Madagascar's unique wildlife faces a threat from invasive black rats. These newcomers are pushing out native tufted-tailed rats from degrad...

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has named her niece Claire Mazumdar as successor, setting up a gradual leadership transition at Biocon. A pioneer who b...

In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling captured Photo 51, a crucial X-ray diffraction image revealing DNA's helical structure. ...

Researchers have discovered Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a unique microbe found off the coast of Japan. This organism blurs the line between li...

A US company, Future Society, is recreating extinct flower scents. They partner with Harvard to extract DNA from preserved plants. The team...

The author reflects on the fallibility of copying, drawing parallels between autocorrect errors in text messages and mutations during DNA r...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists at the City of Hope, a leading cancer research institute in the US, have developed a game-changin...

Some 40 years of Slip Slop Slap (and more recently added, Seek and Slide) campaigns have reinforced this, not to mention the unpleasant exp...

Vaccine against cervical cancer has launched, and we bring associated risks and causes. Cervical cancer develops in the cells of the cervix...

RNA viruses are best known for the diseases they cause in people, ranging from the common cold to Covid-19.

Smoking, excess alcohol consumption, being overweight and stress are all associated with telomere loss.

When an organism replicates, it makes a copy of its entire genome to pass on to its offspring. Sometimes errors in the copying process can ...

The Ahmedabad-based drug maker will submit the results of its phase-2 trials next week, which "will ascertain the safety, dose and efficacy...

Introduced to the market in 2004, e-cigarettes are often touted as a safer alternative to regular cigarettes.

Researchers said the work could be used to create new functions for single-celled organisms that play important roles in drug discovery and...

Scientists have developed a new approach to help the immune system actively fight the virus in the body.

Scientists have shown for the first time that people may inherit some of the intestinal bacteria that cause Crohn's disease and ulcerative ...