Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 15:48
Here comes an antibiotic `smart bomb` that can select specific strains of bacteria, damage their DNA and eliminate the infection.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 14:01
A new study suggests that DNA fossils hidden in modern human genome that help determine most people`s skin and hair, were picked up from Neanderthals through mating.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 20:21
Khalek Sheikh, the fiancee of the girl who was gang-raped on the orders of a kangaroo court after she failed to pay a hefty fine for being in love with a man from another community, on Tuesday recorded his statement in court as witness.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 11:38
"In some cases death came immediately; in others, after many days," the historian Procopius wrote as a terrifying disease scythed through Constantinople in 542 AD.
Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 16:25
Debunking the theory that lighter skin gradually arose in Europeans nearly 40,000 years ago, new research has revealed that it evolved much recently -- only 7,000 years ago.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 16:55
A local court has ordered a DNA test for a Deputy Superintendent of Police to determine the paternity of the minor daughter born to a woman constable, who allegedly committed suicide.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 13:54
A woman who claimed to be a child survivor of the 1912 Titanic disaster has been exposed as a fraud after extensive DNA testing, solving one of the `last great mysteries` of the ill-fated liner.
Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 12:06
Researchers have decoded the genome of a parasitic worm, which has affected 700 million of the world`s poor.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 12:06
Researchers have developed a new DNA supercomputer which is promising to deliver radically cheaper genome sequencing.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 16:59
A local court here has ordered DNA testing on a cow to settle a dispute over its ownership by two women at Punalur in the district.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 18:54
A day after 26 people were charred to death in a devastating fire in a train near Puttaparthy in Andhra Pradesh, as many as 20 bodies were identified and eight of them have been handed over to relatives.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 14:21
Scientists in China have used jellyfish DNA to create glow-in-the-dark piglets that emit a fluorescent green light.
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