Backing the 12-16 weeks gap between the two doses of Covishield in the country, the chief investigator of the AstraZeneca vaccine clinical trials on Friday said that the level of protection provided by one dose of the preventive significantly increases in the second and third months after the jab.
The Drugs Control General of India has permitted emergency use of Covid vaccine Sputnik V with certain conditions, clearing the way for a third vaccine in addition to Covishield and Covaxin. Besides, the government on Tuesday also fast-tracked emergency approval for other jabs. Here is what the vaccines are all about:
After test reports suggested that the person has a "blind vagina", doctors decided to conduct Karyotyping test, which revealed that her chromosome complement was 'XY' and not 'XX', as found in a woman.
'We believe that India is capable of producing the Gamaleya vaccine and it is very important to say that those partnerships to produce the vaccine will enable us to cover the demand that we have'
People who are inactive are more likely to develop colon cancer, says Roy De Souza.
Researchers have identified genes that perform a key role in the ageing process, boosting efforts of scientists aiming to possibly extend the natural human life span. The study appearing in the journal Genome Research looked for genes that control the ageing process in two primitive organisms, yeast cells and nematode worms -- separated by 1.5 billion years of evolution.
Scientists have discovered a gene that ups the risk of obesity, a breakthrough which they claim offers insight into why some people put on weight while others with similar lifestyles stay slim. A British-led team has found that people who inherit two copies of the variant, which lies close to a gene called MC4R, weigh an average of 1.5 kg more than those without the genetic variation, the Nature Genetics journal reported.
Americans Mario R Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin J Evans won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday.
The identification of host dependency factors mediating virus infection may provide key insights into effective molecular targets for developing broadly acting antiviral therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2 and other deadly coronavirus strains, according to the researchers.
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Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, the hormone that regulates blood glucose.
Zydus plans to initiate the clinical trials of ZyCoV-D in July 2020 across multiple sites in India. In animal studies the vaccine was found to elicit a strong immune response in multiple animal species like mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits.
According to the American and Spanish scientists, who detailed their work in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the gene discovery may pave the way for producing seedless varieties of cherimoya, sugar apple and perhaps other fruit crops.
However, scientists peering into the DNA of people from Asia, Africa and Europe found that large segments of their DNA varied greatly. Scientists now believe that people may differ by 10-12 percent genetically.
His 9-gold athletic haul at the Olympics remains unrivalled with Usain Bolt coming close with 8. Raj Kishore Mishra, former joint secretary at the sports ministry, salutes Carl Lewis, 'Sportsman of the 20th Century' on his 60th birthday.
Just in case you missed it, Audrey Hepburn's granddaughter Emma Ferrer has made her modelling debut. (And she has her granny's good looks.)
Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Life Sciences is to invest $63.2 million for a controlling stake in UK's biopharmaceutical company GeneMedix Plc.
Nostalgia in the time of Covid is proving to be big business, observes Aditi Phadnis.
One of the causes of rigorous hair fall is extensive over styling and hair treatments.
Till the time I play sport, I'll train like a maniac, the Indian cricket captain tells national football skipper Sunil Chhetri in an Instagram Live chat, credits trainer Shanker Basu for his physical transformation.
Tanden, president of the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress, would have led a key economic post that oversees the production of the President's proposed budget for his agenda if she had been confirmed.
Pune's Mylab Discovery Solutions' CoviSelf, which gives results in 15 minutes, gets ICMR nod
Woods said amputation "was on the table" during the three-week hospital recovery in California.
Cancer cells thrive in acidic environments.
Anti-GM voices have inadvertently spurred farm scientists to support the use of gene manipulation for producing stress-resistant crops.
'We should start giving this vaccination immediately to doctors, nurses etc and also to the elderly.'
Bayern Munich's stellar season has been capped off with being crowned champions of Europe.
Their research may be significant for cancer treatment too.
Those who ditched the sun, a study has revealed, looked up to 20 years younger.
According to a doctor unless the virus is cultured or gene sequencing done, it will be difficult to determine whether it is a different strain of the virus that has infected the person the second time.
The nature of the adverse reaction and when the development took place were not initially clear, although the participant is expected to recover, said an individual familiar with the matter.
IIT Delhi is the first academic institute to have obtained the ICMR approval for a real-time PCR- based diagnostic assay. The development also comes against the backdrop of the Indian Council of Medical Research halting the testing for COVID-19 cases through China-made test kits because of massive variation in test results, compounding the challenge to check and contain the pandemic.
A new Chinese computer system that can make 93 quadrillions calculations per second has claimed the top spot on the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
One thing is clear, that anyone can be infected, Milind wrote. 'Even if you have had the vaccine,' he pointed out.
The American Association of Indian Scientists in Cancer Research at its 15th annual meeting at the Lion's Club in San Diego, California, presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr Inder Verma, senior professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in San Diego, California, and the American Cancer Society professor of molecular biology.
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'The Sena can quickly reduce most solutions to violence.' 'When in power, it will revert to this gene which is coded into it and we will no doubt produce entertaining and frightening moments,' says Aakar Patel.
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