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Nobel Prize win for Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA
Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries on human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA that helped us understand what makes humans unique and provided key insights into our immune system, including our vulnerability to severe COVID-19. Techniques that Paabo spearheaded allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins the Denisovans as well as Neanderthals. Just as you do an archeological excavation to find out about the past, we sort of make excavations in the human genome, he said at a news conference held by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. While Neanderthal bones were first discovered in the mid-19th century, only by understanding their DNA often referred to as the code of life have scientists been able to fully understand the links between species. This included the time when modern humans and Neanderthals diverged as a species, around 800,000 years a
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Mitochondrial DNA mutations associated with heart disease risk: Research
During a recent study researchers have discovered how mitochondrial function, and dysfunction, play critical roles in numerous diseases, and even ageing.
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Humans decoded
It's expected that genome-based research will help develop highly effective diagnostic tools and treatments for diseases
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How the human code has been unraveled: Here's what experts suggest
Last week, scientists completed sequencing the human genome, the goal of a project that began in October 1990
Rethink the Bill
The criminal procedure law erodes fundamental rights
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Corona epidemic hit 20K years ago, could alter people's DNA, says study
May have dire implications if Covid-19 not brought under control soon
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World's oldest DNA sheds light on how mammoths evolved: Study
Scientists have sequenced the world's oldest DNA recovered from the remains of mammoths
Covid-19 crisis: Race to develop vaccine gets a booster as field widens
On Thursday, CDSCO also approved Zydus Cadila's plasmid DNA vaccine candidate ZyCoV-D, developed at its Vaccine Technology Centre in Ahmedabad.
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Cancer drug with new process on slowing DNA repair shows promise in trial
The clinical trial led by investigators at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was detailed in the journal The Lancet Oncology
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Breakthrough in dealing with snakebite
The sequencing of the genome of the Indian cobra could soon lead to improvements in the techniques used for producing anti-venom
Should you eat your rice or ditch it? Let your genes choose for you
Look at the people from other South-East Asian countries where rice is more a staple than in India. How many of them are overweight or obese?
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DNA gets a new - and bigger - genetic alphabet
Hachimoji DNA could be a far more durable way to store digital data that could last for centuries
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There's no law around genetic code, but DNA is being used in many ways
The genetic code is being used in many ways - from investigating crime to drawing up a personalised diet plan, tracing one's ancestry and even as artwork
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What our DNA foretells
The book is brilliantly lucid in its explanations of methodology, and specific studies. It's written from a standpoint of humility.
DNA: Between crime busting and privacy
India has a proposal that would make it mandatory for anybody making a police complaint to provide a DNA sample
New vitamin may help DNA repair, reverse ageing process: Study
The findings may lead to drugs to treat cancer, Alzheimer's, protect astronauts from radiation
Synthetic DNA motor to improve cancer detection, drug delivery
The team created the nanomachine from compartments made up of DNA enzyme molecules and substrates
Computer OS, short movie, other data successfully stored in DNA
They compressed the files into a master file, and then split data into short strings of binary code
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Being overweight may alter your DNA, says Study
A high body mass index leads to epigenetic changes at nearly 200 loci of the genome
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