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Byline: DNA Web Team Variation in genes encoding proteins involved in immune responses could be behind why some people remain asymptomatic following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes encode [...]

Surveillance of pathogens in wastewater is a cost-effective technique to track and understand the viral load of an infection in a community In a new study, scientists from Tata Institute [...]

Scientists carried out a large-scale screen to identify regulators of chromosome stability in C. albicans, a clinically relevant fungal model system In a recent collaborative study between Professor Kaustuv Sanyal's [...]

Byline: DQINDIA Online IIT Madras tool helps identify cancer-causing genes and aids in better recovery for patients besides reducing side effects IIT Madras Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence-based tool, [...]

Byline: DNA Web Team This gene blocks a key protective mechanism that prevents the lungs from responding to viral infections and is found in 60% of South Asians In a [...]

Byline: DNA Web Desk The research states that around 60% of people from South Asia and 15% of people of European ancestry carry the high-risk version of the gene. The [...]

Byline: DNA Web Team New research says that if a person contracts COVID after getting both the shots of the vaccine, the symptoms shown can be different from regular ones. [...]

Byline: DNA webdesk Millions around the world enjoy the health benefits of yoga but are unaware that the benefits begin at the source of the body's biology i.e. the DNA. [...]

Byline: DNA Web Team Unlike the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the second wave saw a large number of children being infected with the novel coronavirus. This has led [...]

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi has partnered with the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), a global health non-profit based [...]

Byline: DNA Web Team Having genetic risk variants in the ABO gene might significantly increase the chances of developing Covid-19. Scientists have decoded genes that increase the chances of contracting [...]

Byline: DNA Web Team According to a study published in the famous medical journal 'The Lancet', COVID-19 can spread through the air. In today's show, we want to warn you [...]

Byline: DNA Web Team A group of scientists in India is working on genomic sequences of SARS-CoV-2 around the World, including India, to identify genetic variability and potential molecular targets [...]

There are many genetic causes of cancer: while some mutations are inherited from your parents, others are acquired all throughout your life due to external factors or due to mistakes [...]

Byline: MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz Source: University of Sydney Research published today in Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0012-7) has found that many of the viruses infecting us today have ancient evolutionary histories that [...]

Antibiotics are commonly used around the world to cure diseases caused by bacteria. But as the World Health Organization and other international bodies have pointed out, the global increase of [...]

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have found several previously unknown genes that make bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotics. The genes were found by [...]

A Yale-led team of researchers has identified specific gene combinations that can cause deadly brain cancer glioblastoma, using new technology that can also pinpoint triggers of other types cancers, they [...]

A Yale-led team of researchers has identified specific gene combinations that can cause deadly brain cancer glioblastoma, using new technology that can also pinpoint triggers of other types cancers, they [...]

July 21 -- The following is issued on behalf of the University Grants Committee: The Research Grants Council (RGC) will present its second public lecture this year under the theme [...]

Throughout our evolution, viruses have continually infected humans just as they do today. Some early viruses became integrated into our genome and are now known as human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs). [...]

Practising mind-body interventions (MBIs) such as meditation, yoga and Tai Chi daily reduces risk of depression and cancer by reversing the molecular reactions in DNA, suggests a new study. Researchers [...]

Byline: John Binz A new research has suggested that genetic mutations that develop into cancer are caused by simple random errors occurring during replacement of cells, indicating that 'bad luck' [...]

An experimental gene therapy that turned a patient's own blood cells into cancer killers has worked in a major study, with over a third of very sick lymphoma patients showing [...]

Byline: Varshitha A , Dr. Gopinath P Varshitha A , Dr. Gopinath P 1BDS 2 year, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha University, Chennai 2Senior lecturer, Department of Microbiology, Saveetha University, Chennai [...]

For the first time, a team including University College London (UCL) researchers has identified in human cancers two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by ionising radiation. These fingerprint patterns [...]

Byline: BioSpectrum Bureau Carbapenem antibiotics are widely used in hospitals to treat severe infections The US Food and Drug Administration cleared for marketing the Xpert Carba-R Assay, an infection control [...]

Using gene editing technology, researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University have, for the first time, successfully excised a segment of HIV-1 DNA - the virus [...]

Worldwide, 185 million people have chronic hepatitis C. Since the late 1980s, when scientists discovered the virus that causes the infection, they have struggled to find ways to grow it [...]

A deadly form of T-cell lymphoma is caused by an unusually large number gene deletions, making it distinct among cancers, a new Yale School of Medicine study shows. Researchers conducted [...]

When a genetic error weakens a child's immunity, otherwise nonthreatening microbes can sicken and sometimes kill. In work published 9 July in Science, researchers at The Rockefeller University and their [...]

JUniversity of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers have discovered that for women with a relatively common inherited genetic mutation, known as the KRAS-variant, an abrupt lowering of estrogen in [...]

Scientists have for the first time used DNA sequencing to trace the fatal spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis between patients in the UK. Genetic analysis of the TB bacteria revealed how [...]

Byline: Rohini Kelkar The discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 and its subsequent use to fight bacterial infections in 1945 changed the history of medicine. This was [...]

Why do some people live longer? Do they have any special types of genes? Do their genomes have anything in common? Do they have special genes which are expressed at [...]