Ideas of health – Page 7 – Dr Ramakanta's Ideas

The first Painless Surgery

Those Barber Surgeons Those were the days when as you went for a hair cut, your barber would trim your hairs inside your nose, pick any thing stuck inside your ear canal as he would use a sharp blade to pare your nails. Barbers were adept in using sharp blades on human skin. They wouldContinue reading “The first Painless Surgery”

Pandemic to Endemic and so on..

As I scanned through the daily covid-19 figures of our zone, I got a pleasant surprise. Even the new Covid-19 cases in the country has fallen below 10,000. Does it mean the present wave has come to an end ? There are too many caveats in this statement. Today Covid-19 has settled down to aContinue reading “Pandemic to Endemic and so on..”

Vaccination and R0

The basic aim of vaccination is to reduce the R naught (R0) factor of a pathogen. r k mahapatra R0 is a measure of transmissibility of the virus. It is always observed that whenever a new pathogen enters a closed community, say an isolated island, it rapidly infects a large number of the residents causingContinue reading “Vaccination and R0”

Everybody likes a Good Pandemic

Year 2019 was devastating for all biotech start ups. Shares of the most established companies dealing with biotech Pharma products had nose dived. Stephan Bancel, the CEO of a little known mRNA company was worried sick. The company’s shares are trading 35% below its initial value. Developing a new drug molecule consumes billions of dollars.Continue reading “Everybody likes a Good Pandemic”

Katalin Kariko

There is hardly any difference between a RNA virus and a mRNA vaccine. Both consist of a strand of RNA surrounded by a lipid envelop. RNA viruses are there for billions of years infecting all forms of life, algae, plants and animals. Thus life has developed astute mechanism of shaking of unwanted RNAs. Every tissueContinue reading “Katalin Kariko”