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A woman’s skin undergoes many changes during and after pregnancy. Credit: Freepik.

pregnancy · Life · 07 Jan 2024

Your skin during pregnancy

How does the skin seamlessly stretch and expand itself around a growing foetus as pregnancy progresses? The answer lies in the skin proteins - collagen and elastin.

Cancer vaccines may hold immense potential in cancer therapeutics. © Sunaina Rao.

cancer · Life · 07 Nov 2023

Can we get vaccinated for cancer?

Sunaina Rao

With vaccines being a medical success for over a century now, could we now use the same principle in treating cancer? - The answer is yes.

Scrambler Therapy may provide fresh hope to millions of patients with chronic pain. Credit: Freepik.

neuroscience · Life · 01 Oct 2023

Scrambler Therapy - Using electricity to treat chronic pain

Sunaina Rao

Chronic pain causes life-long distress in millions of patients worldwide. An upcoming therapeutic strategy called the Scrambler Therapy may provide fresh hope.

New research in the field of T cell cancer immunotherapy might hold promise for patients with solid tumours. Credit: Freepik.

immune system · Life · 01 Aug 2023

T Cell Cancer Immunotherapy - A new hope for cancer patients?

Sunaina Rao

Latest research in T cell cancer immunotherapy might hold promise for patients with solid tumours.

Bacterial antibiotic resistance poses a growing threat to treating bacterial infections. Understanding how bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics can be the first step in combating this longstanding problem.

bacteria · Life · 01 Jul 2023

Bacteria and their intelligent ways of escaping antibiotics - How bacteria develop antibiotic resistance

Sunaina Rao

Scientists discover a new way by which Salmonella develop antibiotic resistance.

Ronald Ross, Har Gobind Khorana and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - The three Indian Nobel Prize winners who have played an important role in helping us understand some of the fundamentals in human biology and pathology. Image by Florian Pircher from Pixabay.

nobel prize · Science Policy · 03 May 2023

Three Indian Nobel Prize winners and their remarkable contribution to medical science

Sunaina Rao

These three scientists played a significant role in helping us understand some of the fundamentals in human biology and pathology.

Learning to play a musical instrument can not only make us really happy, it can also benefit our brains in many other unusual ways. Photo by Sasha Kim on Pexels.

neuroscience · Life · 01 Apr 2023

The unusual benefits of learning to play music

Sunaina Rao

Studies show that learning to play music can change the structure of the brain and can be beneficial for everyone, from young children to the aged.

Humans and dogs have co-evolved to develop a strong bond with each other. Image by Myléne from Pixabay.

humans · Life · 01 Mar 2023

Humans and their unconditional love for dogs

Sunaina Rao

We humans seem to share a unique bond with dogs. Here are some science-backed reasons as to why this might be so.

Scientists discover that a freshwater unicellular organism belonging to the Halteria genus can reproduce by eating just viruses. Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay.

microbiology · Life · 01 Feb 2023

Consuming viruses - When the predator becomes the prey

Sunaina Rao

Scientists show that these aquatic, unicellular organisms can multiply by just eating viruses.

During the plague, panels of this kind were placed on the walls of houses to warn people about the raging plague pandemic. Credit: Wikimedia.

immune system · Life · 01 Jan 2023

The unfortunate cost of surviving the Black Death

Sunaina Rao

The bubonic plague took millions of lives in the 14th century, sparing only a lucky few. However, studies now show that surviving the plague may have come at an unfortunate cost.

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can severely impact organs like the kidneys, lungs, and heart. Patients often require organ transplantation to enhance survival. Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay.

immune system · Life · 01 Dec 2022

What is Lupus and can CAR T cell therapy help treat it?

Sunaina Rao

Scientists hack the immune system to treat the autoimmune disease – systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), also called Lupus.

Wounds are quite common in our day-to-day life. Our body heals these wounds in 4 phases. Image by cottonbro from Pexels.

immune system · Life · 01 Nov 2022

How our wounds heal themselves - The 4 phases of wound healing

Sunaina Rao

Our skin, being the outermost layer of our body, is very susceptible to wounds. Here we discuss the sophisticated mechanism by which our body heals these wounds.

Autumn is a season where the days get shorter and colder. This change affects not just plants, but animals and humans as well. Image by Gerhard from Pixabay.

seasons · Earth · 01 Oct 2022

5 unique autumn things and the science behind them

Sunaina Rao

Autumn brings with it many changes in the weather as well as in plant and animal behaviour. But why these changes and what is the science behind them?

sleep · Life · 01 Sep 2022

What spiders have taught us about sleep

Sunaina Rao

Scientists studying sleeping spiders find that they sleep very similar to humans. This reveals that sleep must have a very important role in evolution.

microbiology · Life · 01 Aug 2022

What's that black thing growing on my bread?!

Sunaina Rao

Neither a plant nor an animal, fungi are very unique organisms. The black bread mould is especially one such fungus.

Human embryonic kidney cells as seen under the microscope. These cells have a typical shape which helps perform a specific function. Credit: Wikimedia.

cells · Life · 01 Jul 2022

Why our cells need to stay in shape

Sunaina Rao

When it comes to our cells, staying in shape is very important. This is because the shape of our cells can ultimately control their function.

Carnivorous plants trap and absorb nutrition from insects and related organisms. Credit: RichardsDrawings from Pixabay.

plants · Life · 01 Mar 2022

The Genius of Carnivorous Plants

Sunaina Rao

The cunning, yet genius trapping mechanisms in carnivorous plants.

In physics, especially in cosmology, scale tells how one can understand a phenomenon or natural object. © Hermano Farias.

universe · Cosmos · 24 Jan 2022

The Simplicity of Everything

Hermano Farias

A concise introduction to cosmology and the theory behind it.

Numbers and infinity have a profound relation. © Sunaina Rao

mathematics · Cosmos · 15 Dec 2021

Somebody said infinity?

Hermano Farias

Can the concept of infinity be properly understood, discussed and compared? This question may sound purely philosophical, but it isn’t in fact. Here I discuss infinity a little.