ISSN: 2456-7264 | Issue – 30 | Published On 19/09/2024 |
The readers might be aware of Yayati, the Puranic king and son of King Nahusha and his wife Ashokasundari, daughter of Lord Shiva and Parvati, who was one of the ancestors of Pandavas. As the story goes, Yayati swapped his old age with his youngest son, Puru and remained young
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“There is no stupid question, it is better to be stupid once in life rather remaining throughout” Though we all know DNA structure is a right handed double helix, many of us will not be able to differentiate correctly a right handed double helix from a left handed one. There are
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A world without bacteria and other microbes wouldn’t support life as we know it. We and other animals would not be able to digest food without the microscopic creatures, which live in our gut microbiomes. Each of us hosts some 40 trillion bacteria in our own personal biomes - some suggest
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A healthy life is dream for all and a universal goal. Infection is inconvenient; it affects our lifestyle, disrupts the equality of life and shortens the life. Sulfur mustard (Cl-CH2CH2)2S is one of the cytotoxic organic compounds. It is a bifunctional alkyl ting agent which is also called as a Mustard gas
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Introduction: It is a malignant tumour of nasopharynx; squamous cell variety is the commonest. This is common in yellow races, but incidence in India is also quite high. It commonly occurs in elderly persons between 50-60 years of age. In Afro-Asian countries incidence below 30 years of age is rather
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Prologue I had an opportunity to listen to a talk delivered by the Padma Bhusan P. Balram, IISc Bangalore, India on one of the foundation day lectures of Institute of Advanced Studies in Science and Technology (IASST), Guwahati, India. The talk had covered proteinaceous toxins (prTs) produced by animals. Interestingly many
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A hospital-acquired infection (HAI), also known as a nosocomial infection, is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other health care facility. An infection is considered nosocomial if it develops in a patient who has been hospitalized for 48 to 72 hours and the same infection was not
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Noni, popularly known as Indian Mulberry (Family: Rubiaceae), is a ‘wonderful medicinal plant’ which is being used as a source of medicine in many of the traditional health management systems. NONI can be elaborated as N-Natural, O-Oxidative stress reducer, N-Nutritional supplement, I-Immune enhancer. It is an evergreen small tree distributed
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Historical Perspective The original concept of the pharmacophore was developed by Paul Ehrlich during the late 1800s. At that time, the understanding was that certain “chemical groups” or functions in a molecule were responsible for a biological effect, and molecules with similar effect had similar functions in common. The word pharmacophore was
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Genome-wide association study (GWAS) approach has facilitated the unbiased association of the entire human genome to diseases. The completion of the human genome project has instigated the development of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) which enhanced the practice of genetic screening, diagnosis and treatment (Wu et al., 2009). Through the
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