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CCMB Study on Genetic Diversity and Species Traits

A recent study conducted by scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB) has shed light...

📅 June 14, 2023

Kolkata becomes first city to install RT-PCR machines in India

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has installed first of its kind high-end reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)...

📅 November 19, 2019

DNA test : 45 year old double murder solved

DNA evidence found at a 1973 crime scene has helped the investigators to identify suspect. However the suspect...

📅 March 28, 2019

Japanese-born Marine biologist Osamu Shimomura passes away

Japanese-born Marine biologist Osamu Shimomura (90), who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has passed away in...

📅 October 23, 2018

Advantages and Disadvantages of Genetically Modified Crops

Genetically modified crops are plants whose DNAs are modified by the genetic engineering methods to develop favorable characteristics....

📅 October 7, 2018

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...

📅 August 6, 2018

India ranked as world’s fifth largest cultivated area under genetically modified (GM) crops

According to the Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/ GM Crops in 2017 by International Service for the Acquisition...

📅 July 18, 2018

World’s first ‘speed breeding’ technique to produce Wheat: Australia

Inspired by NASA’s experiments to grow wheat in space, Australian scientists have developed the world’s first ‘speed breeding’...

📅 April 24, 2018

GM Mustard

Hybrid variety of a crop is obtained by crossing of two genetically diverse plants of same species and...

📅 April 13, 2018

DNA Based Computing

DNA based computing uses biological molecule instead of silicon chip for computing is DNA based computing. So (A)(T)(G)(C)...

📅 April 13, 2018

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