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The founder of DBT Labs, Tristan Handy, says moving at his own pace fostered innovation and growth—it can feel antithetical to the strategies of Google and Meta.

Eight-year-old Luke Albiston O’Donnell died in hospital after an e-bike on charge in the front room of his house in Merseyside caught fire in August.

MoST seeks to raise retirement age of scientists to 65 to stem flight of top scientists to universities/IITs. Proposal under discussion; DBT has sent details of eligible scientists for evaluation. Government has previously mooted raising retirement age to bring parity in service conditions. Modi govt. has done away with extensions,…

So-called ‘drip pricing’ is costing UK consumers £1.6 billion a year online, the Government said.

“The proposition of a project proposal is very important. The intention may be very good, but how are you positioning it? You should be articulate to defend your proposal in terms of positioning, thinking process,“ said Mohammad Aslam, consultant (DBT-ILS) and former adviser, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science…

In April 2023, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) issued the ‘Guidelines for Genetically Engineered (GE) Insects’. They provide procedural roadmaps for those interested in creating GE insects. They have three problems for researchers, discussed in the article.

The companies are among 200 others that have been "named and shamed" by the Department for Business and Trade

The companies are among 200 others that have been "named and shamed" by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) for short-changing staff between 2017 and 2019

India’s first indigenous mRNA vaccine for the Omicron variant, GEMCOVAC-OM, developed by Pune-based Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd, was approved under emergency use guidelines by the Drug Controller General of India late on June 19. This comes a year after the company got approval for GEMCOVAC-19, the country’s first m-RNA vaccine against…