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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Life on Earth may have origins from far, far away. Scientists have found a full set of life-building molecules in a nearly pristine asteroid sample, and the discovery suggests that the necessary ...

The Congress party is set to convene a meeting of its Congress Working Committee (CWC) in Delhi on April 10 to deliberate on ...