The Rushikesh Tahakik Blog

Time for a different type of HERD IMMUNITY!🐄 Last week it was reported that a biopharmaceutical company in the US are using genetically modified cows to produce antibodies that could help us to fight COVID-19. I was intrigued when I saw the headline so had to do some more digging. As coronavirus marches around the globe, a sleepy town on the rugged Maine coast has become an unlikely nucleus in researchers’ efforts to combat the disease, known as COVID-19. The Jackson Laboratory, a is rushing to produce stocks of a transgenic animal that scientists hope will help them to understand the virus. . So what makes cows so special? Cows make good antibody factories, and not just because they have more blood than smaller animals engineered to synthesize human versions of the proteins. Their blood can also contain twice as many antibodies per millilitre as human blood Well, they actually produce a load of antibodies. Because they have more blood than humans but they can also produce twice as ma...

UPASC- 2020 Receiving best poster award                            In the picture, I am with, Capt. Vikas Gupta, Dr I.N. Mukherjees, Dr P.K Singh,  Professor IAS BHU, &  Dr Trilochan Mahapatra, well-known biotechnologist and Plant Breeder and DG of ICAR, Delhi                      5 th UTTAR PRADESH AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE CONGRESS 2020   (UPASC-20) is UPCAR and Agricultural Research Council of India organised symposium (happened month of February, late post, because I just got the time to share). The symposium was supported by five major agriculture institute in India which includes NABARD, International Potato Research Center, IARI, New Delhi, UPCAR, IAS BHU, Looking back, I feel like I have improved my presentation skills over time since I joined Masters. Before comi...

Tuberculosis & COVID-19 Pandemic Corona-viruses are a large family of viruses that usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses, like the common cold, in people. There are hundreds of corona-viruses, most of which circulate among animals including pigs, camels, bats, and cats. Sometimes those viruses jump to humans—called a spillover event—and can cause disease. After a Pandemic outbreak from china, The disease is now called COVID-19 .  The virus has caused a widespread outbreak of disease similar to SARS throughout China, with exported cases occurring in 183 other countries, including India.  Ultrastructure of  COVID-19 But, you need not suffer from this evil COVID-19, else we can say, you will not get affected with COVID-19 at all if you had vaccinated with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) (Vaccine for Tuberculosis) Yes! Sam Behar, and his colleague at the Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts...

Its nice to write here after a long time, how are u all 😊 Nowadays, I'm very much interested in reading something new regarding my subject, "Biotechnology".People say, "oh Tahakik you are bright student, then why you chose Biotechnology? It has no scope. ,😣😣 You won't earn better. You might have chosen Engineering , Pharmacy or medical , UPSC's. something like that..." But, who cares 😐💰💰 I'm loving my subject. Biotechnology is the branch where you can survive only when you are much interested. anyway I'm thirsty , reading a lot for my ongoing and new research project. But, I'm finding it sometimes much difficult to organize and start with. I'm getting hundreds of ideas, but, I find some of them silly, I find  some of them  complicated, I find  some of them  impossible! But, still, with hope in myself and interest in the subject, I'm continuing with them spe...

It was 20th june I believe! I just saw the details of the Maharashtra agriculture research institutions(MCAER) undergraduate programs only a week before the last date. I decided to apply for it and just applied in a hurry actually, yes, it was really a hurry! I was done with everything and sent the application. I was waiting for the release of selected list of candidates from the 25th july They updated the selection list everyday but my name was not on the list till 25th of March!that time i require admission is very essential otherwise my 1 year may spoil or if i took wrong decision may my whole carrier in danger to i remain very cool try to encourage myself because i fail pmt with narrow margin i dont want to took admission for BAMS or pharmacy . I used to go to the MCAER website everyday and check the list, but, my name was not there in the selected list of candidates. I lost all my hope and decided that I won't get selected. But, it happened! I received a mail from the Academ...

I recently published my first research paper in International Journal of research with IMPACT factor (5.6) not only my first in any journal, but also my first as a sole or lead author. I have never written an article for a scientific journal before, though I have experience of scribbling , here in this Blog,  Now, I know enough about how to to write a research article, How to handle research experiment,it's so exciting and fun to learn new things, I've done lots of mistake and learn so many new things also , till before i am not aware all this and  Today I am writing my first Research experience as a UG student here we go.... Yes there are long list of peoples who help me to sucess in writeing a research paper My professor, my juniors my sweet and cute classmate's, & my dear besties, Some FB and Whatsapp frds, and all my wellwishers thank  you very much all....  The path from idea to publication was long, winding and sometimes wandering off in the wrong d...

*What I have Learn....* I have learned lot these past few years... Through my fake smiles and unseen tears... That, friends sometimes aren't forever  that true love doesn't always last .... Happy memories stay with youbut those happy moments go by fast... Words can cut deeper than any sword... Leaving you with something That no man could replace or ever afford.... Sometimes things happen, Sometimes your heart will break  Though to feel real happiness This is what's at stake in order to have the comfort of heaven Your story to live to tell You must also experience the hate-filled life of hell  Remember . . . There will always be someone there Someone that honestly does care  Person can leave your life  Leave you alone with your worries and strife But like pain,the love you once felt cannot from your body depart but only may enter your heart  Trying everything they can to help you  Still you sit there unknowing and blind To what soon you'...