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While cruising through the scenic highways of California, a visionary scientist named Kary Mullis stumbled upon an extraordinary concept th...

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The Red Cross expressed serious concern over the risk of Ebola and other pathogens escaping from a laboratory in Goma, DR Congo, due to ong...

A new Bio-safety Level-3 Lab is being established near the Kerala capital by the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) to conduct re...

The study, led by Alex Sigal at the Africa Health Research Institute in the South African city of Durban, indicates that the Covid-19 patho...

The mortality rate associated with bacterial infections was highest in Sub-Saharan Africa and lowest in high-income regions, including West...

The total funding of USD 122,475,000 will, over a period of five years, be distributed to the three top Indian health research institutions...

The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to preven...

Under the new Biosecurity Law, China will continue to build and approve more labs specialising in advanced pathogenic microbiology with a s...

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The DBT, DST, CSIR and DAE laboratories have been advised to strictly follow ICMR guidelines before initiation of testing for coronavirus i...

Multiple other strains of micro bacteria were also detected in other units.

Scientists have assumed parasites don't quickly jump from one species to another because of the way parasites and hosts co-evolve.