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In 1983, Kary Mullis imagined copying DNA while driving through California at night: the idea transformed modern genetics foreverWhile cruising through the scenic highways of California, a visionary scientist named Kary Mullis stumbled upon an extraordinary concept th...- Nepal reports first COVID-related death in three months, logs in over new daily 100 casesNepal reports first COVID-19-related death in the last three months with 106 new cases of the virus in the past 24 hours, a week after conf...
- New COVID-19 testing method gives results in one second, scientists sayThis can greatly reduce the cost of testing, the researchers said. The technology can not only detect COVID-19 but can also be applied to o...
- Amid COVID-19 surge, Nepal bans all domestic, international flights"The decision on flight restrictions are in place until May 14," Health Minister Hridayesh Tripathi told the Kathmandu Post. "However, char...
- UP officials told to trace people back from abroad in past 15 daysThe people, who came in the past 15 days from the countries where a new COVID-19 strain has been found, should be quarantined and their con...
- View: It's the end of our wait for vaccine news, now a very different kind of wait beginsWith a coronavirus vaccine now around the proverbial corner, Indrajit Hazra notices a change in the nature of waiting - from a weariness fo...
- Yogi Adityanath government caps price of RT-PCR test by private labsAccording to the new directive, if a patient gives sample at the laboratory or the sample is collected by a hospital and sent to the lab th...
- CM Arvind Kejriwal issues directives to reduce price of RT-PCR test in Delhi"I have directed that the rates of RT PCR tests be reduced in Delhi. Whereas tests are being conducted free of cost in govt establishments,...
- COVID-19: Scientists develop novel method to detect single virus particlesIn the new method, the scientists said a layer of the compound silicon nitride just 50 nanometres (nm) thick has tiny nanopores added. The ...
- Equine Biotech, incubated at IISc, develops indigenous testing kit for Covid-19The test kit, called GlobalTM diagnostic and based on Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), has been approved for use i...
- Rapid antigen test set to be key to Covid strategy nowAround 10 million antigen test kits are expected to be ready by July 15. This move will mark a significant shift in India’s testing strateg...
- Protests against the Nepal government's handling of Covid pick up pace in KathmanduYouth-led protests on the streets of Kathmandu are picking up pace. The protestors called into question the government’s response to Covid-...
- No, S&T’s not just about IT: Hard-hitting lessons from the pandemicThis outbreak is a lesson that technology being besotted with only one application of computational science is dangerous. Over the past dec...
- Karnataka scales up COVID-19 tests 5 times to 1,500 per dayMedical Education Minister Sudhakar K, who is in-charge of all matters related to COVID-19, said said 200-300 real time reverse transcripti...
- WHO says looking into reports of some Covid-19 patients testing positive againSouth Korean officials on Friday reported 91 patients thought cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again. Jeong Eun-kyeong, d...
- With DNA data, biotech cos can build diagnostics: Kiran Mazumdar-ShawPrimers are short pieces of the DNA of a virus that is used for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests that help in reducing the time to dia...
- Coronavirus diagnostic tests sensitive; gene sequencing possible only at government labsConfirmation takes 12-24 hours as the test includes polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and a more sensitive form called reverse-transcription ...
- ‘Delay in recognising bad loans hurts lenders’Gross NPA ratio in the FY18-19 came in at 9.1% as against 11.2% in the year-ago period
- Put-call ratio jump hints at an upcoming Santa rally: AnalystsThe Nifty PCR was 1.47 on Thursday against 1.45 a day earlier.
- Clean banking is new normal for banks, says Rajiv KumarTo deal with the twin balance sheet challenge, he said, the four Rs -- Recognition, Recapitalization, Resolution, and Reform -- were put in...
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