Time NIV changes course to prioritise public health over paper publication
NIV should quickly make genome data available in a public database so that researchers in India and elsewhere can analyse
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Research
129 papers retracted, and recurrent use of a single sentence in innumerable papers by Indian researchers
In January-February this year, Neurosurgical Review, a Springer Nature journal, retracted 129 Commentaries. Of them, 87 Commentaries are by the Chennai-based Saveetha Institute
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No phenotype data details in GenomeIndia’s proposal call
On January 9, 2025, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) called for proposals on ‘Translational research using genomeIndia data’ from scientists
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Obesity rare in Indian rural children despite genetic susceptibility
A genetic study of childhood obesity in about 6,400 school-going children aged 9-18 years has found that socioeconomic status significantly
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Lipase inhibitors cause mosquito sterility
Exposing mosquitoes to lipase inhibitors prior to an infectious blood meal can induce sterility As per a study published recently, the development of Plasmodium falciparum,
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Journal finally retracts the discredited hydroxychloroquine paper
The paper published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents was withdrawn because of concerns about the ethical approval for the research.
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Journal ‘retracts’ controversial paper published by BHU on Covaxin safety
The editor and the publisher have decided that this article should be removed on public health grounds, the retraction notice
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43 papers of a former CSIR scientist retracted
Papers of Ashok Pandey of CSIR-NIIST in Thiruvananthapuram and CSIR-IITR in Lucknow published in the journal Bioresources Technology, where he
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Vaccine trial soon amid fear of Ebola virus spread to other countries
Currently there are no vaccines available for the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus
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COVID-19 saw more retractions in science journals than preprints
A small study has found that 143 peer-reviewed journal papers were retracted compared with just 40 retracted preprints
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Covaxin elicits immune memory to virus up to six months, study finds
The study has been posted on a preprint server medRxiv. Preprints are yet to be peer-reviewed and published in a
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Explained: The discovery that led to organocatalysis gold rush
What is catalysis? Catalysis is Catalysis is a term used to describe a process in the presence of a substance
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Nobel Prize for sensing heat
The ability of our body to sense touch and temperature — both hot and cold — particularly noxious temperature, is
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