23 Jan, 2025
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World’s first three genetic parents gave birth to their child

  In New York-based reproductive endocrinologist reported the birth of the world’s first “three-parent” baby. It was a healthy boy who carried three people’s DNA, which consisted of the birth Mother, his own father and the DNA of a female donor. The mother of this baby went through mitochondrial replacement therapy which allowed her at […]

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Octopuses are genetically smart: know how

  Octopuses are the most amazing creature. These tentacle creatures are mysterious enough and have the capability of blending in along with the surroundings in the sea. “This may explain why they’re such good problem solvers,” Clifton Ragsdale, a neurobiologist at the University of Chicago unaffiliated with the paper, told Scientific American. In Most of the […]

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India set to launch its second Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2 in 2018

After one successful attempt, India’s ISRO is all set again to launch its second Moon mission in 2018. They named it after the first mission as Chandarayaan-2. Chandrayaad-2 is all set to take up its first test and this Wednesday, it went all underway to take up the test. ISRO chairperson, Kiran Kumar, when asked about […]

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Scientists at NASA planning to send a probe to Sun in 2018

Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are planning to conduct first ever solar mission by sending a robotic probe within 4 million miles of the Sun. The mission is still in designing phase and scientists are still thinking about how to protect the spacecraft from the extremely high temperature near the Sun that […]

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Earth 2.0: Does TRAPPIST-1 host another “Earth”

Here’s the biggest discovery of the century – a dim star system, consisting of seven Earth-sized planets, called “TRAPPIST-1”. In the most recent celestial breakthrough, scientists have stumbled upon seven tightly-packed Earth-sized planets, orbiting around a muted star called TRAPPIST-1. The number of planets and the intensity of radiation the planets are receiving from their […]

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Glitch in GPS Navigation System Call off SpaceX Dragon Supply Ship Launch during Final Approach to ISS

SpaceX’s ambitious mission of launching cargo ship has aborted in its final approach to the International Space Station (ISS) due to a technical glitch. SpaceX Dragon supply ship, which onboard a Falcon 9 rocket took wings on 19th February from NASA’s historic Launch Complex 39A, located at the Kennedy Space Centre, on Merritt Island in […]