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Sandipan Talukdar
COVID19: What Do Mutation Studies of the Virus Reveal?
16 Jul 2020
To probe whether the dominant G variant, which was absent four months back, can actually cause greater transmissibility of the novel coronavirus in real life, one way is to conduct experiments on…
Sandipan Talukdar
T Cells and Herd Immunity: How Far Can We Depend on it?
14 Jul 2020
The T cell immune response and its link to herd immunity needs more and more systematic studies that incorporate large cohort of population in different geographical and environmental locations…
Sandipan Talukdar
Six Months of Pandemic: What Science Still Strives to Solve
08 Jul 2020
Whether there are any genetic links with the severity of the disease, the involvement of an intermediate species as the source of origin, the nature of antibodies formed due to the disease and the…
Sandipan Talukdar
Plants and Photosynthetic Bacteria Harvest Solar Energy with Remarkable Ability of Selecting Light of Specific Wavelength
01 Jul 2020
The new model, proposed by physicist Nathaniel Gabor, shows that by absorbing only very specific colours of light, photosynthetic organisms may automatically protect themselves against sudden changes…
Sandipan Talukdar
COVID-19 and Some of the Significant Research Findings
30 Jun 2020
Some patients have developed diabetes post COVID-19 and some have shown high blood sugar levels and ketones.
Sandipan Talukdar
Light From Black Hole Collisions Detected for First Time
29 Jun 2020
It was first identified by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory of the National Science Foundation along with the European Virgo Detector on May 21, 2019 and has been named as…
Sandipan Talukdar
COVID-19 ‘Medicine’: Patanjali Needs to Answer Some Tough Questions
24 Jun 2020
What specific component in Patanjali’s medicines can counter the attack of the virus is not known.
Sandipan Talukdar
Why do we Still Believe Myths around Solar Eclipses?
22 Jun 2020
Our past is littered with stories of those who paid a heavy price for advocating for rationality over myths. We need to choose the right path.
Sandipan Talukdar
How Landscape Helped Land Animals Evolve Cognitive Ability of Planning Better Than Aquatic Counterparts
19 Jun 2020
The new study found that landscape characteristics provided the land animals the edge to develop planning ability, which is required in the lands with a mix of plain, vegetation, hills, water etc.
Sandipan Talukdar
COVID-19: Readily Available Steroid Dexamethasone Can Reduce Deaths in Critical Patients, Finds UK Study
17 Jun 2020
It found that administering dexamethasone could reduce deaths by one-third in patients under ventilators, the press statement of the study said on June 16.