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Pregnant women more vulnerable to Hepatitis E-induced liver failure

November 19, 2012
July 28 is World Hepatitis Day. In one of the widest single-centre studies conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, it was found that water-borne Hepatitis E was the basic cause of acute liver …

Scientists inject E.coli with ancient gene to figure out evolution

July 13, 2012
 The modern day E.coli bug has been transformed to identify its evolutionary trajectory. US researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day E. coli bug to see whether the …