The principal of a school in Jharkhand’s Chatra district was arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old student, police said on Friday. The 50-year-old accused was apprehended on Thursday after the ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

CRISPR is a powerful DNA-editing tool that has underpinned huge advancements in human health care in the last decade. It is a precision tool, but is not perfect, and misplaced DNA edits can compromise ...

When he was a doctoral student at the University of Copenhagen, Eske Willerslev was a nobody. At least, that’s how it seemed to the budding evolutionary geneticist, who was unable to lay his hands on ...

Tijjani Reijnders says the Club World Cup has helped him settle in with Manchester City. The former AC Milan midfielder joined City in time to be registered for the USA-based tournement. “The first ...

As many DNA datasets are openly accessible online, the study warns it is possible for cybercriminals to misuse the information for surveillance, manipulation, or malicious experimentation. Dr Anjum ...

New research has discovered that the molecular machines responsible for copying our DNA have a surprising hidden talent—an ability to create entirely new and highly sophisticated DNA sequences from ...

The genetic building blocks of life—formed from the four nucleotides adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T)—are read in groups of three known as codons. While some codons (known as ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...

Dhaka, April 7 (UNI) Former Bangladesh skipper and one of the country’s greatest openers Tamim Iqbal has been appointed head of an ad-hoc committee to run the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), replacing ...

Chelsea progress to the semi-finals of the FIFA Club World Cup after they edge PalmeirasCHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP Chelsea booked their place in the semi-finals of the FIFA Club World Cup (CWC) with a ...