(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”
Category Archives: Ideas of health
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”
On Vaxxed
The man who linked AUTISM to MMR vaccine In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist had published a paper in the Lancet. It claimed that there was a link between the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), and Autism and Bowel Disease. It took 6 years for the GMC ( British Medical Council )Continue reading “On Vaxxed”
The Hippocampus
Here’s me.( Pic of my brain rather ) and in the 1st pic I’m looking to your left. My left ear would be right in the middle of this picture. Notice the green portion of the brain: this is my temporal lobe.It lies right under my temple and keeps a lot of remembering that IContinue reading “The Hippocampus”
How Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur changed the world ?
On the occasion of World TB day. Robert Koch, A doctor with a small rural practice in Germany, was the first scientist to firmly establish the link between germs and disease. Prior to him people believed that disease occurred due to bad air. People even used to think that maggots found in rotting meat developedContinue reading “How Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur changed the world ?”