China's Sinovac COVID-19 booster weaker against Omicron: Hong Kong StudySinovac's CoronaVac and state-owned Sinopharm's BBIBP-CorV vaccine are the two most-used vaccines in China.
Study shows why second vaccine dose of Covid is importantThe study showed that the number of antibodies produced and protection offered by vaccination increased substantially after the second vacc...
How does the Delta variant dodge the immune system? Scientists find cluesThe variant, first identified in India, is believed to be about 60% more contagious than Alpha, the version of the virus that thrashed Brit...
N440K in Gujarat: The new super infective virus strain on the blockResearchers found that Maharashtra reported the highest number of samples, 91, consisting of the N440K mutant of the 772 Covid virus genes ...
Praj Industries has announced development of technology to produce lignin based bio-bitumenLignin is one of the co-products resulting from the 2nd generation ethanol plants, paper making and also from compressed biogas plants. Bit...
Pfizer Covid shot neutralises Brazilian strain in lab studyIn lab experiments, the shot demonstrated “roughly equivalent” levels of neutralising activity against the Brazil and UK strains compared w...
Indian researchers start trials on saliva-based Covid-19 testingThe Medanta Institute of Education and Research in Gurgaon, Mumbai-based diagnostics company TransAsia Bio and Pune’s Mylab are among those...
All protocols for setting up of BSL-3 lab completed, waiting for ICMR nod: Health SecretaryAll measures have been carefully completed and sent to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) New Delhi, he said, adding that the depart...
Government starts efforts to find coronavirus vaccineThe Vaccine Task Force set up earlier in April is co-chaired by Paul and Vijay Raghavan and met on April 16 and April 20 to approve the dec...
Punjab Agriculture Department raids vendors selling spurious pesticides, agriculture inputsthe state-wide raids have been conducted on 410 shops and subsequently 207 samples have been drawn for examination.
No evidence of polio type- 2 virus strain: Bio-medHowever last week the Ghaziabad district court granted bail to Mr Garg on the grounds that the arrests made under the FIR by drug inspector...
Directorate General of Foreign Trade unveils norms for human bio samples tradeIn a separate trade notice, DGFT said that grapes packed in imported material do not fall under ineligible category under a norm of the for...
DNA testing to identify those killed in fire tragedy"The testing procedures has started. Samples will start arriving this afternoon", Institute Director, Prof M Radhakrishna Pillai, told PTI.
Environment ministry releases new Bio-medical waste management rulesThe Environment ministry today released the new Bio-medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 which will bring in a wider and more comprehensive...
- Virus attack in Asiatic lions a hoax: Study
The result of examination of the presence of Canine Distemper Virus (CDR) or Pestes Des Petitis Ruminants Virus (PPVR) in Asiatic lion has ...
- CAG for polluter pay principle to curb waste dumping
The CAG has suggested the "polluter-pay" principle to deter dumping waste in the open, which causes health and environment hazards.
- Now, cancer diagnosis in 15 minutes
Diagnosis of life-threatening diseases such as cancer may become a matter of minutes as scientists have developed a new bio-sensor technolo...