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As said ‘‘an ace in the hole for DNA sequencing’’ by world’s most reputed Science journal i.e. Nature, it is true that Oxford is going to change what people think of Genomics. It is also evident that Gordon Sanghera and his team have developed a revolutionary device that will change the course of what people know and do with DNA Sequencing. So this special article will show you that why OXFORD has been selected for special coverage despite the presence of other major players in the market. Nanopore company is a spinout company of Oxford University. Naopre is a another…

Prof B K Thelma, known as Thelma among the BioScience community is a well recognized leader in Medical Genomics Scientific research and among the few scientists who translated her research into application. Dr Thelma is an excellent example to understand how Genomics is done and how it is applied for the welfare of general public. Thus we are trying to write as much as possible about her for our readers who search for new avenues and career prospects in Genomics. Early Life Dr Thelma came from a pretty little town called Madikeri, situated in the hills and valleys of a…

Introduction National Institutional Ranking Framework released its 3rd edition of Indian University Rankings. The higher education world in India and its stakeholders in various capacities expected eminent Institutions of the country like IIMs and IITs continue to be on top of these rankings. On a contrary, it was quite surprising to see few private institutions are ranked even above some IITs and NITs like Vellore Institute of Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, College of Engineering, Pune and much more which were missing in 2017 were able to secure positions in best 10. by Rahul Bhandari, Assistant Director…

Terrorism is the most prevalent word in the developing countries. They have been fighting terror, whether it is intra or inter, since time immemorial. During the World War I, apart from human fighting against human, the resources required for livelihood was also targeted. Its impact was directly related to the food which could impair the basic skeleton of a country. Biologically active microorganisms were exploited in the form of biological weapons. Authors: Utkarsh Singh*1 and Preeti Sachan2 1Department of Biotechnology, Baba Farid Institute of Technology, Dehradun 2Department of Environmental Science, Kanya gurugul Campus, Gurukul Kangri Vishvavidyalaya, Haridwar

Introduction The exome is the sum of all regions in the genome comprised of exons. The term exon was derived from “EXpressed regiON,” since these are the regions that get translated, as opposed to the intron, or “INTRagenic regiON” which is not represented in the final protein. Exome sequencing is a capture based method developed to identify variants in the coding region of genes that havea wide range of applications, including population genetics, genetic disease, and cancer studies. In 2001 human genome project required more than 200 scientists working for more than a decade with almost $3 billion cost while…

by Ramachandra Dilip, Sri Shakti Institute of Engineering and Technology (SIET), Coimbatore, India. ABSTRACT Tardigrade also known as water bear are one of the extremophiles which are said to have survived five mass extinction events. This tardigrades species are so stress tolerant that it can survive the vacuum of space, high and low temperatures, and strong doses of ionizing radiations. Ramazzotius varieornatus is one of tardigrade species, which have the genome size of 75 to 800 mbp of DNA, revealed to have about 19000 proteins.The genome is protected by a protein called DSUP, is one kind of a protein found…

“I will not be able to complete my graduate studies, I am very dumb”, a sad and gloomy face of my lab mate popped up as I saw her rising across from her chair. “I even don’t comprehend the fundamentals of my work and my “simple” experiments fail miserably” continued the explanation. There was sense of dejection as the fear of her PhD work rose over her. “You have lots of data and you are going good in PhD” my voice rose as I saw clear signs of despondency on her face. If this sounds usual to you, probably you…

It has been 5 years since Biotech Express was started with a notion to unite scattered Biotech academia and industry when there was no source of Indian news and information for academicians, scientists and industrialists. In August 2013 the first issue of Biotech Express was released and at that time our main focus was entirely to cover Academia and research of Biotech, so we started with the very basic topic of Model organisms in Biological research because no experiment can be completed without having starter culture. So in 12 issues we covered model organisms from smallest to largest which are…

The 4th Edition of International Conference on Plant Genetics and Genomics “Next Gen Crops for Sustainable Agriculture” was organized on July 19-20, 2018 in the Hotel Hometel, Chandigarh, India in which about 135 Scientists participated. This grand two days event witnessed around 27 enlightening Invited Talks, 5 Oral Presentations, 51 Poster Presentations and an Exhibition featuring Technology Giant like Merck Life Sciences. During the Welcome Address of the Conference, Dr Sanjay Bajaj, Managing Director, Select Biosciences India greeted all the Speakers, Delegates and Exhibitors while introducing the organization and its activities to the audience. This was followed by Speaker Introduction…

Professor Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India and Executive Director (Honorary) at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability – India. Formerly, he was Eminent Scientist at the Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing, Mohali and Chief Scientist & Head of Biotechnology Division and Centre for Biofuels at CSIR’s National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth & energy, industrial…