NEW DELHI: The Project Directorate on Poultry (PDP), Hyderabad, under the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), has developed transgenic chicken for therapeutic purposes by transferring a gene from a different species into chicken.
Washington: In what could be claimed a major breakthrough, scientists have produced sugar from solar energy, using plant, bacterial, frog and fungal enzymes.
A scientist in the Institute of Life Science (ILS) here, a research body functioning under department of biotechnology, government of India, on Monday claimed to have discovered that the extract of mangrove plants can cure breast cancer.
New information on how plants breathe may help scientists engineer plants that require less water, according to a report published this month in Nature Cell Biology.
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, in association with Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) is organising an Indo-US Workshop on Epigenetic Regulation and Genome Control from December 16-18. Dr S.K.
The breakthrough paves the way for predictive healthcare and the possibility of identifying why certain people (with particular gene sequences) do not respond to certain medications, and what diseases a particular gene carrier, or a population, is likely to develop.
Breakthrough In Rabbits Helps Them Mate; May Help Grow Complex Body Parts
Washington: Researchers have engineered artificial penises in rabbits, using cells from the animals, who then used their new organs to father baby rabbits.