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Haven’t we all read about how our ‘genes’ make up who we are— many traits like the colours of our hair and how we look depends on the genes. However, where exactly are these genes? They are in the coiled ‘chromosomes’ found in our DNA. So where exactly in the chromosomes are these genes that decide our height or our eye colour?

Researchers from the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune and Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, have identified a novel noncoding RNA that causes cancer in mice.

In a recent study, researchers from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (InStem), Bengaluru, and the University Hospital of Odense, Denmark, have observed some fascinating aspects of non-dividing stem cells from the bone marrow.

भारतीय तंत्रज्ञान संस्था मुंबई येथील संशोधकांनी ग्रामीण भागात वापरण्यासाठी कमी खर्चाचे, सोप्या पद्धतीने देखरेख करता येण्यासारखे आर्सेनिक गाळण्याचे संयंत्र विकसित केले आहे.

A team of Irish and Indian biologists from the University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, the Natural History Museum (NHM), UK, and the University of Delhi (DU), India, have provided detailed descriptions of these newly discovered frogs.

In a recent study, researchers at Bengaluru’s St. John’s Research Institute, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and St. John’s Medical College and Hospital, have described how the presence of a particular mineral in the urine can tell a tale about the health of our bones.

भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान मुंबई (आई आई टी बॉम्बे) के शोधकर्ताओ ने एक जीवन-रक्षक यंत्र विकसित किया है जो स्मार्ट फोन की मदद से दिल का दौरा पड़ने से पहले ही उसका पता लगा सकता है। इस अभिनव सेन्सर की संकल्पना शोध छात्रों, देबास्मिता मोंडोल और सौरभ अग्रवाल, ने प्रोफेसर सौम्यो मुखर्जी के मार्गदर्श

With nine of the ten most polluted cities in the world located in India, the country is grappling with increasing pollution that is affecting the health and wealth of its people.

Palaeontologists from India have discovered fossil evidence of a hominid species at Tapar in the Kutch basin of Gujarat.

Researchers from NCBI, RRI, University of Barcelona, CSIR - Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, CNCI, and University of Queensland tried to understand how cells maintain their shapes in spite of expelling material from their membrane.