Tech Mahindra, Reagene to file patent for molecule that potentially attacks coronavirusTech Mahindra Global Head (Makers Lab) Nikhil Malhotra told that the company along with its partner is applying for patenting on which furt...
02 May, 2021, 06.48 PM IST
COVID-19: Ayurveda formulations to be tested by CCMB for checking anti-viral efficacyStandardised Ayurveda formulations provided by AVS in Kottakkal would be tested on the lab-grown coronavirus in the cell culture system, th...
01 Jan, 2021, 06.45 PM IST
Yogi Adityanath government caps price of RT-PCR test by private labsAccording to the new directive, if a patient gives sample at the laboratory or the sample is collected by a hospital and sent to the lab th...
01 Dec, 2020, 10.26 PM IST
FDA flags accuracy issue with widely used coronavirus tests in the U.S.The warning comes nearly a month after Connecticut public health officials first reported that at least 90 people had received false positi...
18 Aug, 2020, 08.05 AM IST
Google adds new feature to Search, Assistant and Maps, update will show Covid-19 testing labsThe new feature is available in English along with 8 Indian languages.
12 Jun, 2020, 03.26 PM IST
China flaunts French connection to Wuhan lab; Ambivalent on WHO probe into origin of coronavirusAccusing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of fabricating lies over the involvement of the virology lab in Wuhan, Chinese Foreign Ministry ...
07 May, 2020, 05.21 PM IST
China asks Mike Pompeo to show 'enormous evidence' of COVID-19 originating from Wuhan labOn May 3, Pompeo said that the US has "enormous evidence" to show that the coronavirus began in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Beijing...
06 May, 2020, 05.46 PM IST
China asks Mike Pompeo to show 'enormous evidence' of COVID-19 originating from Wuhan labChina on Wednesday dared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to show "enormous evidence" he claimed to have to prove that the novel coronavir...
06 May, 2020, 04.19 PM IST
The Wuhan lab at the heart of the US-China virus spatThe Chinese laboratory accused by top American officials of being the source of the coronavirus pandemic conducts research on the world's m...
06 May, 2020, 11.46 AM IST
China lab rejects COVID-19 conspiracy claims, but virus origins still a mysteryConspiracy theorists have claimed SARS-CoV-2, now responsible for more than 200,000 deaths worldwide, was synthesised by the Wuhan Institut...
28 Apr, 2020, 11.32 AM IST
China says WHO has said no evidence coronavirus was made in a labUS President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his government is trying to determine whether the coronavirus emanated from a lab in Wuhan, Chi...
16 Apr, 2020, 03.12 PM IST
Don't have 'wherewithal' to do COVID-19 tests free of cost, expect govt to come up with modalities for sustainable testing: Pvt labsIn a big relief to the poor, the Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that private labs should conduct coronavirus tests free of cost, obser...
10 Apr, 2020, 03.44 PM IST
How can you find out if you have Coronavirus? You will have to take one of these 5 testsHere we try to collate the relevant info on how it is being tested and found out if one has caught coronavirus that has already killed in t...
01 Apr, 2020, 10.56 AM IST
Defence, atomic labs join the fight against CoronavirusThe country’s biotechnology, science and technology research institutions have also been tasked to source clinical samples from any governm...
23 Mar, 2020, 07.19 AM IST
ICMR may cap price of each coronavirus test at Rs 4,500-Rs 5,000 for private labs: OfficialThe Union health ministry had on Tuesday issued guidelines for private sector laboratories intending to initiate coronavirus testing while ...
21 Mar, 2020, 06.39 PM IST
Three Maharashtra labs testing coronavirus samples from other states tooOf these three facilities, the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) is a global referral laboratory, which gets samples even fro...
19 Mar, 2020, 04.41 PM IST
India should follow 'Social Distancing' in all earnestness: Health MinistryEarlier in the day, The Indian Council for Medical Research wished to involve accredited private laboratories for engagement in coronavirus...
17 Mar, 2020, 07.47 PM IST