Human urine becomes option for farmers in fertilizer supply crunchFrom chicken muck to human urine-based products and microbial solutions, growers are improvising to maintain crop yields. This shift, while...
23 May, 2026, 10.31 AM IST
Biotech boom: More Indian students head abroad for biotechnology degreesIndian students are increasingly pursuing biotechnology studies abroad, driven by growing opportunities in gene therapies, vaccines, and we...
06 Jul, 2025, 06.39 AM IST
Nvidia-backed AI startup SandboxAQ creates new data to speed up drug discoverySandboxAQ, an AI startup originating from Alphabet's Google and backed by Nvidia, has released a substantial dataset to accelerate drug dis...
18 Jun, 2025, 06.51 PM IST
Wadhwani Foundation announces Rs 1,400-crore MoUs with ANRF, IITs, AICTE to promote R&DThe Wadhwani Foundation has announced MoUs worth Rs 1,400 crore. These agreements aim to boost research and innovation in India. The founda...
29 Apr, 2025, 08.05 PM IST
Colossal Bio in search to bring lost species back to the futureIndia's rich biodiversity offers unique opportunities for Colossal Biosciences to revive extinct species like the woolly mammoth, thylacine...
30 Jan, 2025, 12.23 AM IST
Enzene Biosciences raises $50 million to expand ops in India, US marketsIn a press statement, Enzene said it would leverage the fresh funds to enhance its manufacturing capabilities and drive expansion in its co...
30 Jan, 2023, 11.04 AM IST
Synthetic biology startup D-Nome raises $1.5 million in funding from Ankur Capital, Campus FundD-Nome's focus is to build rapid point-of-care diagnostics for human infectious diseases and other applications using genomics and syntheti...
21 Jan, 2023, 08.56 PM IST
India's bio-economy grew 8 times under PM Modi since 2014: Jitendra SinghAddressing an 'International Conference on Emerging Trends in Biosciences and Chemical Technology- 2022' in Jammu, Singh said the biotech s...
03 Dec, 2022, 06.44 PM IST
New biotech startups: Maharashtra emerges on top, Telangana & Karnataka followMaharashtra is home to 966 biotech startups, the largest number in any state.
27 Jul, 2022, 03.20 PM IST
Absolute raises $100 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital, Alpha Wave, Tiger GlobalLast year, Absolute Foods had raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital’s incubation programme, Surge, and two angel investors: Nadir Godrej a...
05 May, 2022, 09.52 PM IST
Biotech startup immunitoAI raises $1 million in seed fundingThe company provides services to pharmaceutical companies that use artificial intelligence to discover and identify antibodies. Antibody th...
09 Sep, 2021, 06.39 PM IST
Covid-sniffing robots offer testing alternativeThe technology fuses neurons with a silicon chip to create a “smell cyborg” capable of detecting scents ranging from explosives to pathogen...
02 Oct, 2020, 10.04 AM IST
VCs plowed a record $9.3 billion into AI startups last yearThe surge comes after three years of steadily increasing investment, with the average annual increase from 2015 to 2017 at 28 percent.
09 Jan, 2019, 10.50 AM IST
Find growth by seeking out 'boring' problemsYou will get much love when you say you are a startup in any of these fields from entrepreneurs who are your peers and possibly investors.
05 May, 2018, 11.06 AM IST
- HSI, CCMB join hands to develop laboratory grown meat
Hyderabad, March 28 (IANS) The Humane Society International/India on Wednesdasy said it has joined hands with the Centre for Cellular and M...
28 Mar, 2018, 04.52 PM IST
Karnataka aims at being bio-economic power house of world: SiddaramaiahAbout 26% of the Biotech revenues of the country, particularly in terms of exports, are generated by the Biotech Industry in Karnataka, he ...
09 Feb, 2015, 04.55 PM IST
- Viruses turn out to be new apps of biology
Synthetic biology uses synthesised DNA to create biological functions not found in nature.
25 Jun, 2012, 01.22 AM IST