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Sequencing results of Delhi travellers for Omicron awaited
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 1 (ANI): The genome sequencing of four Covid-19 positive international travellers is awaited to ascertain if they carried the Omicron variant when they landed in Delhi on Wednesday.
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Omicron: Passenger from Zambia tests positive for COVID in Pune, genome se
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], November 30 (ANI): Amid the scare of new COVID-19 variant Omicron, a person who returned to Pune from Zambia on November 25 has tested positive for the COVID-19.
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Maharashtra: A South Africa returnee tests positive for COVID; samples wil
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 29 (ANI): A person, who returned from South Africa to Dombivli, has been tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, said the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC).
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Researchers take new approach to fight against COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Durham [UK], November 27 (ANI): For a normal person, the loops, kinks and folds in the single strand of RNA that makes up the coronavirus genome might look like a bowl of spaghetti. However, to researchers like Amanda Hargrove, who is a chemistry professor at Duke University, the complex sha
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Sponges can tell us about evolution of brain: Study
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], November 13 (ANI): The neurons in a brain communicate via synapses. These connections between cells lie at the heart of brain function and are regulated by several different genes. Sponges do not have these synapses, but their genome still encodes many of the synaptic genes
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Farmer who conserved, preserved medicinal plants gets ICAR award
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Shivamogga (Karnataka) [India], November 9 (ANI): A 64-year-old farmer from Manchale village in Sagar Taluk of Shivamogga district has been selected for the National Genome Saviour award this year for conserving more than 200 medicinal plants and preserving 30 varieties in his small agricult
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Mumbai, Bangalore and London named among World's top startup hubs
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 24 (ANI/NewsVoir): London, Mumbai and Bangalore have featured among the world's top startup hubs, according to a comprehensive ranking of international startup hubs compiled by Startup Genome for its annual Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021.
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Kerala-based startup comes up with genome-based technology to predict crit
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], September 15 (ANI): A Kerala-based startup has come up with genome-based technology that uses saliva to analyse a person's genetic disposition to predict critical diseases, to which an individual is prone to, thereby preventing it through precision medici
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COVID-19: PM Modi emphasises need for constant genome sequencing to monito
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 11 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday emphasised the need for constant genome sequencing to monitor the emergence of coronavirus mutants.
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Researchers develop engineered 'mini' CRISPR genome editing system
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
California [US], September 7 (ANI): CRISPR gene editing's common analogy is that it works like molecular scissors, cutting out select sections of DNA. Now, assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, Stanley Qi, though likes that analogy, thinks it's time to reimagine CRISP
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Genome sequencing by Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium progressively i
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): The Central government on Monday refuted the allegation that genome sequencing by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) has declined sharply while adding that sample sequencing has progressively increased.
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Genome-editing strategy developed for potential Alzheimer's disease therap
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong, August 18 (ANI): An international research team led by scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a novel strategy using brain-wide genome-editing technology that can reduce Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathologies in genetically modified
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