Ohio State University researchers have developed a delivery system for gene therapy that targets light-sensitive cells in the eye. A team of researchers from Oregon Health & Science University and…
Higher Education Commission (HEC) has approved Rs10.3 million research funding for a project of University of Health Sciences (UHS) that will trace “immunological, viral and genetic basis of COVID-19 in…
The scientists worry that the latest wave of genetic studies, including the CRISPR sickle cell study, may not have gotten enough scrutiny by objective experts. With three patients who have…
Sars-Cov-2, the official name of the virus that causes the disease Covid-19, and continues to blaze a path of destruction across the globe, is mutating. The coronavirus that is menacing…
Minister for National Food Security and Research Fakhar Imam Saturday said that government was working hard in applying genetic engineering, crop diversification and biotechnology in agriculture sector to ensure food…
Like a scene out of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” a human-virus infects a host and converts it into a factory for making more copies of itself. Now researchers have…
Genetic study suggests that People with type A blood may have higher risk of severe illness, while those with type O may have lower risk ast week, a genetic study…
Genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time. The results from the University of Copenhagen shed light on one of the branching points in…
The coronavirus pandemic circling the globe is caused by a natural virus, not one made in a lab, a new study says.The virus’s genetic makeup reveals that SARS-CoV-2 isn’t a…
A new study has provided the most comprehensive analysis of human genetic diversity to date, after the sequencing of 929 human genomes by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the…
Researchers have revealed the genetic mechanism that explains how birds sing different songs depending on their species. The team from Japan’s Hokkaido University and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial…
Somatic hybridization which is also known as protoplast fusion, is a type of genetic modification in plants by which two distinct species of pant are fused together to form new…