Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, India-born US citizen whose pioneering work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry, has been honoured with a knighthood by the royal establishment......
Uttam RajBhandary, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Molecular Biology and Associate Head of the Department of Biology at MIT, knew Dr Har Gobind Khorana for close to half a century. Many consider him......
Enough anthrax vaccine to inoculate everyone in the United States could be grown inexpensively and safely with only one acre of tobacco plants, a University of Central Florida molecular biologist......
The American Association of Indian Scientists in Cancer Research at its 15th annual meeting at the Lion's Club in San Diego, California, presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr Inder Verma,......
The severity of BF.7 variant of coronavirus in India may not be as serious as it is currently prevailing in China as Indian have already developed 'herd immunity' a top official of CSIR- Centre for......
While the 20th century had seen the ubiquitous hand of physics in every invention worth its name, the 21st century would strike a sharp contrast with biological sciences coming to the fore, said......
For a country that doesn't take much interest in scientists, Gilles-Eric Seralini can probably be termed well-known in India. Seralini is professor of molecular biology at the University of Caen in......
A common preservative found in soft drinks has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA, a new study has said. The problem -- more usually associated with ageing and alcohol abuse -- can......
Indian scientists as well as biotech firms have awakened to the fact that there is a genetic jackpot in the country's endogamous gene pool. If the genetic study of 275,000 pure-bred residents of......
The Rs 100-crore (Rs 1 billion) DuPont Knowledge Centre in Hyderabad, being set up by global science-based products and services company DuPont, will focus on molecular biology, bio-informatics and......