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According to the 2023 World Health Organisation (WHO) Malaria report, published in The Lancet Microbe journal, around 70 per cent of the global burden of the mosquito-borne disease is concentrated in 11 countries, including India and 10 African countries.

How cutting-edge cancer genomics is now being used in mainstream cancer care.

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), the University of Sheffield, and the University of Gothenburg has shed light on the genetic changes

From dark dragonflies becoming paler to plants flowering earlier, some species are slowly evolving with the climate. Evolutionary biologists explain why few will evolve fast enough.

Research out this week appears to show the potential longevity of transplanted organs from genetically engineered pigs. Scientists gave monkeys kidneys from these animals, finding that some were able to live for one to two years. Many of the genetic changes evaluated in this study could make pig-to-human transplants a more viable treatment to test out in clinical trials, the team says.

Constructing bacteria to become drug resistant only when they took up DNA containing cancer-associated changes, could be useful in detecting cancer.

Blood tests reveal there have been potential genetic mutations in the affected dolphins of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Scientists are starting to understand the precise workings of a type of gene that, unlike other genes, does not code for proteins in treating neurological conditions.

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