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Odisha government issues Covid advisory after new Omicron BF.7 strain dete
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Odisha government on Wednesday issued instructions for surveillance and whole genome sequencing (WGS) for Covid-19 management in view of the recent explosion of Covid cases in China, Japan, the US, South Korea and Brazil and detection of four confirmed cases of the new Omicron BF.7 strain in
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No mass Covid testing in state now, will wait for results of genome sequen
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Maharashtra Health Secretary Sanjay Khandare on Wednesday divulged the action plans to be followed by the state to curb covid cases following the covid advisory, released by Union Ministry to all States and Union Territories. The Centre in its advisory requested States and UTs to send sample
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Centre directs States to conduct genome sequencing of COVID positive sampl
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday requested States and Union Territories to send samples of all COVID-19 positive cases to INSACOG labs to track new variants.
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Study finds how humans continue to evolve with new genes
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Even though we diverged from our chimpanzee ancestors about 7 million years ago, we are still evolving today. The human lineage has 155 novel genes that spontaneously developed from little fragments of our DNA. Some of these novel "microgenes" are thought to be linked to diseases that are un
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Dr Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurates ICMR facility for research in Hyderabad
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday inaugurated ICMR-NARFBR (National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research) at Genome Valley in Hyderabad.
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Research finds how intensive agriculture turned wild plant into pervasive
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New research in Science is showing how the rise of modern agriculture has turned a North American native plant, the common water hemp, into a problematic agricultural weed.
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AI may predict diseases in humans: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
according to a research published in the journal named "Nature Machine Intelligence", Artificial Intelligence may potentially predict the incidence of diseases someday.
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Study finds link between genetic mutation and childhood glaucoma
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A team of scientists has discovered a new genetic mutation that maybe a root cause of severe cases of childhood glaucoma, a devastating condition that runs in families and can rob children of their vision by 3 years of age.
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Genetic mutation led to development of severe childhood glaucoma: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers discovered a new genetic mutation that may be a root cause of severe cases of childhood glaucoma.
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Scientists link rare genetic phenomenon to neuron function, schizophrenia
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Using state-of-the-art whole-genome sequencing and machine learning techniques, researchers conducted one of the first and the largest investigations of tandem repeats in schizophrenia, elucidating their contribution to the development of this devastating disease.
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Research helps to resolve evolutionary origins of the 'platypus of fungi'
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
About 600 seemingly disparate fungi that never quite found a fit along the fungal family tree has been shown to have a common ancestor, according to a University of Alberta-led research team that used genome sequencing to give these peculiar creatures their own classification home.
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New AI blood test technology to detect liver cancer
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A new artificial intelligence blood testing technology developed and used by researchers of Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center to successfully detect lung cancer in a 2021 study has now detected more than 80% of liver cancers in a new study of 724 people.
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