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COVID-19 vaccine

Oxford vaccine enjoys advantages in race to beat COVID-19

R. Ramachandran

Among the frontrunners in the race to defeat COVID-19, the Oxford vaccine enjoys a significant advantage as it does not require freezing temperatures

COVID-19 Update

The race for COVID-19 vaccine

R. Ramachandran

In the global scientific and commercial race for the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine, the play of geopolitics is very much in evidence as U.S.-base

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This year’s Nobel in Chemistry for a magical genetic tool: the CRISPR/Cas9 ‘scissors’

R. Ramachandran

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna jointly win this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a simple but effective method to edit th

BCG as a stopgap vaccine for COVID-19

R. Ramachandran

Studies make a case for BCG to be a bridge vaccine until a COVID-specific vaccine is developed, but larger clinical trials are needed to study the imp

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NOBEL PRIZE: Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics honours work on black holes

R. Ramachandran

For providing the theoretical and experimental basis for why black holes should, and do, exist, Roger Penrose is awarded half this year’s Nobel Prize

NOBEL PRIZE: Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine goes to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for discovering the virus that causes hepatitis C

R. Ramachandran

Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in discovering the virus

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COVID-19 vaccine research

COVID-19: Race for immunity

R. Ramachandran

The three vaccine frontrunners in India are yet to enter the most critical Phase 3 trials, but the government has given a premature assurance that a v

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Tribute: Govind Swarup

Govind Swarup (1929-2020): Star among astronomers

R. Ramachandran

Govind Swarup (1929-2020) not only built world-class radio astronomy facilities but also put India firmly on the global radio astronomy map by trainin

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Battle against COVID-19: Gaining immunity the final solution?

R. Ramachandran

The country’s public health system has failed the people miserably, as is evident from the extremely lax testing strategy in the early stages of the e

COVID-19: A chain of blunders by the Central government

R. Ramachandran

The Centre’s top-down approach to COVID-19 and its exercise of control on the release of data to the public domain have led to flawed strategies and m

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Pointers from sero-surveys conducted in various cities

R. Ramachandran

Pune and Berhampur follow the example of Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad and conduct sero-surveys among their populations. But the utility of these studie

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Seroprevalence of COVID-19

COVID-19: Indian population still far from herd immunity

R. Ramachandran

Now that there is some data in the public domain about the seroprevalence of COVID-19 in India, it is possible to say that about one out of four to fi

columns

Behemoth studios in the era of pan-Indian films

Yash Raj Films used to set trends, not follow them. Can it turn the tide?

Slideshow

Captured in time

As independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.