From pharmacy to innovation hub: Why India needs a regulatory revolution in biotechIndia aims to transition from a global pharmacy to an innovation hub by reforming its regulatory landscape. The focus is on AI-powered appr...
18 Aug, 2025, 11.32 PM IST
Can snails help us cure blindness? Scientists see hope in nature’s unexpected healerScientists are studying apple snails from South America. These snails can regrow their eyes. Researchers believe this ability could help cu...
08 Aug, 2025, 10.43 PM IST
AI driven Innovations in targeted drug delivery: The emergence of needless syringes.Scientists are developing AI-designed molecular syringes. These syringes use modified bacterial proteins. They target specific cells for dr...
12 Jun, 2025, 12.05 PM IST
CRISPR, brighter than AI: India must invest in innovation, ethical use of this transformative gene-editing toolIndia has the chance to lead in CRISPR technology by driving ethical gene editing innovations in healthcare, agriculture, and environmental...
12 Mar, 2025, 10.58 PM IST
Navigating the Future: Technology's promise, pitfalls, and path forwardFrom communicators to drones, India's tech scene is exploding. Digital payments, AI, and biotech are transforming industries at an unpreced...
20 Dec, 2024, 11.57 PM IST
Da Vinci to gene editing: Asia's richest person Mukesh Ambani reveals his favourite books. Industrialist Harsh Goenka shares videoMukesh Ambani, Asia's wealthiest person, discussed his reading habits, emphasizing his interest in technical books on gene editing and bloc...
30 Jul, 2024, 12.25 PM IST
Meet the climate-defying fruits and vegetables in your futureRecently, it has been seen that too much sunlight is causing burns to the apple crops. Even the pests that farmers didn't ever use to see a...
26 Sep, 2023, 09.50 AM IST
Marine scientists unearth genome secrets of Indian oil sardineThe CMFRI statement said the researchers have also identified the genes involved in the biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) ...
07 Sep, 2023, 02.03 PM IST
In first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patientWhile it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for l...
11 Jan, 2022, 10.33 AM IST
Nobel prize ceremonies go low-key this year because of coronavirusTraditionally, the lavish Nobel ceremonies are held Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of prize founder Alfred Nobel, at an ornate city ...
07 Dec, 2020, 05.28 PM IST
Americans Paul Milgrom, Robert Wilson win Nobel prize in economicsThe award caps a week of Nobel Prizes at a time when much of the world is experiencing the worst recession since World War II because of th...
12 Oct, 2020, 03.37 PM IST
This is the first time in my life I've been without words: WFP head David Beasley on Nobel Peace PrizeThe announcement was made in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee. The Nobel Committee said that the coronavirus ...
09 Oct, 2020, 03.41 PM IST
Biotech startups choosy on deals with big pharma: Bayer executiveRegulatory and clinical development expertise and the might to take products through the commercialization stages offer a natural edge to b...
24 Dec, 2017, 11.20 PM IST
World's first stable semi-synthetic organism createdResearchers said the work could be used to create new functions for single-celled organisms that play important roles in drug discovery and...
24 Jan, 2017, 01.31 PM IST
'Chinese scientists control cotton disease with gene technology'Chinese scientists with the Institute of Microbiology of Chinese Academy of Sciences found that gene interference technology can prevent th...
04 Oct, 2016, 02.29 PM IST
China to perform world's first human genetic editing trialCRISPR, short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, was named "2015 Breakthrough of the Year" by the US journal Sc...
02 Aug, 2016, 02.24 PM IST
Innovations that will change the worldAll biologists are expecting genome engineering to become a widespread practice in their labs. China will finish making its radio telescope...
05 Jan, 2016, 05.13 AM IST