The Highly anticipated decision for the 2017 Nobel Prizes was finally announced this month. For the world of Biology, it was endearing to learn that The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet jointly...
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In present times, when there are several pathogenic microbes dispersed across various environments, food quality is a major concern. We often find that aseptic packaging methods such as tetra packs an
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Gluten is a general name for the proteins found in wheat, rye, barley and triticale. These proteins are important since many people cannot tolerate these in their diet and may show various reactions t
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On 26th of January 2017, a bunch of scientists from the gene expression laboratory at the Salk Institute, California published a paper in the highly reputed journal 'Cell' which took the scientific co...
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MIT Technology Review, a magazine belonging to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published an article titled 'First Human Embryos Edited in US' on 26th of July 2017. The subtitle said 'Researc
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Melanocytes insert granules of melanin into specialized cellular vesicles called melanosomes which are then transferred into the keratinocyte cells of the human epidermis. Melanin production often res...
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Organs-on-a-chip (OOC) is a 3-D microfluidic cell culture chip which mimics or replicates the physiological response of actual organs or organ systems of the human body. Some organs that have been...
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Editing the genes either its replacement or deletion is one the major working application of Biotechnology. It is very much important in designing experiments and answering questions pertaining to...
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Germline engineering refers to producing permanent and hereditary changes in the genome (genome editing). This, although mostly practised on nonhuman animals and under tight regulation, is perfect...
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