Since January, Congo has reported more than 4,500 suspected mpox cases and nearly 300 deaths, numbers that have roughly tripled from the sa...

A new sub-variant of the coronavirus, named JN.1, has been detected in a woman from Kerala, marking the first case in India. JN.1 is closel...

The giant wave ebbed by mid-April. The virus mutated quickly into a series of sub-variants adept at evading immunity. A recent study in the...

The team also found that lower-grade tumours often develop a new mutation that allows the cells to start dividing more rapidly, potentially...

People who are triple-vaccinated against COVID-19 develop a high-quality antibody response which can neutralise the Omicron variant efficie...

The variant may be more transmissible and better able to evade the body’s immune responses, both to vaccination and to natural infection, t...

The world is in a very "dangerous period" of the Covid-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuin...

Any changes in the viral genetic sequence during replication is known as a mutation and viruses with new mutations are sometimes known as v...

City scientists, who studied these new sub-lineages or mutants, however, say that more research is required to find out if they are more po...

The threat of double and now a triple-mutant Indian strain, along with the deadly UK variant, are believed to be behind the latest surge ac...

Also, more than 11% of samples from across India show “variants of concern”, said experts at research institutes who have done genome seque...

These variants harbour 15 lineage defining mutations. B.1.617, initially termed double mutant, has three new spike protein mutations. Two m...

It has taken just 17 days for the daily case count to rise from 1 lakh on April 4 to over 3 lakh on Wednesday. During this period, cases ha...

“The proportion of B.1.618 has been growing significantly in recent months in Bengal,” said Vinod Scaria, who researches genome mutations a...

The 'Kisan Diwas' or National Farmers Day is observed across the country on this day to celebrate the birthday of Chaudhary Charan Singh, t...

MedGenome has seen the number of samples triple for genetic tests in of samples triple for genetic tests in the last one year.

Kolkata, Sep 26 (IANS) Bolstering the knowhow behind targeted cancer treatment, Indian scientists have offered a new rationale for combinat...