US and British scientists claim to have grown a crystal that helped them unravel the structure of an enzyme called integrase, found in retroviruses like HIV.

Researchers create new 'smart' nanocapsule delivery system for use in protein therapy

21 Jan 2010

Nanocapsules are submicroscopic containers composed of an oily or aqueous core surrounded by a thin, permeable polymer membrane roughly several to tens of nanometers thick By Wileen Wong Kromhout

Generating understanding more important than generating information: Nobel laureate Ramakrishnan

06 Jan 2010

Piramal Lifesciences to invest Rs200 crore in drug researh

14 Oct 2009

Australian-American-British trio share Nobel for medicine

05 Oct 2009

Elizabeth H Blackburn, Carol W Greider and Jack W Szostak have jointly won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work on `how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

Genomic analysis links modern Indians to two ancestral populations

25 Sep 2009

New genomic research by scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad and the Harvard Medical School in the US has revealed that nearly all Indians carry genomic contributions from two distinct ancestral populations.

Malignant signature may help identify patients likely to respond to therapy

09 Sep 2009

A molecular signature that helps account for the aggressive behavior of a variety of cancers such as pancreatic, breast and melanoma may also predict the likelihood of successful treatment with a particular anti-cancer drug. By Steve Benowitz, director of communications, Cancer Centre, University of California, San Diego