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shimonakanwar
(Journalist with Times of India. Writes on health, science and communities.Views expressed are personal.)
Chandigarh has the potential to lead in scientific innovation and can even go ahead of Switzerland, a country that tops the innovation chart globally, according to Prof K VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Rahul Gandhi's meeting with a group of ‘Muslim intellectuals' this week has sent the Bharatiya Janata Party into apoplexy. Muslim Appeasement! Election strategy! Secret meeting! Dividing India! Communal disharmony! A new partition! O my…
On Sunday, in the fifty-second minute of the final game of the World Cup, four women dressed in Russian police uniforms charged the field, briefly disrupting the match. They were members of the Russian protest-art group Pussy Riot. Pussy Riot is…
The New York Times
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Gina Kolata
– Jul 9, 11:30 PM
When Georgia Bowen was born by emergency cesarean on May 18, she took a breath, threw her arms in the air, cried twice, and went into cardiac arrest. The baby had had a heart attack, most likely while she was still in the womb. Her heart was…
The New York Times
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Gina Kolata
– Jul 11, 10:14 AM
For the first time, scientists have found a way to efficiently and precisely remove genes from white blood cells of the immune system and to substitute beneficial replacements, all in far less time than it normally takes to edit genes. If the…
