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BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...
A giant echidna fossil sat in a museum drawer for over a century, before revealing Australia’s lost giantsA forgotten fossil, overlooked for over a century, has revealed crucial insights into Australia's extinct giant echidnas. This re-evaluatio...
AI helping doctors spend more time with patients, cut down on paperwork: Stanford Medicine’s Priya SinghIn an interview with The Economic Times, Priya Singh, Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Associate Dean at Stanford Medicine, talks about ho...
Gujarat becomes first state in India to launch Tribal Genome Sequencing ProjectGujarat has launched India's first Tribal Genome Sequencing Project, aiming to improve healthcare for tribal communities. The initiative, s...
Govt to recast Insacog as Covid cases declineThe Indian government is considering restructuring Insacog, the consortium monitoring genomic variations in SARS-CoV-2, due to the decline ...
India Covid panel head clarifies on Kerala death amid JN.1 subvariant scareIndia reported 260 new COVID cases, including one death in Kerala, where the JN.1 subvariant was recently detected. The center issued an ad...
New project aims to set up world's largest African ancestry database for genetic studiesScientists are embarking on a project to collect genetic material from 500,000 people of African ancestry in order to create the world's la...
436 cases of XBB1.16.1 mutated sub-variant found in India: INSACOGThe INSACOG data has shown that 2,735 cases of the XBB1.16 variant have been found in a total of 24 states and Union Territories. India has...
Omicron subvariants BA.5.2, BF.7 responsible for latest COVID outbreak in China: WHOIn a statement, WHO said that the Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) held a meeting with the Chinese Center for Disease C...
Max Healthcare partners with genomics biotech firm AnuvaMax Healthcare on Tuesday said it has entered into a partnership with genomics biotech firm Anuva to conduct genomic-based research on vari...
Delhi: Omicron found in 97 pc samples taken from deceased patients from Jan to MarchGenome sequencing of 578 samples collected from the deceased showed 560 of them had the Omicron variant. The remaining 18 (three percent) h...
View: With the advent of AI in healthcare, moving from data to actionable insights will become easierVarious studies have proved that integration of multiomics data can help identify multiple pathways and processes that drive a disease. On ...
As India braces for third Covid-19 wave, concerns around availability, quality and consistency of data remainExperts say that while work needs to be done on sequencing and accessibility of data, the focus must be on disease surveillance and ramping...
Genomic sequencing: Here's how researchers identify omicron and other COVID-19 variantsWhen an organism replicates, it makes a copy of its entire genome to pass on to its offspring. Sometimes errors in the copying process can ...
Prenatal test developed with Chinese military stores gene dataThe report is the first to reveal that the company collaborated with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to develop and improve the test, ta...
Almost third of COVID-19 samples show mutation, but not more severe disease: WHOThe UN agency has so far collected 60,000 samples of the disease, she said.
China shares virus genome data, officials suggest European strainChina, which had been under pressure to make the data public sooner rather than later as Covid-19 cases mount in the country's capital, sai...
Genome sequencing: A solution to India's problem of rare genetic diseasesA genome is a person’s complete set of DNA, including all genes with more than 3 billion DNA base pairs. Genome sequencing will lead to pre...
India to launch its 1st human genome cataloguing projectDepartment of Biotechnology to rope in 22 partners for project that will help develop better therapies.
Startup Positive Bioscience uses genetic testing to help prevent and cure diseasesThis Mumbai-based startup employs genetic testing to help prevent and cure diseases.