New Delhi: Indian-origin Nobel laureate and MIT's Alfred P Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry emeritus H Gobind Khorana died on Wednesday. He was 89. A winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine and made seminal contributions to genetics. Khorana was born in India in 1922 in Raipur, Punjab that is now part of Pakistan. In an autobiographical note written upon winning the Nobel Prize, Khorana wrote,...
11:49 AM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: An assortment of peas welcomed users to the Google home page on July 20, 2011. The peas arranged in the shape of the Google logo is Google's tribute to Austrian botanist and monk George Mendel on his 189th birth anniversary. Born on July 20, 1822 in Heinzendorf, Austria (now in the Czech Pepublic) as Johann Mendel he was given the name Gregor when he joined a monastery as...
09:12 AM, Jul 20, 2011
London: Teams of scientists have cracked the genetic codes of the wild strawberry and a certain type of cacao used to make fine chocolate, work that should help breeders develop better varieties of more mainstream crops. The wild strawberry is closely related to important food crops such as apples, peaches, pears and raspberries, as well as cultivated strawberries, so its gene map will help breeders of these plants to produce...
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Chairman of panel concedes that necessary tests were not done. ...
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Lahore: His international career was just one Test old when Zulqarnain Haider retired while in hiding in London and the Pakistan wicketkeeper, who has received death threats from match-fixers, wants to return to the big stage now that he is back in his country. "I may be losing valuable time by not playing cricket but I will stage a comeback," said the 25-year-old, who returned to Pakistan earlier this week...
04:14 PM, Jan 20, 2008
A new way to bypass use of the embryonic stem cells found. A study finds the genetics behind many severe diseases. ...
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A team that cloned Dolly the sheep have made a genetically engineered chicken that produces cancer drugs in its eggs. ...
10:55 AM, Jan 15, 2007
Scientists in Australia claim to having made a breakthrough in the understanding of the genetics behind human eye colour. ...
02:53 PM, Dec 21, 2006
Young Pakistani street performer who never felt pain helps physicians to understand genetics of pain. ...
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