Vaccine confusion India and COVID-19: Government's vaccination drive a total mess R. Ramachandran The government’s vaccination drive has been fraught with deficiencies in communication and ...
Politics drives India's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic even as questions over DCGI's approvals for vaccines persist R. Ramachandran The approval process for the two vaccines released for Restricted Emergency Use once again ...
COVID-19 Update The emergence of two new variants of the virus poses concern amid plans for the roll-out of vaccines R. Ramachandran A global second wave of infection spread with the new UK-variant is possible unless the ...
COVID-19 Update Safety concerns delay vaccine approval in India R. Ramachandran No vaccine has yet been approved for public use in India on account of inadequate data on ...
COVID-19 Update Will antibodies be able to protect us from COVID-19? R. Ramachandran Researchers try to answer this question by analysing data in a follow-up to the ...
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 ...
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, ...
Nobel Prize 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 ...
COVID vaccine 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Cover Story 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 ...
COVID-19 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 ...
