In 1992, NASA studied C. elegans worms exposed to space radiation on IML-1; the experiment reported higher mutation rates than in ground controlsIn 1992, micro worms unveiled the troubling effects of space radiation on DNA, showcasing considerable genetic harm to these minuscule crea...
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Is Your Workplace Set Up for AI Agents?AI’s true productivity gains require redesigning organizations, not merely adding AI to human-centered systems—much like factories once had...
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Pseudoliparis Swirei: How the Deepest Fish Ever Recorded Survives Crushing PressureScientists have discovered the deepest fish ever recorded, the hadal snailfish, thriving over 8,200 meters down in the Mariana Trench. This...
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DeepMind’s AlphaGenome: A New AI That Reads Life’s CodeScientists have traditionally referred to DNA as the blueprint to life. Another potent new artificial intelligence (AI) application, the Al...
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Study finds genotyping can detect Covid variants more rapidlyA recent study suggests that genotyping, a technique for analysing genetic differences, can detect new variants of SARS-CoV-2 almost a week...
18 Jan, 2024, 06.12 PM IST
Govt directs all states to conduct genome sequencing of positive Covid cases to check for new variantIn a letter written to additional chief secretaries Principal secretaries and state health state secretaries, Union health secretary Rajesh...
20 Dec, 2022, 07.38 PM IST
Team of scientists from ICAR completes genome sequencing for pomegranateThe team involved in this landmark research comprised Dr. N.V. Singh, Dr. P. Roopa Sowjanya, Dr. Shilpa Parashuram, Dr. P.G. Patil and Dr. ...
26 Sep, 2022, 02.17 PM IST
Covid case detected in Mumbai not XE variant, clarifies governmentA case of the Kappa variant was also detected during a sero survey, the official said, adding the results came in genome sequencing of 376 ...
06 Apr, 2022, 08.48 PM IST
India's first case of coronavirus variant XE detected in MumbaiThe first case of 'XE', a sub-variant of the Omicron variant of coronavirus in India has been detected in Mumbai, as per reports.
06 Apr, 2022, 06.16 PM IST
83 Covid cases of Delta plus variant reported in India till Aug 4: GovtResponding to a question on whether private laboratories are permitted to do genome sequencing of coronavirus, Minister of State for Health...
06 Aug, 2021, 04.52 PM IST
Delta reinfected several hit in first Covid wave: StudyGiven Delta's immune system evasion ability, the study cautioned that strong ‘infection control measures’ and boosting vaccine response wou...
25 Jun, 2021, 12.13 AM IST
80 pc Covid-19 cases in Punjab have UK variant; marriages, farmers' protest reasons behind surge: Dr Harsh VardhanGenomic sequencing is an advanced test that determines the precise genetic information a virus carries as viruses mutate as they multiply a...
06 Apr, 2021, 09.54 PM IST
Genetic code that may help coronavirus survive identified: ResearchersIn the study, published in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, researchers used a new tool to determine what c...
03 Jun, 2020, 03.48 PM IST
New test makes all types of cancer detection easy within minutesThe quick test can detect cancer from blood or biopsy tissues.
06 Dec, 2018, 07.55 PM IST
Supercomputers will aid India in areas ranging from weather forecasting to drug discoveryFrench IT services company Atos won the contract to build the high-performance computers, the first of which it says will be ready in the f...
27 Nov, 2018, 11.51 AM IST
- Wheat genome unravelled: can help in dealing with climate change
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS/Mongabay) It took the best scientific minds from 20 nations, including India, to scale what is considered as the "M...
31 Aug, 2018, 03.22 PM IST
MedGenome to raise Rs 93 crore in second round of funding“We would use these funds to ensure better collaboration with various research institutions across India,“ chairman and CEO Sam Santhosh sa...
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