Anti-GM voices have inadvertently spurred farm scientists to support the use of gene manipulation for producing stress-resistant crops.
Their research may be significant for cancer treatment too.
Those who ditched the sun, a study has revealed, looked up to 20 years younger.
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.
Cancer cells thrive in acidic environments.
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.
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 of the causes of rigorous hair fall is extensive over styling and hair treatments.
Nostalgia in the time of Covid is proving to be big business, observes Aditi Phadnis.
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.
'We should start giving this vaccination immediately to doctors, nurses etc and also to the elderly.'
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.
In their ground-breaking study, a team at Pennsylvania University made laboratory rodents HIV resistant by sabotaging a gene in blood cells that the deadly virus normally infects, the Nature Biotechnology journal reported.
An American team of scientists, lead by Dr John Brigande of the Oregon Hearing Research Centre, Portland, have show that by implanting a gene that regulates hair cell growth, Atoh1, into the mouse inner ear while the mouse is still in the womb, new hair cells are made.
Bayern Munich's stellar season has been capped off with being crowned champions of Europe.
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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.
Pune's Mylab Discovery Solutions' CoviSelf, which gives results in 15 minutes, gets ICMR nod
Certain variations in a gene that helps regulate response to stress shows why some children are able to bounce back from trauma and abuse, while others suffer with depression and mental problems throughout their lives. Adults who had been abused but didn't have the shielding variations in the gene had twice the symptoms of moderate to severe depression, compared to those with the protective variants, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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.
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.
Bollywood doesn't go abroad only for outdoor shoots!
Monsanto has envisaged the transfer of a gene from a blue flower to the cotton plant to produce blue cotton. Monsanto's current Blue Cotton programme is aimed at the jeans market ($10 bn in the US and 800 mn in the UK) and involves the transfer of a gene from a blue flower to the cotton plant. Coloured cotton is also being produced not only by conventional genetic selection but also by direct DNA engineering. Naturally coloured cotton is a new way to preserve the eco system.
Woods said amputation "was on the table" during the three-week hospital recovery in California.
'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.
Scientists disclose a major leap in the ability to identify genes that cause the disease.
One thing is clear, that anyone can be infected, Milind wrote. 'Even if you have had the vaccine,' he pointed out.
Scientists from the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter and the University of Oxford, who conducted the study, say that people with two copies of the FTO gene variant have a 70 per cent higher risk of being obese than those without it.
The Rangoon actor replies to her co-star's open letter with her own saying that the debate is exasperating, but healthy.
Clearly,Trump will have a serious problem if it transpires that COVID-19's grandma, grandpa and great grandpa are actually domiciled in the US, notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
With her mother and father's celebrated acting genes, are you surprised that Shweta Bachchan looks a natural on screen?
A new study from the Child Development Laboratory at the University of Maryland shows that shyness in kids could relate to the manner in which a stress-related gene in children interacts with being raised by stressed-out parents.
This and more news from the world of showbiz in this latest edition of our glamour round-up.
'There are fossils to indicate that there has been a gradual evolution of various body parts leading to very complex organisms like vertebrates, apes and humans.'
'I am not disappointed with whatever roles come my way. I feel disappointment is a sign of ungratefulness.'
The doctor said that the US president is borderline obese.
