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Mandrake Bio raises Rs 16 crore to build AI-powered gene-editing platform for agriculture, medicineBengaluru startup Mandrake Bio secured sixteen crore rupees in new funding. This capital will expand their AI and biophysics teams for plat...
The Animal That Edits Its Own Genes After They’re WrittenOctopuses possess a unique ability to rewrite their genetic messages. They extensively edit RNA after its creation, altering instructions b...
US baby with rare illness treated with tailor-made gene editIn a medical breakthrough, a US infant, KJ Muldoon, suffering from CPS1 deficiency, received a personalized gene-editing treatment. Doctors...
Bawendi, Brus and Ekimov bag 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on quantum dotsThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. B...
A database of 200 million-plus protein shapes is hypercharging biomedical researchSo far, scientists have been using X-ray crystallography to find out the shape of proteins. This is expensive and time-consuming. Of course...
- Duo wins Nobel Chemistry Prize for work on catalysts
The new technique, which relies on small organic molecules and which is called "asymmetric organocatalysis" is widely used in pharmaceutica...
2020: When Indian scientists shifted focus to COVID-19 and made huge stridesWhile many modified their research to suit COVID-19, others started afresh to cater to the more pressing and immediate demand - beating the...
View: Genome editing and lessons for IndiaIn the CRISPR system, a specific region in the bacterial genome collects small DNA snippets of the invading phage between repeat-spacer arr...
India's Feluda COVID-19 test cheaper, faster alternative to RT-PCR, say scientistsNamed after Satyajit Ray's famed detective, the Feluda test, which is priced at Rs 500 and can deliver a result in 45 minutes, is able to d...
Quantum Leap: Gene editing could prove to be a game-changerA Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, claimed last year that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies using Crispr, to make them resi...
- Gene editing can curb autism symptoms: Study
New York, June 27 (IANS) Scientists have found that editing a gene in the brain can help decrease the repetitive behaviours -- a symptom of...
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...
- Gene-editing technology identifies new HIV treatment targets
New York, Dec 20 (IANS) Using a gene-editing technology, scientists have identified three human genes essential for HIV infection, a findin...
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...
Scientists successfully modify human immune cells in labUsing a popular genome-editing system, scientists have for the first time devised a new strategy to precisely modify human T-cells, also ca...
Scientists think they've found way to make 'biggest biotech discovery of the century' saferChinese scientists made headlines when they used a gene-editing technique to modify the genomes of human embryos for the first time.
- Superbug: British researchers challenge India's stand
The researchers have challenged the stand of Indian health authorities who have been maintaining that drug-resistant pathogens such as the ...
'Combating Ageing: What India and China do is crucial'Countries such as India and China must make the most of the recent advances in regenerative medicine and cut monumental costs of old age, s...