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In 1869, a Swiss physician-cum-biochemist while checking pus-filled surgical bandages made this remarkable discovery accidently: How Friedrich Miescher’s DNA discovery changed scienceIn 1869, a Swiss physician-cum-biochemist while checking pus-filled surgical bandages made this remarkable discovery accidently when Friedr...
India's TB fight gets a boost: New Made-in-India diagnostic tests cut cost & timeIndia's ICMR has validated two new indigenous TB diagnostic tools from Huwel Lifesciences. The Quantiplus MTB FAST kit offers cheaper, open...
China eases covid restrictions after protests: Moves closer to scrapping zero-Covid policyThe sudden relaxation of the rules also sparked concerns that the daily virus cases which were averaging around 30,000 a day could increase...
35 in China infected by 'Langya' virus; here's all you need to know about itA total of 35 human infections related to the Langya henipavirus has found in China's Shandong and Henan provinces, which can be transmitte...
Beijing orders COVID-19 tests for its 21 million people; Shanghai reports 52 more deathsThe Chinese capital, which is battling the spread of the Omicron variant in the city, similar to Shanghai, has ordered mass testing from Tu...
China daily local COVID cases hit two-year highChina's current case count is far fewer than those of many other countries, but the growing number could complicate Beijing's "dynamic-clea...
China begins mass testing for COVID-19 cases in Nanjing city after new virus clusterNine of the workers were diagnosed as confirmed cases and five as asymptomatic carriers, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.The remainin...
Study finds new testing method that can diagnose coronavirus in just 30 minutesThe test is as accurate as the current PCR diagnostic method.
Are the kids safe? Children may not be as immune to Covid-19 as we thinkData on children as sources of coronavirus spread are sparse.
COVID-19: China begins mass testing in Beijing as 67 new cases appearIn a bid to stem the spread of the contagion, the authorities in Beijing have conducted the nucleic acid test on 29,386 people who had visi...
China vulnerable to another COVID-19 wave due to lack of immunity, says top health advisorDoctor Zhong Nanshan, senior medical advisor of the Chinese government on Saturday was quoted in an exclusive CNN report as saying: "The ma...
China reports 21 new COVID-19 cases, Wuhan steps up mass testing for infectionsChina's National Health Commission (NHC) said that of the eight new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported on Friday, six were imported infectio...
Wuhan to test entire population after new virus cluster: State mediaOfficials had been ordered to submit by noon on Tuesday plans to administer nucleic acid tests on all residents in the city of 11 million p...
Government picks IIT, Bennett University for Covid fightIn order to urgently develop “safe and effective biomedical solutions” against Covid-19, the department of biotechnology (DBT) under the sc...
COVID-19: China declares Wuhan low-risk areaChina has classified the coronavirus epicentre Wuhan as a low-risk area, days after it revised the city's death toll by 50 per cent, even a...
- Google doodle honours Indian-American biochemist
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) Google on Tuesday honoured Indian-American biochemist and Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana, known as the first sci...
Google honours Indian-American scientist Har Gobind Khorana with doodle on 96th birth anniversaryKhorana is famous for his Nobel-Prize winning research on the cell's genetic code.
- Microsoft plans to store data in DNA
New York, May 27 (IANS) Microsoft is planning to start storing its data on strands of DNA within the next few years, the company's computer...
Building blocks of life may have originated from cometsThey propose the first realistic scenario for the formation of this key compound, which had never been detected in meteorites or cometary i...
Nanoneedles can generate new blood vesselsThe researchers are now aiming to develop a material like a flexible bandage that can incorporate the nanoneedles.