Govt will soon deregulate uplinking of satellite TV channels: I&B secretary

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CRISPR gene-editing possible in temperature-sensitive organisms, plants: RRI

Furthering research in the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) gene-editing technology that bagged the Nobel Prize in 2020, Indian scientists have demonstrated for the first time that the associated Cas9 enzyme, which acts as molecular scissors to cut DNA at a location specified by a guide RNA, can bind to and cut the target DNA at very low temperatures.

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First test-flight of Gaganyaan mission in February: Isro official

Speaking at the India Space Congress on Thursday, Umamaheswaran said, “Gaganyaan is not an Indian mission but an international programme as it involves collaboration with several countries like Russia, France and Australia for astronaut training and getting components for the mission.” In the space sector, India has around 250 MoUs with more than 61 countries, he added.

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Isro building a cost-effective future rocket to fulfil industry demand: Agency chief

Speaking at the India Space Congress here, Isro chairman S Somanath revealed on Wednesday that "a team in Isro has started working on defining the design of a rocket. We want to build a cost-effective and reliable rocket in partnership with the industry that has expertise in this domain. Once the design is ready, we will seek inputs from the industry.

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NASA instrument detects dozens of methane super-emitters from space

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