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"This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: the "gene," the fundamental unit of heredity, and the basic unit of all biological information. I" ~Siddhartha Mukherjee There can be nothing better than reading books but it becomes quite a luxury when we add the time constraint. Having oversubscribed myself to quite a good number of magazines, I find it hard to commit myself for a book. However, the other day while browsing through the non-fiction section of the Public Library I stumbled upon the second book by Siddhartha Mukherjee; The Gene: An Intimate History.   The author has mathematically noted down each milestone in genetic science in this book, rather descriptively. But with all this, the author ensures that his readers do not lose their focus from the fact that study of genes is not anymore just a progressive or evolutionary aspect in science and medicines, rather it is a s...

Hiiiii....... Reader's It feels so good to write here, after a long (so long, in fact) gap. How are you all doing? I’m doing great, did you know, I'm near about Final year of my course since I wrote a post here. And now, got time to share with you. me trying to keep me busy with books for Competitive exams like ICAR-AGRIL, JNU like university for  M.Tech (Biotechnology) This is time for valentine search ! For the valentine's day, we youngster's use to celebrate this day like a festival Many ppl around us  celebrate Valentine's Day by showing appreciation for the people they love or adore. Some people take their loved ones for a romantic dinner at a restaurant or Give chocolate ; Most all of us love the taste of chocolate, you may find lucky if u got such gift on such special occasion ;  but for some it means someone may get hurt! no need to get hurt we can buy and enjoy from any shop (like me do always) Chocolate is a traditional Valentine's Day gift, in ...

Let it be any disease, ranging from a fever (which is the symptom of many diseases) to HIV, diagnosis at an early stage is very important for giving specific treatment.Whenever I go to a doctor, he asks me things like, stomach pain, fever, body pain, head ache, running nose, throat pain etc., then, he checks pulse, then he uses his stethoscope, he then gives all the possible antibiotics! Yes, really, this happens in most cases. Then, if my problem is not fixing up in a week, he'll ask me to take a blood test, this, that, and, all! Nothing wrong in this, because he can't ask everyone coming to him to take blood test at the very first sitting, then, no one will visit him back saying he sucks out blood all the time! But, it is okay to have a blood test after a week, but, not after a month! Diagnosing a disease after it had reached a severe stage is comparatively less significant than diagnosing at an early stage. So, how to diagnose? Antigen - Antibody! Antigen and Antibody in...