The 2019 novel coronavirus, officially called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a virus that has taken the world by storm. Similar to the 2002-2003 SARS virus (about 80%) which attained worldwide attention when in killed over 770 people, COVID-19 has crossed 64,000 infected people and over 1400 deaths as of February the …
Category Archives: Life Science
Artificial Intelligence workshop
Humankind never stops innovating, and one of the technologies that is driving innovation is artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is predicted to cause a paradigm shift in the way medicine and healthcare works . Since it’s never a bad idea to get yourself upto date with the latest technologies, I decided to participate in a 10 …
Artificial Intelligence and how babies learn to walk
I recently undertook a ten day artificial intelligence course that was conducted by Stanford grad students and alumni. The experience was pretty great, and I learnt everything from python programming to the applications of AI (I’ll be covering more on the course in the next post). My course mainly focused on machine learning (ML), which …
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My visit to the body world exhibition
It’s not very often that one gets a glimpse of what it looks like inside the human body. There’s only one place you can actually see that – an Operating Theatre (or a dissection room, for that matter). I’d had already seen live operations, but the Body Worlds Plastination exhibition in Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi …
Vaping- the man made epidemic
While going through the news a few days earlier, I was surprised to see that the world’s first double lung transplant due to vaping was performed recently. This wasn’t, of course, very surprising- it has been proven that E-cigarettes contain toxic substances like Nicotine, Glycerol, heavy metals and Carcinogens, which makes them a perfect recipe …
My Internship
While having a passion for a certain future job is certainly good, it always helps if one gets first-hand experience as to what the job entails. I’ve had some seniors who had a future goal in mind, but decided that the job was just too boring for them. I myself was pretty sure that medicine …
The Nobel prize for Medicine, 2019
The Nobel for medicine has been awarded to a scientist trio- Dr. William G. Kaelin, from Harvard University, Dr. Peter Ratcliffe from the UK’s University of Oxford, and Dr. Gregg L. Semenza from Johns Hopkins University. Their research on how cells adapt to various levels of oxygen availability has opened up many new ways to fight often fatal diseases …
Physics in Human Body
Physics and biology are two subjects that I enjoy learning- one tasks your mind and makes it solve complex problems while the other teaches you about life and how it functions. Naturally, learning a topic that involves a great deal of both the subjects is immensely interesting, and I had the privilege to do exactly …
Action in the Biology lab
It’s back to school and we’ve started with some rather interesting experiments in the bio lab This term’s syllabus includes plant tissues, and as a part of the chapter we are creating sections of monocot and dicot stems for examination under the microscope. This is a monocot stem cross section that I made in the …
My visit to the Natural History Museum, Vienna
Boasting 8500 square meters filled with ancient biological objects, the Natural History Museum Vienna is one of the largest and most important natural history museums in the world. My visit to this museum was a truly amazing one – I was able to see thousands of prehistoric objects such as fossils, primitive human skeletons, objects …
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A scissor for genes
Diseases like Cystic Fibrosis and Muscular dystrophy have devastating effects on the human body. Any individual who has these genetic defects leads a life of misery and pain. While previously thought to be untreatable, a new breakthrough in genetic science known as CRISPR has finally created becons of hope for patients with genetic disease. I …
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