Science of Umbilical cord blood banking
This is a must read for Expectant parents. One must know all about umbilical cord blood and their advantages and disadvantages, before heading to cord blood bank. One should be aware of the truth...
Category: Wellness & Science
Do you Remember Dolly ?. Not Dolly Parton
Dolly the sheep, made from breast cells, was famously named after Dolly Parton, the American singer known for her large chest as well as her voice. Dolly was the first example of successful cloning...
Vaccines: Read this before you head to your doctor for next shot
Vaccines have been a great life saver. It’s been around from the time Edward Jenner demonstrated in 1798 that we could prevent smallpox in humans through vaccination. The number of disease cases starts to...
It’s Cheese all the way….Cheese Science, Story and Snooping
Cheese is a common food and have found its way into our kitchen at breakfast as cheese slice, cheese omelets; during lunch and dinner as salad ingredient, in pasta, pizza, burger, dosa and more and...
Former US President Barack Obama have nine different creatures named after him !
Barack Obama left the white house on 20th of Jan 2017. He finished his presidential tenure and is headed on his new journey to become ‘Citizen Barack Obama‘. He may or may not have...
Boat clinic – “a ship of hope in a valley of flood”
There are about 2,400 small and medium island villages in Assam on the Brahmaputra inhabited by a population of about 3 million. They are locally called chars or saporisas in Assam. They represent 8 percent of...
Why people like action movies: Some science to it
Action movie have been always a safe bet for movie producers, though the budget involved in making a perfect one is too high keeping in mind they have to burn several trucks and collapse...
Roast potatoes ‘a potential cancer risk’
Potatoes and Acrylamide Acrylamide is a chemical used primarily as a building block in making polyacrylamide and acrylamide copolymers. They have proven without doubt to be causing cancer in animal models. Scientist believe that...
Ice Cream and Science
Everyone loves to eat ice cream. Its smooth texture, sweet taste and rich flavor makes it a perfect dessert. Did you know that chemistry plays a great deal in making the ice cream perfect...
Food we eat can contribute towards Climate Change
Food’s carbon footprint, or Foodprint, is the greenhouse gas emissions produced by growing, rearing, farming, processing, transporting, storing, cooking and disposing of the food you eat. How the food is grown or raised and...
