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DNA holds secret to beating cancer

THE cells of all living organisms carry within them a microscopic blueprint of life, deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. This genetic material stores and regulates essential information governing cell growth, development, structure, maintenance and disease. Human DNA, comprising around 3.2 billion sequences of four chemical bases — adenine, guanine, cytosine and...

Govt should investigate dengue further for better management

AN INCREASING number of death from dengue infection may have been the result, as experts believe, of mutation in both the dengue virus and its vector — primarily, Aedes aegypti. As dengue virus has its genome based on ribonucleic acid which can mutate fast to adapt to adverse conditions, experts say that such...