Indian scientists working to unravel rare type of diarrhoea

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science are developing a novel transgenic mouse which will express the human GUCY2C protein, a receptor for …

Phylogenetic tools can help track COVID-19 variants faster. Here's how

Studying the evolutionary path of the virus can help countries assess their vaccine strategy

Coronavirus variants: why being more transmissible rather than more deadly isn’t good news

At the heart of this assertion lies an old foe that has plagued us right from the start of this pandemic: exponential growth

Can science explain blue skin of Lord Krishna?

Religion interprets blue skin as the aura of a spiritual body; science considers it a rare genetic disorder 

Sure, cancer mutates, but it has other ways to resist treatment

Cancer is a disease of our genes, but resistance to therapy might go beyond cancer mutations. The DNA stays the same,…

IMTech Chandigarh to start novel coronavirus genome sequencing

Two other institutes under CSIR already on the job

Scientists look to mathematics to make cancer treatment more effective

The model-based treatment protocols will be based on accurate calculations, thus avoiding the preventable and uncomfortable side-effects of …

No evidence to show CRISPR babies will die early: Scientists

The erroneous conclusion, made earlier, was caused by technical errors in how the mutation was identified in a population-health database

Alkaloid from black pepper shows promising results against neurological disorder

Piperine can be used as therapeutic agent Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome 

Coronavirus genome is like a shipping label that lets epidemiologists track it

Online databases have been collecting SARS-CoV-2 genomic nucleotide sequences since mid-December. Whenever a patient tests positive for the virus,…

Behind Ethiopia’s surge in COVID-19 cases

Africa’s second-most populous nation has become the fifth-most affected country on the continent

COVID-19: Isolated virus mutation found in India raises alarm

The mutated strain could capsize global vaccine development efforts, according to researchers

Coronavirus mutation is not as scary as it sounds

Most mutations lead to no beneficial change in the protein properties at all. In fact, mutations that change the properties of a protein are more …

Bright and black

Female tigers at the Similipal reserve in Odisha are increasingly giving birth to black or melanistic breeds and catching rare worldwide attention

Ebola virus is mutating, say scientists

Several asymptomatic cases detected, which leads to disease spreading more rapidly

Know the Delta: A game of hide and seek

Should we be studying the variants more?

Is SARS-CoV-2 becoming more stable? A new study tracks virus’ evolution

The virus also showed signs of stabilising around some proteins, according to the study 

COVID-19 update: India overtakes Brazil as 2nd worst-hit country

A few government and private hospitals will again be converted into fully COVID-19 facilities, said Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

India rejects MIT’s claims about swine flu virus mutation

Researchers, however, call for better surveillance to gather more scientific data that can determine whether mutations are causing the current …

Dismal figures: ‘India sequenced less than 1% of total COVID-19 samples in nearly 3 months’

Lack of funds, difficulty in getting samples among reasons for poor numbers

Health ministry confirms 2 more coronavirus variants in India

Uptick in cases in 5 states cannot be linked to these variants as of now, said NITI Aayog member VK Paul 

Mutations that make malaria drugs ineffective discovered

Gene kelch13 associated with malaria resistance

Understanding zoonotic diseases: Is COVID-19 Disease X that WHO warned of in 2018?

Disease X predictions: mortality rate higher than seasonal flu; spread as easily as the flu; shake financial markets even before turning pandemic

‘Let me be blunt’: What’s bothering WHO chief on COVID-19

WHO Director-General expresses concern over rising cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Coronavirus: Where do new viruses come from?

The first thing to know is that it is rare for viruses to jump between species