ISSN: 2456-7264 | Issue – 29 | Published On 18/06/2024 |
Unseen facts of Koala’s Genome Scientists of Australia from different institutes have for the first time mapped the genome of modern koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). The team has sequenced almost 20,000 genes using supercomputers and state-of art bioinformatics tools. The genome has been sequenced with high accuracy and made available in
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A Modish Tool to Detect Bacteria in Fresh Edibles and Water Eating vegetables as raw is much preferred in US unlike people in other countries who cook their vegetables, which is a major concern for food safety in US. Looking into this, the food scientists from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
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Diagnose cancer just in seconds The contemporary methods available to diagnose cancer are either time-consuming or inaccurate in differentiating healthy and cancerous tissue. To overcome these problems, researchers from University of Texas, Austin in the US have developed a pen-like mass spectrometry device, named as ‘MasSpec Pen’. The device is handheld;
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A new antibiotic with latest features Invariably there is high demand to discover new generation antibiotics due to alarming threat due to emergence of drug resistant bacterial pathogens. Owing to this public health catastrophe, a multi-institutional group of scientists have discovered a new antibiotic, ‘Pseudouridimycin’ (PUM). It is natural product extracted
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Natural pacemaker rather artificial electronic pacemaker To date, electronic pacemakers are commonly used in patients with dysfunction heartbeat but for the first time human pluripotent stem cells were used to produce biological pacemaker. The research was conducted by a bench of scientist from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, at Toronto,
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International Universal flu vaccine for mankind Influenza virus remains to be a curse to human population due to its dubious antigenic drift and shift properties. There are many instances of havoc cause by flu in the past but still the remedies available are not reliable to protect the future owing to its
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