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saliansmita
May 01, 2021
In Academics
#covid19vacccine myth busters 1. Vaccines are safe, considering the millions of people around the world who have been safely vaccinated is a Fact. 2. It takes 2 weeks for your immunity to develop against covid after second dose.Your immunity is not weakened by vaccines. 3. All approved vaccines are safe. It’s a layered process for approvals. If you get Pfizer, J and J, Moderna or even AstraZeneca. AZ has clot issues but these are lower than the regular reported baseline values. 4. Getting second dose dosent make you immune to covid immediately. After two weeks too, continue wearing your masks and social distance. This is to reduce the cases and help our medical staff. 5. Vaccines do not affect fertility in males or females. It does not affect menstrual cycles. Cycles that may have been delayed are easily influenced by diet, exercise and stress. So please take a vaccine. 6. You are not immune to Covid after infection. This is a viral disease and antibodies are cleared in 4-8 weeks so if you get exposed again it will be more fatal. Please do not educate yourself on WhatsApp university. If you have any medical professionals in your family do talk to them to clear myths. Do keep fever reducers, oxygen checking instruments, thermometers handy and monitor yourself closely if you are positive. Currently in India there is a struggle to find hospitals, beds, oxygen so let’s take the utmost care to educate and break myths. Please do not spread wrong information. I am a scientist by profession and above opinion comes after 15+years in scie and research. mask up, vaccinate and stay safe
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saliansmita
Oct 08, 2020
In Success Stories
Congratulations  to the trio for discovery of Hepatitis C, a virus that results in liver cirrhosis and cancer. It’s a disease that has impacted millions world wide and till date blood test and diagnosis was only possible because of their work 31 years back in the journal science. Equally important is the discovery of antivirals by chemists who made it possible to treat all the genotypes of this virus,that makes a person HCV free. An elegant combination of academic and industry that impacts patients lives in general. Here is the paper for which they received the Nobel Prize. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2523562/ Disclaimer:Above opinions are personal and do not represent my employer.
Nobel in Medicine  content media
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saliansmita
Oct 08, 2020
In Success Stories
Congratulations for the Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for a novel gene editing method called “CRISPRCas9” (discovered in 2012).These genetic scissors that can cut DNA at specific locations was originally discovered in a bacteria( they are part of their immune system) are being used to treat genetic disorders(sickle cell anemia),HIV, design new cancer therapies and many more. There is a patent dispute ongoing as 7 months after their discovery Zhangs group showed this can be used a double molecule method for eukaryote/human cell system, thus amplifying the value of this discovery. However, the original discovers maintained that they had stated how to apply it in their original work. It’s a very recent technology and it’s still in primitive stages, but good to see such encouragement.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020 goes to..... content media
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