Arun Sreenivasan, New Delhi (Pharmabiz.com)

A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to further strengthen the cooperation and collaboration between the UNESCO and the Govt. of India, and for continuing the recognition of the Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) by UNESCO as a category-II centre, was signed between the UNESCO and the Govt. of India on 11th April, 2018 in the Department of Biotechnology (DBT). Mr. Shigeru Aoyagi (Director, UNESCO, New Delhi) and Dr. Renu Swarup (Secretary, DBT, Govt. of India) signed the agreement. Present on this occasion were Prof. Sudhanshu Vrati (Executive Director, RCB), Mr. B.

A new study by Dr. Sam Mathew and his group at Regional Centre for Biotechnology has brought in fresh insights on potential therapeutic intervention for rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), an aggressive and highly malignant cancer. For more details follow the links below,

Dr. Nair's recent work titled "Pyrophosphate hydrolysis is an intrinsic and critical step of the DNA synthesis reaction"is published in Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) as a Breakthrough Article. Breakthrough Articles represent the top 2-3% of NAR papers in terms of originality, significance and scientific excellence