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Research helps to resolve evolutionary origins of the 'platypus of fungi'
Updated : 3 years, 4 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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Scientists turn up spotlight on cells in tissues so RNA could explain dise
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 11 (ANI): A new advance overcomes present limitations in spatial transcriptomics with a DNA nanotechnology-driven method called 'Light-Seq.' Light-Seq allows researchers to 'geotag' the full repertoire of RNA sequences with unique DNA barcodes exclusive to a few cell
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Birdsong reveals rare hybrid coupling 10 million years in the making: Rese
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): A team of researchers was able to use a combination of genomic sequencing and song analysis to identify a rare hybrid bird, whose ancestors haven't shared the same breeding location or lineage for 10 million years.
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Avesthagen consolidates its position with an innovative platform for preci
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 6 (ANI/NewsVoir): Avesthagen Limited, India's pioneering Systems biology genomics company, has launched AVGEN Diagnostics, the first fully integrated end-to-end personalized genetic testing service. The innovative platform employs the latest in NGS seq
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New Monkeypox strain identified in UK
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 2 (ANI): A new strain of Monkeypox has been identified in the UK, the country's health authorities said.
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GenepoweRx and Onco.com collaborate to bring world-class, affordable advan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 27 (ANI/PNN): Advanced genetic sequencing for cancer patients would now become more affordable and easily accessible with the newly announced collaboration between GenepoweRx, India's most trusted Genetic Testing company, and Onco.com, India's leading patient-centri
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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.
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Genetic testing is 'promising' for detecting hundreds of disease agents: S
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 9 (ANI): Based on the outcomes of a new study by the scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine by continuously sequencing many DNA strands found in patient samples, Next Generation Sequencing enables doctors to quickly and precisely identify a single pathogen from among hu
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Study: Dog ancestry traces back to two wolf populations
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): According to the publications in the 'Nature' journal, a recent study conducted by an international team of Francis Crick Institute's archaeologists and geneticists has found that a dog's ancestry can be traced back to at least two prehistoric wolf populations.
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Dogs trace ancestry to two separate wolf populations, study reveals
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 29 (ANI): According to a new study by an international group of geneticists and archaeologists of the Francis Crick Institute, have discovered that the ancestry of dogs can be traced to at least two populations of ancient wolves. The study revealed the answer to the mos
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Research reveals tadpoles develop into frogs, experience remarkable amount
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], June 29 (ANI): Tadpoles have a good underwater vision, but what happens when they develop into frogs and spend most of their time on land? In quest of the solution, scientists from York University and a number of other institutions discovered that tadpoles' eyes go through
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INSACOG finds COVID-19's Omicron sub-lineages BA.2, BA.2.38 have caused sp
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 18 (ANI): India's COVID genome sequencing facility, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) on Friday has reviewed the genomic surveillance data, where they have found that Omicron sub-lineages majorly BA.2, BA.2.38 and in some parts of the country BA.4
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