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Lessons from Ebola

Down a dirt path outside of the village of Meliandou in Guinea once stood a tall, hollow tree where children used to play. They used to catch bats in its hollow trunk. The village was strategically located because an urban point linking 3 countries ie Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia was nearby and had anContinue reading “Lessons from Ebola”

The Spanish Flu (1918-1919)

( Another Pandemic, another memory ) History repeats itself because man makes the same mistakes. Exactly 100 years back, in a March afternoon in 1917, an American doctor in Texas noticed that people were dying from a new disease. A deadly flu was rapidly spreading. But nobody would listen to him. He was silenced byContinue reading “The Spanish Flu (1918-1919)”

The Fall of Hubei

The Fall of the Incas. Incas of Peru were a great civilization. In fact they were the greatest empire of the sixteenth century world. They had an army of 80,000. In 1525, they had an unusual visitor. It was only a small group of Spanish explorer. But one of the Spaniard was infected with smallContinue reading “The Fall of Hubei”

CRISPR CAS9-2

(Know your Body with Dr RK Mahapatra.) CRISPR CAS9 is the new Gene editing program which is going to change the next generation of human race. Just like vaccination wiped out Small pox, Poliomyelitis from the face of Earth, it has the power to delete genetic diseases and cancers afflicting the humanity. In contrast toContinue reading “CRISPR CAS9-2”

CRISPR/Cas9-1

Consider this: Our body has 30 trillion cells. Each of these 30 trillion cells has a central nucleus. Inside it, there are books of chromosomes that store all the information that makes us who we are. They code for our height, our color of hair, color of eyes, intelligence, aggressive behavior, volatile nature, everything. TheyContinue reading “CRISPR/Cas9-1”