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Rajya Sabha passed the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill 2021, which aims to amend the 2002 Act, reduce compliance burden & simplify patent application processes.

Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer has revived morbid curiosity in the destructive power of nuclear weapons. There are now an estimated 12,512 nuclear warheads.

Apparently, we’re just too busy chatting to be able to concentrate on such a tricky task

There are a number of emerging applications of cfDNA, including in understanding why a body is rejecting a transplanted organ. Here, some cfDNA obtained from the donor who is donating the organ – called donor-derived cfDNA, dd-cfDNA – could provide an early yet accurate estimate of how well the organ…

Undernutrition during pregnancy is one of the risk factors for diseases in children as they grow older, said researchers, adding that maternal malnutrition remains a global issue for women. Read further on Dynamite News.

Bone marrow transplants can be used to treat blood cell cancers and sometimes to cure certain other disorders.

"Mountains of calorie-rich (and often nutritionally poor) food and . . . sugary beverages are readily available"

Research carried out at the University of Dundee found ultrasound/MRI fusion targeted biopsy detected more significant prostate cancer lesions.

It was announced on Monday that the BBC newsreader had died at the age of 67 after he was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014.