Feb, 2023, 12.42 PM IST
China's Covid issues are causing concern throughout the world, here's how it will impact India?Experts believe that over one million people will die in China if the government lifts its zero-covid policy.
21 Dec, 2022, 04.14 PM IST
China drafts new rules to allow gene edited crops to overhaul seed industryGene editing is a newer technology that is seen as less risky than GM because it does not involve adding any foreign genes to a plant. Inst...
25 Jan, 2022, 10.37 AM IST
Coronavirus: Scientists from 4 BRICS nations to carry out genomic sequencing, mathematical modellingA whole-genome sequencing is required for the identification of genetic mutations and recombinations of the virus, while epidemiological st...
06 Aug, 2021, 05.26 PM IST
US report concluded COVID-19 may have leaked from Wuhan lab: WSJThe study was prepared in May 2020 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and was referred by the State Department whe...
08 Jun, 2021, 07.17 PM IST
China has been conducting experiments of dangerous pathogens with Pakistan since 2015: ReportAccording to the report written by Anthony Klan, Wuhan scientists are believed to have been conducting research into deadly pathogens in Pa...
27 Aug, 2020, 10.41 AM IST
Wuhan lab had three live bat coronaviruses: Chinese state mediaScientists think COVID-19 -- which first emerged in Wuhan and has killed some 340,000 people worldwide -- originated in bats and could have...
24 May, 2020, 11.27 AM IST
Battling calls for international probe into Covid-19 origin, China says it has no legal basis or utilityXi's warning that the country must get ready for unprecedented external adversity came amid China's “deepest economic contraction in nearly...
27 Apr, 2020, 06.16 PM IST
Wuhan virology lab chief denies COVID-19 originated from institute, says virus 'cannot be man made'The Director of a maximum-security laboratory in China's coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan has rejected claims that it could be the sou...
20 Apr, 2020, 10.00 AM IST
Chinese research firm attached to Army first to start 2nd clinical trial for coronavirus vaccineAn adenovirus vector vaccine, developed by a research team led by Major General Chen Wei of the Institute of Military Medicine under the Ac...
16 Apr, 2020, 04.57 PM IST
Coronavirus in China may have come from bats: StudiesThe coronavirus outbreak, which originated in the central Hubei province of China in December, has killed 361 with 57 deaths reported on Su...
03 Feb, 2020, 08.54 PM IST
Could Genome Research Council under public-private partnership be a way forward for India’s human genome program?In the last 25 years genomic technologies have evolved faster than the computing technologies, and the forecast of genomic market of $140 b...
02 Nov, 2019, 06.32 PM IST
Cheetahs migrated from North America 100,000 years agoThe cheetah is descended from a relative of American pumas and their fossil record extends across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
13 Dec, 2015, 02.37 PM IST
DNA analysis of 40,000 years old jawbone suggests that Humans interbred with NeanderthalsEarly modern humans interbred with Neanderthals when they first came to Europe, DNA analysis of a 40,000-year-old jawbone suggests.
23 Jun, 2015, 04.50 PM IST
Chinese scientists complete genome sequencing of grass carpA genome is the full complement of an organism's DNA; complex molecules that direct the formation and function of all living organisms.
04 May, 2015, 10.48 PM IST
- India, China sign MoU on technology co-operation
Taking forward bilateral cooperation, India and China on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding that would help strengthen ties betw...
07 Sep, 2006, 11.40 AM IST