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IFFCO signs pact with IIT Delhi for innovative projects including Nanotech
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): The Nano Biotechnology Research Centre (NBRC), the research and development unit of the fertiliser cooperative Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited, has signed an MoU with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi for research consultancy, knowledg
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Fermenta Biotech Limited bags India's Best place to work in Biotechnology
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 28 (ANI/ThePRTree): Fermenta Biotech Limited ('Fermenta') today announced its recognition as one of India's Best Workplaces in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals for the year 2021.
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Boost to France India Relations: Indian-origin Diagnostics company GeneSto
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI/PR Newswire): This is yet another story of Atmanirbharta flourishing in India's biotechnology sector, even as the COVID-19 pandemic brought the traditional supply chains from East-Asia to a grinding halt. GeneStore, a biotechnology company focused on infectiou
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Fungal growth in plants can be inhibited by modified yeast
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
California [US], July 16 (ANI): About 70-80 per cent of crop losses due to microbial diseases are caused by fungi. Fungicides are key weapons in agriculture's arsenal, but they pose environmental risks. Over time, fungi also develop a resistance to fungicides, leading growers on an endless q
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Sunflower oil properties can be predicted by genetic analysis
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 12 (ANI): During a new study, Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the University of Southern California performed a genetic analysis of a Russian sunflower collection.
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Nanomaterials' ability to cross blood-brain barrier can be influenced by t
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): The results of a new study suggested that nanomaterials found in consumer and health-care products can pass through the bloodstream to the brain side of a blood-brain barrier model with varying ease depending on their shape.
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Nanomaterials' ability to cross blood-brain barrier can be influenced by t
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 6 (ANI): The findings of a new study suggest that nanomaterials found in consumer and health-care products can pass through the bloodstream to the brain side of a blood-brain barrier model with varying ease depending on their shape.
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Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine granted emergency use nod in India
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Cambridge [UK]/New Delhi, June 29 (ANI): US biotechnology company Moderna on Tuesday announced that India has granted permission for its COVID-19 vaccine to be imported into the country for restricted use in an emergency situation.
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SENSIT rapid COVID-19 Ag exhibits 86 pc sensitivity, 100 pc specificity
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): The SENSIT rapid COVID-19 Ag Kit, developed by Ubio Biotechnology Systems Pvt. Ltd and supported by DBT-BIRAC under the aegis of COVID-19 Research Consortium, exhibit sensitivity and specificity of 86 per cent and 100 per cent, according to the Ministry of S
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Novavax's vaccine, also produced by SII, found 90 pc effective against COV
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 14 (ANI): US Biotechnology company Novavax on Monday announced that its Covid-19 vaccine provides 100 per cent protection against moderate and severe symptoms of the disease and 90.4 per cent efficacy overall in phase 3 trials.
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Researchers find algorithm to better CRISPR gene editing
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 10 (ANI): While researchers had first engineered CRISPR as a gene-editing technology for bacterial, plant, animal and human cells it eventually became a Nobel prize-winning revolution. The technology's potential spans from curing genetically disposed diseases to applica
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DBT-NII receives Trademark for India's first indigenous tumour antigen SPA
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): India's first indigenous tumour antigen, SPAG9 discovered by Dr Anil Suri, head of Cancer Research Program at Delhi based National Institute of Immunology (NII), an Autonomous Institute of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), in 1998 has received the trademark
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