A section of BioAsia 2024 delegates pose for a group picture during the tour of Genome Valley on Monday. | Photo Credit: Arrangement Telangana showcased the strides made in the life sciences sector with a guided tour for about 200 delegates of BioAsia 2024 on Monday to Genome Valley, the well known organised cluster for … Read more
New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Thursday said he has reiterated directions for carrying out genome sequencing of positive cases so that cases of JN.1 variant can be confirmed. Talking to PTI Video, he said the government has ramped up COVID testing, with 636 tests conducted on Wednesday. Bharadwaj had on Wednesday confirmed … Read more
CHANDIGARH: The UT health department has started gearing up for any rise in Covid numbers especially in view of cases of new variant JN 1 getting reported in the country. The health department will get genome sequencing of the patients done, so that the variants of the virus can be detected in time and preventive … Read more
Tourists at the Taj Mahal on December 24, 2022. The health department in Agra has begun screening and collecting samples of foreign tourists at Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Akbar’s Tomb. | Photo Credit: PTI A 40-year-old man, who returned from China two days back, has tested positive for COVID-19 following which he has been … Read more
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi have revealed the mechanisms driving the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in humans which can help in better understanding of COVID-19’s pathogenesis, immune evasion and emergence of variants of concern. According to the seven-member research team, CpG (a cytosine followed by a guanine) numbers in virus genomes have … Read more
April 7, 2022 – While scientists celebrate putting together the last pieces of the human genome – a major accomplishment decades in the making – the rest of us are left wondering what this breakthrough could mean for our own health and well-being. Advances in diagnosis and treatment of cancers, development disorders, infertility, and many … Read more
April 6, 2022 – For the first time, the human genome has finally been mapped end-to-end, and the historic milestone has scientists celebrating. “It’s genuinely a really big and exciting deal both in the genomic community as well in the broader scientific and medical community,” says Benjamin Solomon, MD, clinical director of the National Human … Read more
Dr Phillipy said: “Because these regions are so dynamic and changing so rapidly, there’s some hope that any of the clues to what makes humans uniquely human in terms of cognition, and an increased brain size, etcetera, might have some connection to these regions that we’ve uncovered.” Source link
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): A Kerala-based startup has come up with genome-based technology that uses saliva to analyse a person’s genetic disposition to predict critical diseases, to which an individual is prone to, thereby preventing it through precision medicine. Incubated at the Integrated Startup Complex of the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) in Kochi, SAGENOME has already rolled … Read more
WASHINGTON: Scientists have developed a novel technology for a CRISPR-based Covid-19 diagnostic test that uses a smartphone camera to provide accurate results in under 30 minutes. According to the research published in the journal Cell, the new diagnostic test can not only generate a positive or negative result, it also measures the viral load — … Read more