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

COVID-19: XBB detected in India in Sept 2022, became dominant in Nov, INSACOG says in late bulletin

Weekly bulletin was published after a gap of over three months  

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,…

Study unearths potential diagnostic markers for male infertility

Eight genes causing infertility identified

The ‘kraken’ COVID variant XBB.1.5 is rising quickly in the US — here’s what it could mean for the UK

While XBB’s mutations enable it to evade our immune systems better than previous omicron subvariants, it doesn’t appear to be causing&…

IMTech Chandigarh to start novel coronavirus genome sequencing

Two other institutes under CSIR already on the job

COVID: What we know about new omicron variant BF.7

BF.7 may well cause more serious illness in people with weaker immune systems.  

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 …

Human evolution didn’t stop at split from chimpanzees, 155 tiny new genes identified: Study

Some of the new genes linked with growth defects, diseases, say scientists

Infographic: Do we need a booster dose?

Omicron, the most common COVID-19 strain in the world today, has dramatically reduced the efficacy and duration of vaccine protection 

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

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 

COVID origins debate: What to make of new findings linking the virus to raccoon dogs

The latest data supports the link of COVID-19 origins to Wuhan’s animal trade, it is unlikely to provide irrefutable evidence

WHO says COVID remains a global emergency, but we’re at a transition point. What does this mean?

We still face significant challenges, with high rates of transmission in many countries