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IIT Madras gets to engineering bugs

Synthetic biology, the new, transformative discipline that uses molecular tools and techniques to build biological devices, is finally catching the fancy of Indian engineers. A team from IIT Madras has won two awards at the 9 th International Genetically...

Ancient ‘mummy' hath no modern kin

Where could man's quest of knowledge, that too of prehistoric patterns of migration, lead him? To sequence the genome of 5,300-year-old ‘mummy', also called Oetzi or ‘the Tyrolean Iceman'. And what was found? The ancient ‘mummy' has no...