How Can We Improve the Prospects of India’s Women in STEM?
The Science Policy Forum has been conducting a series of panel discussions entitled ‘STIP 2020: Across the Table’, to collect public and
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ONE BUG, MANY LIVES
Found among the top three ranks in WHO’s priority list for pathogens, Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of those bacteria against which medical and scientific institutions around the world have struggled over the last few decades. In that time, it has evolved into some of the most virulent and antibiotic resistant microbes that infect humans. Some of these versions of K.pneumoniae, also called strains or genotypes, have been responsible for multinational disease outbreaks across the globe. Scientists and doctors around the world are also worried that microbes like K.pneumoniae might pose a greater risk to human health, after our struggles against COVID-19.
Taking Center Stage: The Age of the Bacteriophage
Written by: Muskan Gupta, Rohit R. Gokhale Edited by: Abhishek Chari Disease-causing bacteria have always been a thorn in humanity’s
Indian SciComm Letter
This is an open call to promote initiatives that make the Indian SciComm community more inclusive, by recognising and supporting its current diversity of agents and efforts.
Seeing Is Believing – The Women of ISRO
Living and working for over 400 days on Earth’s coldest continent, Antarctica, Mangala Mani helped collect valuable data from India’s
Autoimmune Disease – Understanding the Skynet of our Medical Future
Written by Kaushik Eswaran In decades past, a cross section of medical ailments found in India would contain many of
A Soupçon of SciComm with V. Deepak on Convergent Evolution
Who are you and what do you do? My name is V. Deepak, and I am a herpetologist. I
It takes two to…Rehabilitate
The legendary Muhammad Ali was so fast in the boxing ring, you couldn’t see his punches coming. In the last
Music in the time of hearing loss
by Amrita Anand Ludwig van Beethoven’s symphonies are celebrated masterpieces of Western classical music. But, did you know that he
A Soupçon of SciComm with Vivek Nityananda on stereo vision in Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis (Photograph by Patrick Kavanagh) Who are you and what do you do? I am Vivek Nityananda, Postdoctoral