The untold damage to biodiversity may have affected the fragile habitat of the bovine population, but Indian scientists have found that ghee from cows’ milk protects the liver from the harmful impact

On Monday, India formally took up the reins of conserving the world’s biological diversity with a call to nations to speed up the process of ratifying the Cartagena Protocol on biosafety and sustainable use of biological resources.

Genetic engineering has been hailed as a panacea for the problem of global hunger and population explosion, but research studies reveal that it has failed to deliver the goods. At the same time, it ha

India formally took over the reins of conserving the world’s biological diversity on Monday, with a call to nations to speed up the process of ratifying the Cartagena Protocol on bio-safety and sustai

Human greed has caused a major damage to the delicate biological diversity over the centuries. The estimated cost of rectifying this damage, at least to some extent, comes to a whopping Rs 23,65,000 c

A new species of bacteria living 1,200 metres deep at freezing temperatures in the Bay of Bengal is all set to solve the universal problem of lactose intolerance in human beings. Lactose is a type of

In a major study that could help treat lung cancer at the genetic level, an Indian-origin doctor in the US has, for the first time, landscaped the genome of cancer cells in both smokers and non-smoker

The shadow of novel Coronavirus is likely to haunt the annual Haj season, which begins in two weeks. India sends the third largest contingent of pilgrims to Saudi Arabia with about 1.70 lakh Indians p

In a major health concern, researchers from Vijayawada have found that a number of powerful antibiotics had developed high resistance in the city, due to indiscriminate prescription of medicines in go

With the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine losing efficacy against the deadly tuberculosis, Indian scientists now plan to give it a genetic boost by transferring some genes from a soil-living bacterium