It’s not everyday that you get to have a relaxed, inspirational and informal almost one-on-one chat for an hour with a Nobel Prize winner. Yet that was what it was today morning, when me and just three other students in a small room spent an hour talking about everything under the sun with Peter Agre, [...]
Back in the days when I was still cutting classes and fortifying my immune system by hanging out in the university cafeteria, one of the running departmental jokes among my friends was about the decrepit-looking old building designated “nuclear chemistry”, a remnant of the sometime heyday of that science when a well-known nuclear chemist had [...]
Usually we are cautioned not to kill the messenger, but in the case of James Watson’s remarks, it seems a little disturbing to me that people are trying to kill the message along with the messenger. The problem with this is that it can very well preempt and halt all scientific research investigating differences in [...]
A very disappointing piece of news has just emerged; the most promising vaccine for HIV has just failed to show any significant effects. Researchers had pinned their hopes on the trial of the vaccine, which involved more than a thousand volunteers. The titlehead of the news piece announcing this in Science was a revealing photo- [...]
Curcuminised Chicken
There are two articles in the journal Cell this week, which talk about the value of traditional medicine, especially Ayurveda, in modern drug discovery and medicine. The articles are encouraging, and they essentially say that modern pharma is now actively pursuing the development of some of the medicines. There are five molecules cited which [...]