Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania and Rice University have refined a technology for editing individual genetic ...

Beyond JEE 2026: Five IIT Programs That Offer Admission Without JEE Scores

IITs now offer various programs that do not require JEE scores, such as executive robotics (IIT Delhi), genetic engineering (IIT Guwahati), engineering mathematics (IIT Kharagpur), thermodynamics (IIT ...
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If you complete these courses, you'll get admission into IIT without the JEE Main exam. See the full list

These institutes now offer short-term and certificate courses in advanced fields like data science, artificial intelligence, ...
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Can you get into IIT without JEE Main? 5 IIT courses you can join in 2026

Beyond the JEE route, IITs are opening new pathways through online and executive courses in AI, robotics, biotechnology, and programming. Several programmes are available without JEE scores, with ...

IIT courses that don’t require JEE Main scores

From data science and artificial intelligence to machine learning, robotics, virtual and augmented reality, and UX strategy, IITs equip learners with industry-ready skills and bypass the traditional ...
The Guardian

Google DeepMind launches AI tool to help identify genetic drivers of disease

AlphaGenome can analyse up to 1m letters of DNA code at once and could pave way for new treatments Researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled their latest artificial intelligence tool and claimed it ...
Metro

New virus with genetic code written by AI ‘is first step towards lab-grown life’

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to create a new virus to attack a colony of the deadly E.coli bacteria. The ...
Phys.org

Uncovering a new genetic code in archaea opens doors for bioengineering applications

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...
C&EN

These archaea built a distinct genetic code to put pyrrolysine in proteins

There are few hard and fast rules in the study of life, but perhaps the closest we get is the central dogma of molecular biology: DNA is transcribed to RNA, which gets translated into proteins. The ...
techtimes

CRISPR Technology Explained: The Science of Gene Editing, DNA Modification, and Genetic Engineering Ethics Uncovered

Discover how scientists are harnessing the power of CRISPR to precisely edit DNA, revolutionizing medicine and ethics as they rewrite the very code of life. Pixabay, PublicDomainPictures CRISPR ...
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The Geometric Code: Genome’s 3D Shape Functions as the Living Computer that Enabled Complex Life

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?