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Topic: Genes

Our organs age at different rates, faster ageing means 20-50% higher mortality risk, shows study

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Morning sleepiness caused Chernobyl. You can stay alert with these three steps

From road accidents to nuclear meltdowns—Morning grogginess is more than just an annoyance. It has major societal consequences.

There’s more than one way to grow a baby

We studied genes involved in pregnancy and live birth in six different live-bearing species.

Your genes and morals have different PR advisers. That’s why you don’t act on bad thoughts

In ‘Beyond Bad’, Chris Paley writes that humans are the only species that can properly manage conflicts of interests within groups that aren’t family.

Scientists find out how plants pass on defects to offspring

The findings — made by a team of researchers from the UK, France, Germany, Japan, and US — have been published in the journal eLife.

What are Covid mutations in India? Are they more infectious? Gene sequencing has the answers

Indian scientists have analysed 4,000 samples of SARS-CoV-2 since the pandemic began, and now understand where the disease is coming from and where it’s going.

Study identifies 13 gene defects that make people vulnerable to severe Covid-19

From a naturally-occurring enzyme that can suppress viral replication to a diabetes drug may help reduce mortality, ThePrint brings you the latest on Covid-19.

Study identifies gene variations that increase susceptibility to Covid-19

From a new test to detect virus from gargled solution to research on how mild obesity can also prove dangerous, ThePrint brings you the latest findings on Covid-19 front.

It’s in your genes — Whether Covid lands you in hospital or not depends on your body

When a virus infects human cells, the body reacts by turning on what are essentially anti-virus alarm systems. But not all alarm systems are created equal.

Your risk of getting sick from coronavirus could lie in your genes

Scientists are working hard to understand the underlying reasons for such huge discrepancies in symptoms and outcomes of Covid-19.

On Camera

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

It is the law of progress that a few persons must go to the top to show the possibilities and opportunities, so that others might emulate and follow them, wrote GN Lawande in 1958

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.