Idaho Company’s Genetically Engineered Potatoes To Hit Canadian Market
After a go-ahead from the Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, potatoes genetically engineered by an Idaho company are now all set...
European Patent Office grants CRISPR patent to Merck KGaA
Merck KGaA today announced the European Patent Office (EPO) has issued a "Notice of Intention to Grant" for Merck's patent application covering the company's CRISPR...
Methane-Eating Bacteria Underneath The Antarctic Shelf, Can Help Reduce Global Warming ?
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...
Climate Change Effect : South Asia To Be Unlivable by 2100
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...
Scientists Identify Enzyme That May Protect Cells From Toxic Fat
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...
New Botulinum Neurotoxin Uncovered, May Hold Potential To Treat Numerous Medical Maladies
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...
FDA Panel Turns Down J&J Arthritis Candidate, Cites Patient Death As Reason
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...
IBT, Scripps Receive $6.6M Grant From NIH,NIAID For Ebola Vaccine
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...
GADVASU to receive 27 lakhs for research on goats
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...
GE Healthcare Announces Appointment Of New President & CEO Of GE Healthcare, India & South...
The American multinational conglomerate, GE Healthcare, has appointed Nalinikanth Gollagunta as its president and CEO for India and South Asia, and MD of Wipro...
Researchers Study Safe Release And Control Of GM Mosquitoes
In the normal course of evolution, any specific trait has only a modest chance of being inherited by offspring, but with the development of...
TC BioPharm To Receive $4M From key EU development fund for its cancer therapy
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...
Thread Of Life : Study Finds Spider Silk Capable Of Repairing Nerve Damage
Apart from limited nerve grafts, doctors have only been able to use synthetic conduits (interposition graft), to reconnect severed nerves so that the nerve...
Diabetes Could Be Infectious ! Scientists Find Possibility Of It Spreading Like Mad Cow...
Type 2 diabetes, labelled a global health epidemic by the World Health Organization is now found to be possible contagious and capable of spreading...
Leukaemia Treatment by Celgene, Agios Gets FDA Approval
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...
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The BRIC-National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad, has announced an exciting NIAB recruitment...
