Covishield and Covaxin -- the two coronavirus vaccines currently in use in India -- have efficacy against the 'Indian strain' and show "milder" illness in case of infection post vaccination, a......
The coronavirus vaccines will be equally effective against the new mutant of the virus and there is no reason to panic, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Director General Shekhar Mande......
The Drugs Controller General of India has approved the commercial launch of 'Feluda', the Tata CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) COVID-19 test, the Council of......
Scientists at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research's Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology have come up with a low-cost coronavirus test that will not require any expensive......
'Given that the globally most prevalent clade of SARS-CoV-2 is also predominant in India, any vaccine or drug that gets developed in the world should also prove effective in India' IMAGE: A health......
Cadila, Biocon developing rapid antibody testing kits; Eris, Mylan, Gland importing. Indian pharma majors are gearing up to develop or import testing kits for the novel coronavirus as demand for......
Eleven months after RA Mashelkar retired from the leadership of India's apex research body, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the government on Monday appointed Samir K......
Imagine a diabetic patient from Kerala being put on a drug regimen distinct from a patient in Punjab. If Indian researchers have their way, such customised medication based on genetic differences......
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) links 37 constituent laboratories with diverse research portfolios as varied as drug discovery to oceanography. The agency, which had a......
Samir K Brahmachari feels like Bhuvan, the lead character in Aamir Khan-starrer Lagaan. In the blockbuster, Bhuvan cobbles together a team of villagers, who have never played cricket in their......