A gene-based test called next-generation sequencing can identify precise mutations, which can then be treated with targeted therapies. Sinc...

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Today, India is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices; the largest exporter of rice; and among the leading producers of ...

A groundbreaking DNA study has uncovered evidence of a third ancestral group contributing to Japan's population, originating from northeast...

A young soldier's final message to his mother, "no tears," echoes as Sgt. Celestino Chavez, missing for 75 years after the Korean War's Cho...

Apollo Hospitals, India's largest healthcare network, is strategically embracing technology-led healthcare, focusing on digital integration...

Strand Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has introduced CancerSpot, a blood-based test for early cancer detection. It emp...

The team involved in this landmark research comprised Dr. N.V. Singh, Dr. P. Roopa Sowjanya, Dr. Shilpa Parashuram, Dr. P.G. Patil and Dr. ...

The seven-year-old child, who tested positive, has returned from Abu Dhabi and then took a flight to Hyderabad with his family. From Hydera...

Meanwhile, the Centre has notified Noida-based National Institute of Biologicals (NIB) as another laboratory to approve Covid-19 vaccine.

Department of Biotechnology to rope in 22 partners for project that will help develop better therapies.

The Bengaluru-based company is named after the first two letters of the name and surname, Parpati Genomal, the founder’s mother.

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of one of the world's most iconic animal families - elephants, and their relatives mammoths a...

The barley genome is almost twice the size of the human genome.

Researchers sequenced the genome of the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides), the first cephalopod ever to be fully sequenced.

Until now, the only class of arthropods not represented by a sequenced genome was the myriapods, which include centipedes and millipedes.

That means coffee did not inherit caffeine-linked genes from a common ancestor, but instead developed them on its own.