Tuberculosis, caused by the infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis remained as a major global health challenge with one third of world population being infected by this pathogen. M. tuberculosis can persist for decades ...

Meiosis is a specialized type of cell division where two rounds of chromosome segregation follow a single round of DNA duplication resulting in the formation of four haploid daughter cells. Once the DNA replication is ...

H. pylori has a panmictic population structure due to high genetic diversity. The homoplasy index for H. pylori is 0.85 (where 0 represents a completely clonal organism and 1.0 indicates a freely recombining organism) which ...

Although the molecular mechanisms underlying the onset and progression of cancer has been unraveled to a great extend, cancer continues to remain a leading cause of death around the world. Clinical efficacy of the existing ...

Malaria accounts for 198 million cases worldwide; with a high mortality rate. 584000 deaths were reported in 2013. Malaria is a re-emerging disease globally due to drug resistance, parasite recrudescence and non-availability ...

Mitochondrion is an endosymbiotic organelle synthesizing ~1% of its proteome, while remaining ~99% of the proteins are encoded by the nuclear genome and translated on the cytosolic ribosome. Therefore active mitochondrial ...