Friday, June 13, 2025

Genomic Editor goes Personal

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Decades long intense  research  of Jennifer Dou dna and Emmanuelle Charpentier   culminated  in  Nobel Prize  in Chemistry in 2020.  The du...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Whom Pressure wouldn't squash , Fire wouldn't burn

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Tardigrade   Courtesy: EnWikipedia  Spineless  and tiny  it maybe,  but  the Tardigrade has shot into fame. Readers of the Guardian have  vo...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Babes in the Digital Woods

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 " L ucid, Memorable, Galvanizing". That is how  The Wallstreet Journal  described  the    book :   The  Anxious Mind- How  the gr...
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Sunday, June 5, 2022

Cosmetic Dentistry : The Mayan Style

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Mayan area    Courtesy Simon Burchell, wikipedia  Mayan civilization  flourished   in and around Yucatan peninsula in Central America for al...
Sunday, March 6, 2022

Of Pests and Pest Management

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Potato traces its origin to  the Andes, in South America.   Centuries ago, the humble crop crossed the Atlantic sea and reached Europe. Sinc...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

COVID Vaccine Stories III: The Inequity Factor

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By now all (scientists included)   are  resigned to the fact   that  COVID-19  is here to stay  and  that we must learn to live with it.  We...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Covid-19 Vaccine Stories: II: The Inimitable Cuban Style

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When Covid-19 struck, Cuba knew it will have to fight alone, because the sixty year old economic embargo by the mighty United States  preven...