Search For "genome"
Researchers find domestication history of bananas that reveals mystery anc
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 7 (ANI): People on the island of New Guinea are said to have cultivated bananas 7,000 years ago. However, the history of banana domestication is convoluted, and their categorization is widely discussed, as the borders between species and subspecies are sometimes amb
Read More
Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo receives Nobel Prize in Medicine
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], October 3 (ANI): Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 2022 was awarded to Svante Paabo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution, announced the award-giving organisation on Monday.
Read More
Exposing the evolutionary weak spots of the human genome: Research
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 27 (ANI): Mutations can drastically help or hurt the odds of an organism surviving and reproducing. Researchers have created a computer program called ExtRaINSIGHT that tracks the history of harmful mutations throughout human evolution. They've discovered several r
Read More
Potential of precision genome editing in treating inherited retinal diseas
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): Researchers explain how precision genome editing agents have enabled precise gene correction and disease rescue in inherited retinal diseases (IRDs).
Read More
Study sheds light on blood cells' precancerous 'clonal expansion'
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], September 22 (ANI): According to a study co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, the New York Genome Center, Harvard Medical School, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a typical, spontaneous mutation in blood stem cells, which has been linked to h
Read More
A.2 lineage of Monkeypox is mutating, slow and sharp alert: ICMR study
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR ) has analysed the complete genome sequences of Monkeypox cases from Kerala and Delhi from July to August 2022 and found that the genome sequences from India covering 90-99 per cent genome were found to be
Read More
ICGA Foundation appoints Dr Suveera Dhup as Chief Operating Officer
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], August 30 (ANI/PRNewswire): The Indian Cancer Genome Atlas (ICGA) Foundation, a not-for-profit, public-private-philanthropic partnership, announced today the appointment of Dr Suveera Dhup as its Chief Operating Officer, effective August 2022. Dr Suveera will over
Read More
Researchers develop a novel method to unveil hidden genome
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 25 (ANI): Thousands of short RNA sequences that code for microproteins and peptides have been identified, opening new avenues for disease research and drug development.
Read More
NARFBR Hyderabad will become global biomedical research centre: Union Mini
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], August 17 (ANI): Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday visited the National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research (NARFBR) at Genome Valley in Hyderabad which is being established as a testing centre for various vaccines and medicines in India and
Read More
Providing a favourable start up ecosystem
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI/Mediawire): For several decades, the US has been dominating in the start-up ecosystem space. Six out of the top 10 global start-up ecosystem has been from the United States of America alone. According to a report published by the Global Ecosystem Report by S
Read More
Omicron's new sub-variant with more transmissibility detected in Delhi
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): A new sub-variant of COVID's Omicron variant was detected in New Delhi, according to an official on Wednesday.
Read More
How mutation functions in the brain, affects anxiety and sociality: Study
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 6 (ANI): New research using genome editing technology has allowed scientists to create a model and assess a gene mutation associated with neuropsychiatric disorders in humans. The study has revealed how the mutation functions in the brain and affects anxiety and socia
Read More