Genetics
What is ecDNA?
Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) has gained attention in cancer research. Recent studies have found it in many types of tumours, showing its key role in cancer biology. Discovery and Importance ecDNA was discovered 50 years ago as a small genetic fragment ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2024
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
How Does Math Relate to the Life Cycle of Periodical Cicadas?
Two broods of periodical cicadas have emerged together for the first time in over 200 years. Brood XIX appears in the southeastern U.S., while Brood XIII is found in the Midwest. Additionally, Australian greengrocer cicadas, which follow a seven-year cycle, ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2024
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Pando: World’s Oldest Living Organism
Pando is a remarkable clonal colony of quaking aspen trees in Utah, which spans 106 acres and consists of around 47,000 individual trees. Pando is connected by an extensive underground root system, making it a single organism rather than a ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2024
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Fact Sheet: Sika Deer
The Sika deer, also known as the Japanese deer or Northern spotted deer, is a species of deer native to much of East Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, and eastern parts of China. The species has also been introduced to various ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2023
Category: International / World Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Svante Pääbo receives Nobel Prize in Medicine
Svante Pääbo was conferred the Nobel Prize in Medicine on October 3, 2022. Key facts Svante Pääbo received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his pioneering works in the field of paleogenomics – a branch of science dealing with the ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2022
Category: Awards, Honours & Persons in News • Science & Technology Current Affairs
DBT sanctions genetic research project to 20 institutions
A genetic research project named ‘GenomeIndia: Cataloguing the Genetic Variation in Indians’ has been recently sanctioned by Department of Biotechnology (DBT) to 20 institutions for a period of 3 years. Under GenomeIndia project, the ‘Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)’, which analyses 10,000 individuals ..
Union Agriculture Minister attends the Eighth Session of Governing Body of Seed Treaty
The eight-session of the Governing Body of International Treaty of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) is being held in Rome, Italy from 11-16 November 2019. ITPGRFA was adopted by the Thirty-First Session of the Conference of the Food ..
China’s researchers claims to create world’s first single-chromosome yeast
Molecular biologists at the Centre for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences in China have claimed to create the world’s first single-chromosome yeast while not affecting the majority of its functions. If their claim is true then this breakthrough could help ..