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There should be sustained focus on genome sequencing for novel variants and India should refrain from shaming States that report more cases or novel variants

BMCRI laboratory yet to resume WGS of positive samples due to lack of eligible samples & resources.

A revolutionary shift in genomics tech has enabled population-scale sequencing, leading to unprecedented insights into humans’ genetic diversity. UK's 100K Genome project, deCODE's Icelandic effort, Diversity Human Genome Initiative, AllofUS, 1+ Million Genomes, 3M African Genomes, Emirati genome programme, GenomeAsia, IndiGen, and GenomeIndia - all aim to sequence lakhs of…

Among other things, the data could enable researchers to look at a person’s individual risk of common disease.

The Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, and life less than a billion years after that. Although life as we know it is dependent on four major macromolecules – DNA, RNA, proteins and lipids – only one is thought to have been present at the beginning of life: RNA.

Paramutations protect humans against viruses and are triggered by piRNA clusters, which are 3% of the fruit fly genome. Paramutations involve a small chemical modification of a chromosomal protein, flipping a nearby gene into a silenced state. William Bateson and Caroline Pellew discovered the first paramutation in the culinary pea…

"Cranberries' close association with Thanksgiving was simply a practical matter at first"

Cranberries are a staple in U.S. households at Thanksgiving – but how did this bog dweller end up on holiday tables?

The overarching aim was to build a yeast that can teach us new biology, researchers said.