In News A 57-year-old patient from Maryland in the United States suffering from end-stage heart disease got his second shot at life after receiving a genetically-altered pig heart. This represents a remarkable first in the world of medical science. About Pigs are increasingly becoming popular candidates for organ transplantation. This is because their organs are […]
In News Social activists working among farmers have come out against the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI) draft regulations on genetically modified (GM) food. Major Highlights of Draft Regulations: Labelling: FSSAI had proposed all food products having individual genetically engineered ingredients of 1% or more to be labelled as “Contains GMO/Ingredients derived […]
In News For the first time, India is set to import 15 lakh tonnes of genetically modified soymeal. Why does India need to import? Rising Demands: The import of soymeal is to meet the current feed shortage in the country. There is a rising demand for a major ingredient of poultry feed. Poor harvest: The […]
In News Recently, Scientists have assembled the largest collection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in the telescope’s first FRB catalogue. About Researchers at the Pune-based Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) and the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) with collaboration of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Collaboration have achieved this milestone. A […]
In News The Government of India (GoI) has notified the genome sequencing of 5% of the COVID positive cases and to maintain a record of it. About The work began in January by sequencing samples of people who had a history of travel from the United Kingdom and a proportion of positive samples in the […]
In News OSIRIS-REx spacecraft starts its two-year-long journey back to Earth. About OSIRIS-REx It is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36) and return it to Earth for study. Scientists will use the asteroid samples to study the formation of the solar system and of […]
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