Pancreatic Cancer Turns Off a Key Gene in Order to Grow
THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. Pancreatic cancer turns off one of our most important genes in order to be able to grow …
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Cancer-killing nanorobots ‘armed with lethal weapon’ developed
Swedish scientists have made a groundbreaking advancement in the fight against cancer, creating nanorobots armed with “lethal weapons” designed to exclusively target and annihilate cancer cells. These tiny but mighty …
Scientists find naturally existing DNA editing tool in humans
Bengaluru: Genetic engineering researchers have discovered a powerful tool that can be used to edit genes on a larger scale. This tool will allow researchers to rearrange, recombine, invert, duplicate, …
Scientists find the largest known genome inside a small plant
Last year, Jaume Pellicer led a team of fellow scientists into a forest on Grande Terre, an island east of Australia. They were in search of a fern called Tmesipteris …
Why did Beethoven lose his hearing? A lock of hair holds the key
New Delhi: Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair holds the key to the puzzle that was his host of ailments, hearing loss, and early death. Nearly 200 years after his death, scientists …
The US Is Cracking Down on Synthetic DNA
The White House has issued new rules aimed at companies that manufacture synthetic DNA after years of warnings that a pathogen made with mail-order genetic material could accidentally or intentionally …
Scientist claims this 100-million-year-old creature found in amber, once lived inside dinosaurs
NEW DELHI: Chinese researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper claiming to have found a prehistoric tapeworm partially intact …
How does our brain form long-term memories? By breaking & repairing DNA, US study finds
Bengaluru: DNA damage in the brain and its subsequent repair helps cement long-term memories, a new American study conducted on adult mice has found. The peer-reviewed study, conducted by scientists …
A massive genetic study tells us about Indians’ ancestry; perplexing presence of Neanderthals in it
Bengaluru:Â Scientists have sequenced and analysed the largest genome set yet from South Asia to trace the ancestry of Indians. According to their preprint study, ancestral populations of local hunter-gatherers, Middle …
India Genome Project: What its completion means
New Delhi: India is on track to make history in space with the Gaganyaan mission, but it achieved another milestone Tuesday. The Department of Biotechnology announced the completion of the …