What Chernobyl’s Wolves Learned to Survive That Scientists Still Don’t Fully UnderstandWildlife thrives in Chernobyl's exclusion zone. Grey wolves there show remarkable genetic changes. These wolves have developed resistance t...
11 May, 2026, 03.35 AM IST
Guardant Health to launch blood-based cancer test in India with Zydus LifesciencesGuardant Health is set to introduce a groundbreaking blood test in India for early cancer detection. This multi-cancer test, co-marketed by...
05 May, 2026, 10.37 PM IST
‘Cicada’ COVID variant BA 3.2 spreads to 25 states — what symptoms you should not ignoreThe BA.3.2 COVID-19 subvariant, known as “Cicada,” is spreading across the United States, with cases reported in 25 states and over 20 coun...
31 Mar, 2026, 05.41 PM IST
Mumbai property owners get relief: No need to visit collector’s office as mutation process goes onlineMumbai property owners rejoice as the tedious process of property mutation is now entirely online. Maharashtra minister Chandrashekhar Bawa...
27 Mar, 2026, 02.51 PM IST
New ‘Cicada’ COVID variant hits US: What BA.3.2 means and why experts are watchingThe BA.3.2 COVID-19 variant, nicknamed “Cicada,” has emerged in the United States and multiple countries, prompting close monitoring by the...
26 Mar, 2026, 06.45 PM IST
Eclipse Mutation in Grow a Garden: How to unlock one of the rarest power-upsEclipse Mutation in Grow a Garden: Widely regarded as one of the most powerful and visually impressive upgrades in Grow a Garden, the Eclip...
16 Aug, 2025, 10.30 PM IST
SARS-CoV-2 mutations: Why coronavirus might still have some tricks to pullThe SARS-CoV-2 genome is made up of 30,000 individual bases. The rate at which mutations arise is typically expressed as the probability th...
12 Aug, 2021, 11.06 AM IST
The SARS-COV-2 variants at play: All you need to knowAny changes in the viral genetic sequence during replication is known as a mutation and viruses with new mutations are sometimes known as v...
09 May, 2021, 09.48 AM IST
‘Existing vaccines effective against new coronavirus variant’The Gupta Lab under the Cambridge Institute has been studying the evolution of SARS CoV 2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in patients in r...
03 May, 2021, 07.50 AM IST
'Covaxin, Covishield both work against Covid's UK strain'Both Covaxin and Covishield — the two vaccines against Covid in use in India — are effective against the UK variant, which is one of the tw...
13 Apr, 2021, 11.46 AM IST
Coronavirus mutating much faster than before, finds Indian Institute of Science studyTheir recent study, published in the Journal of Proteome Research, has identified multiple mutations and unique proteins in isolates of SAR...
05 Mar, 2021, 10.17 AM IST
Indian scientists reveal new mutations, proteins of novel coronavirusThe analysis suggests that the virus is now mutating faster than before the three Bengaluru isolates had 27 mutations in their genomes with...
04 Mar, 2021, 07.53 PM IST
Novel method to predict emergence of worrisome coronavirus variantsThe study posted in the platform bioRxiv, and yet-to-be peer-reviewed, assessed 3,11,795 genome sequences of the coronavirus spike protein ...
26 Feb, 2021, 04.31 PM IST
Here's what we do and don't know about new coronavirus mutationsOne mutation -- variant B117, which likely emerged in southeastern England in September, according to Imperial College London -- has now be...
04 Jan, 2021, 10.22 PM IST
Mutation in virus may hamper vaccine progressA study published in a medical journal has revealed that SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, has undergone multiple mutations in its "spike ...
02 Sep, 2020, 11.05 AM IST
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16 Nov, 2017, 07.42 PM IST
Cause of malaria drug resistance in Southeast Asia identifiedGrowing resistance to malaria drugs in Southeast Asia is caused by a single mutated gene inside the disease-causing parasite, according to ...
12 Dec, 2014, 04.19 PM IST