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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
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Topic: Lab

Wuhan and 58 other labs handle world’s deadliest pathogen. Only some score high on safety

Biosafety level 4 labs are built so that researchers can safely work with the most dangerous pathogens– ones that can cause serious disease and have no vaccines.

What is gain of function? Research field back in focus as Covid linked to China ‘lab accident’

Gain of function research focuses on growing generations of microorganisms under conditions that cause mutations. For years, there has been an ethical debate around it.

How India increased its Covid testing capacity from 52 labs to over 1,300 in 4 months

As on 27 July, only 152 of India’s 739 districts — about 20% — didn’t have Covid-19 testing labs, thanks to a decade-old ICMR scheme.

Here’s how scientists know the coronavirus came from bats and not a lab

Coronaviruses and bats are locked in an evolutionary race in which the viruses are constantly evolving to evade their immune system and bats are evolving to withstand infections.

On Camera

Akbar wasn’t a Hindu-made hero. Don’t use communal filters to frame his legacy

What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.