COVID -19 is now a Pandemic: Exponential growth rate of Coronavirus Dangerous
The SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, has infected over 1,18,000 people around the globe and killed more than 4,000
COVID-19: WHO-China joint mission says China’s handling of the disease is historic
The mission observed that other affected countries should increase their level of preparedness and take cues from how China has managed to tackle the virus
Artificial Intelligence is being used to find disease-related genes
“We have for the first time used deep learning to find disease-related genes. This is a very powerful method in the analysis of huge amounts of biological information, or ‘big data’,” said Sanjiv Dwivedi, first author of the newly published research
Scientists Condemn Rumors about Origin of Coronavirus in China
Scientists from several countries, engaged in extensive study of SARS-CoV-2 in the virology lab in Wuhan, have concluded that the coronavirus originated in wildlife, says a statement published in Lancet.
What NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveals about most distant object ever it has visited
The distant object is known as Arrokoth, and is a peanut-shaped, ultra-red object. Arrokoth sits in the trans Pluto region, some 1 billion miles from the Pluto in the Kuiper belt
‘Ghost population’ of archaic humans found in modern day genes of people in West Africa
A new study published in Science Advances has found that in a few populations in West Africa, like the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Mende of Sierra Leone, some of their DNA contained variants that are not found in other living human populations.
Chinese scientist behind genetically engineered babies jailed for 3 years
He Jiankui’s work sparked wide-scale controversy among the scientific communities across the world. The main concern was that of ethics
Earth’s forests could be 385 million years old
In an abandoned quarry near Cairo, New York, scientists have discovered the oldest forest — the fossilized woody roots of dozens of ancient trees