Scientists trace human blood cells back to ancient single-celled ancestorsScientists have uncovered evidence that human blood and immune cells may have evolved from ancient single-celled organisms nearly 700 milli...
28 May, 2026, 06.37 AM IST
New ‘Cicada’ COVID variant hits US: What BA.3.2 means and why experts are watchingThe BA.3.2 COVID-19 variant, nicknamed “Cicada,” has emerged in the United States and multiple countries, prompting close monitoring by the...
26 Mar, 2026, 06.45 PM IST
Another pandemic? China scientists discover new bat coronavirus that poses risk of animal-to-human transmissionA team of Chinese researchers have discovered a new bat coronavirus with the potential for animal-to-human transmission. The virus, named H...
21 Feb, 2025, 06.20 PM IST
Covid XEC variant symptoms, effect: What we know about Coronavirus' new variantCovid XEC is a new variant of Coronavirus has appeared in Germany on June. After that it is spreading rapidly across Europe. This can becom...
18 Sep, 2024, 03.12 AM IST
Chinese scientists successfully grow humanized kidney inside pigResearchers have successfully grown a humanized kidney inside a pig, a development that could help address the shortage of organs for trans...
11 Sep, 2023, 05.43 PM IST
What we know about the BF.7 coronavirus variant that has triggered fears of a fresh wave of infectionIndia has recently restarted random testing of international passengers, with the fear of a resurgent subvariant - the BF.7 - taking centre...
22 Dec, 2022, 11.56 AM IST
XBB and BQ.1: what we know about these two omicron 'cousins'XBB is a hybrid of two omicron BA.2 lineages, BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75. This makes XBB another grandchild of BA.2. XBB and BQ.1 are therefore ...
13 Nov, 2022, 12.05 PM IST
New Omicron sub-variant may be driving spike in casesThe Omicron variant of coronavirus replaced Delta as the predominant strain in India early this year. In the fourth week of December last y...
22 Apr, 2022, 06.21 AM IST
Two new Omicron subvariants detected by South African scientists"New Omicron BA.4 & BA.5 detected in South Africa, Botswana, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, and U.K. Early indications that these new sublineag...
12 Apr, 2022, 05.17 PM IST
Scientists discover harder-to-detect version of Omicron variantThe new lineage has about half the gene variations of the original and can’t be detected with typical screening.
08 Dec, 2021, 04.50 PM IST
BioNTech CEO says current vaccine likely to protect against severe COVID from OmicronLab tests are underway over the next two weeks to analyse the blood of people who had two or three doses of BioNTech's Comirnaty vaccine to...
30 Nov, 2021, 11.45 PM IST
New Covid variant could be more infectious, finds studyThe new variant was first found in South Africa in May, scientists from National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and the KwaZulu...
30 Aug, 2021, 07.04 PM IST
WHO says Covid-19 variant B.1.617 first found in India detected in 44 countries"As of May 11, over 4,500 sequences have been uploaded to GISAID and assigned to B.1.617 from 44 countries in all six WHO regions," the glo...
12 May, 2021, 02.07 PM IST
The SARS-COV-2 variants at play: All you need to knowAny changes in the viral genetic sequence during replication is known as a mutation and viruses with new mutations are sometimes known as v...
09 May, 2021, 09.48 AM IST
Second coronavirus lineage found in India with immune escape mutation, scientists sayThe new lineage called B.1.618 is distinct from the B.1.617, also known as the ‘double mutant' virus that contains two mutations, E484Q and...
22 Apr, 2021, 05.54 PM IST
Origins of lager beer traced back to 15th century BavariaThe beer world is divided into ales and lagers. The original and highly versatile yeast, Saccharromyces cerevisiae, has been used for mille...
13 Aug, 2015, 11.38 AM IST
'Artificial bones' generated from umbilical cord stem cellsScientists have successfully developed 'artificial bones' from umbilical cord stem cells, paving way for repair of bones.
25 Jul, 2013, 12.34 PM IST