I am a frequent visitor to the Jim Corbett National Park, India’s oldest and most iconic wildlife reserves. Famous for its Bengal tigers and rich biodiversity, the park also faces an increasing threat from forest fires each year. With rising […]
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The story dates back to the monumental work of Swedish Geneticist Svante Pääbo, who extracted and sequenced the Neanderthal genome from archaeological bones. He established a new branch of science called paleogenomics, comparing ancient reference genomes to modern human DNA,
In 2018, a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui shocked the world by announcing the birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies, twin girls Lulu and Nana. Using a powerful procedure called CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, he had attempted to edit their
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When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, it marked a pivotal point in our understanding of life. Now, decades later, a group of scientists in the UK have embarked on a bold mission: not just to read DNA,
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While developing this article for TheCellBot.com, I was incidentally listening to a speech by Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré. Intrigued by his thought leadership and his active work to promote self-reliance amongst the African people, I came across his thought
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