Researchers reveal Giant 74-ton, 1,600-foot-wide Earth-bound asteroid Bennu is brimming with life moleculesBennu asteroid discovery: Scientists found essential life-building molecules on asteroid Bennu. Sugars like ribose and glucose, crucial for...
06 Dec, 2025, 10.41 PM IST
Wondering where life began? Scientists reveal surprising ‘spark’ that may have kickstarted Earth’s first organismsA new study by University College London researchers offers fresh clues to life’s origins. The team showed that aminoacyl-thiols, sulfur-ba...
01 Sep, 2025, 03.10 PM IST
What is microRNA? All about Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun's discovery which won them Nobel Prize in Medicine 2024Scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering microRNA and its role in gene r...
07 Oct, 2024, 03.59 PM IST
CEPI to fund Gennova's self amplifying mRNA vaccine against Disease XThe Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Gennova Biopharmaceuticals have announced a new funding agreement to develop...
08 Aug, 2023, 04.37 PM IST
RNA-based therapy can protect from many Covid variants: StudyResearchers at Yale School of Medicine in the US noted that the molecule could lead to new treatments for COVID-19 in immunocompromised pat...
04 Jan, 2022, 03.46 PM IST
Scientists develop molecule that blocks COVID-19 infectionScientists have developed a new molecule that attaches to the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and prevents it from entering human cells and...
15 Dec, 2021, 12.58 PM IST
Can the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccines affect my genetic code?Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are mRNA vaccines, which contain tiny fragments of the genetic material known as “messenger ribonuclei...
26 Jun, 2021, 01.29 PM IST
How coronavirus interacts with proteins in human cells decodedAccording to researchers one of the most urgent tasks is to understand all the molecular interactions between the virus and the cells it in...
26 Dec, 2020, 08.08 PM IST
NCBS scientists identify 33 molecules that could be used to treat virus patientsA group of scientists led by Professor R. Sowdhamini at NCBS has identified the 33 small molecules from a database of over 3,30,000 small m...
03 Jul, 2020, 02.32 PM IST
Decoded: Why coronavirus complications aggravate in people with chronic illnesses, senior citizensThe MicroRNAs that control body's genes activity latch onto and cut the RNA of invading viruses.
14 May, 2020, 12.00 PM IST
UK researchers developing natural alternative to pesticides23 Aug, 2019, 03.37 PM IST
- Programming cells like computers to fight disease
London, Sep 18 (IANS) A new technique can help programme cells like a computer to fight cancer, influenza, and other serious conditions, su...
18 Sep, 2017, 05.22 PM IST
Nobel laureate Roger Kornberg to help India develop dengue, TB drugsKornberg said that after processing necessary documents, his laboratory at Stanford School of Medicine, will transfer RNA molecules to be t...
29 Apr, 2017, 11.26 AM IST
New customisable vaccine can fight Ebola, H1NI quickly: ResearchThe vaccines were able to stimulate both arms of the immune system -- a T cell response and an antibody response.
05 Jul, 2016, 04.12 PM IST
Building blocks of life may have originated from cometsThey propose the first realistic scenario for the formation of this key compound, which had never been detected in meteorites or cometary i...
10 Apr, 2016, 03.20 PM IST
Device detects several cancer types with single blood testA low-cost device that could detect the presence of dozens of different cancers using a single blood sample is being developed in the US.
13 Oct, 2014, 05.02 PM IST
New 'drug' blocks replication of AIDS virus for first timeThis achievement has been obtained for the "first time in the world" by a group of researcher led by Jose Gallego from Universidad Catolica...
29 Nov, 2013, 02.06 PM IST