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Tiny bacteria lurking in a lake half a mile beneath Antarctica's icy surface may mitigate the release of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere...

A recent study by MIT says nearly 1.5 bn people in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh are likely to face deadly heat waves within the next...

In a new study, researchers have shed light on how a key fat-producing enzyme helps protect cells from a toxic form of fat. This...

The Botulinum toxin is one of the most poisonous biological substances known, it is a neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Do not mistake...

On Wednesday, the U.S. FDA advisory panel concluded that the benefits of Johnson & Johnson's experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug Sirukumab do not outweigh the...

Hemorrhagic fever in humans which are lethal in 40% to 90% of cases, are generally caused by Filoviruses, including Ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, and Marburg marburgvirus. The...

Ludhiana state’s School of Animal Biotechnology of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), according to an announcement has reportedly secured a...

The American multinational conglomerate, GE Healthcare, has appointed Nalinikanth Gollagunta as its president and CEO for India and South Asia, and MD of Wipro...

In the normal course of evolution, any specific trait has only a modest chance of being inherited by offspring, but with the development of...

The Scottish biotech, TC BioPharm, has now announced it has been selected for funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 (H2020) research and innovation...

Apart from limited nerve grafts, doctors have only been able to use synthetic conduits (interposition graft), to reconnect severed nerves so that the nerve...

Type 2 diabetes, labelled a global health epidemic by the World Health Organization is now found to be possible contagious and capable of spreading...

Celgene Corp and Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc's oral treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients with a rare genetic mutation, has on Tuesday been approved...

Govt Job : Research Associate (Project Coordinator) & Medical Social Worker @ Centre for Non Communicable Disease - NCDC Applications are invited for following posts...

Oh, yeah you heard it right. I’ve done all the pinching for you. You can now free yourself from that earth-bound cubicle. NASA has a...

Planning For a PhD ? Apply For The Gates Cambridge Scholarship Programme - 2018 The Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme was established in October 2000 by...

Death is perhaps the only certain thing in life. But greedy as we are, humans have long been trying to achieve immortality. And some even...

Disclaimer: Not for the faint-hearted (neat freaks). Looks like we were blaming the wrong guy in this “dirty” pursuit all this time, when the real...

The spine is the point of connection between the brain, sensory neurons (which transmit sensory information such as temperature, pain, and touch), and motor neurons (which...

A novel tool developed by scientists at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) represents an important step forward for single-cell RNA sequencing- an advancing...