Editorial: The next contagion
The influenza A(H7N9) virus, a novel bird flu strain that emerged in China, has infected nine people and already killed three. Unlike the H5N1 virus that is widely endemic in…
Category: Genome sequencing
Editorial: Marvellous rodent
Published in The Hindu on July 21, 2011 Increase in human life expectancy produces a concomitant increase in the number of harmful mutations and accumulation of different forms of damages,…
Editorial: What genome sequencing reveals
Published in The Hindu on March 23, 2010 How rich human genetic diversity is has been revealed by the fully sequenced genomes of an indigenous southern African hunter-gatherer belonging to…
Editorial: A giant leap in sequencing Neanderthal genome
Published in The Hindu on February 25, 2009 The successful completion of a rough draft of the Neanderthal genome — this is the first time that a genome of an…
