Think of a world where you can taste words. Jail tastes like cold hard bacon or college tastes like sausage. A place where music is seen and colors are heard, where every note appears as a flash of hue before your eyes. Where words, numbers or letters invoke colors or even a personality. Hate the …
Food is the ultimate source of energy for every living organism (not the autotrophs who are the chefs of the food chain), and it forms a fundamental part of our lifestyle. Not just for nutrition, we foodies just love trying out new delicacies around, because we live to eat! However, at times, this ritual of …
The start In Copenhagen 1958, researchers found out a “pox-like” disease in captive monkeys. Around the same time in 1959, the World Health Organization started a global campaign to eradicate small pox, a deadly disease which killed more than 300 million people since the 1900s alone. As the efforts for eradication of small pox started …
~ The role antidepressants play in curing depression Pair an impressionable mind like mine with the heightened representation of mental illnesses in mainstream media and I find myself in an inconsequential cycle of self-diagnosis and overthinking, like most kids on the internet. This influx of information and excessive romanticism can definitely cause you to …
COVID-19 is one of the biggest global health crises of the 21st century. This pandemic has had severe and far-reaching impacts on the health system, economies, and societies. Countless people have died. They lost their livelihood. Families have been strained. The majority of the population is thrown below the poverty line. The young population have …
Diabetes is one of the most widely discussed diseases of the 21st century. Since almost everyone has known a diabetic at some point in their lives , words like “blood sugar” and “insulin” have now become common dinner conversation. Let us dive into all that it entails. Whenever you eat carbohydrates (such as bread, pasta …
In 2022, India faced the hottest April since the last 121 years. A notification popped on my phone’s screen. I blankly nodded as this April was unquestionably hot for me. My mind whispered back to me, “Climate change is real, Apoorva!”. You have read about it in the books, but it is really happening right …
A neurodegenerative disease that spreads? That too with the help of prions? Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a disease that primarily affects cattle but it affects humans as well. The study of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or its human counterpart Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) is important because of its very unusual causative agent; prion. Bovine Spongiform …
Viruses are as old as the earth, but cannot be traced back due to their lack of inhabitance as a living cell. The presence of nucleic material is the reason why they are described as organisms on the edge of life. Out of the 219 species of virus, the first one to be discovered was …
A type of disease wherein the cells of the Central Nervous System stop working or die is known as Neurodegenerative disease. It may be caused due to genetics, by the environment you are in or by a stroke or tumor. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) are the most common neurological conditions caused by …
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