Maneshwar Dixit is pursuing his Masters in Biochemistry at the University of Delhi. He was selected for the NGS Internship Program this Summer 2019. Maneshwar interned with Dr. Souvik Bhattacharjee at the Special Center for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University. During his time there, he worked on understanding artemisinin-resistant malaria. In this article, he highlights … Continue reading Targeting Ground Zero
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The Guardian, one of Britain’s popular dailies, published an article last year by Stephen Buranyi concerning what he calls “The staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing.” Some companies in the ‘business’, according to him, have annual revenues exceeding a billion pounds. We tend to associate such large-scale businesses with sectors like software, automobile, healthcare, … Continue reading Scientific Publishing- The Need For An Overhaul
Quite recently, I got into a conversation with someone outside my field about the amount of information we are exposed to on a daily basis whether through morning news notifications on our phone, articles on our newsfeed or videos forwarded through messaging applications. He told me that he would often read the headlines and … Continue reading How Science Can Be Disproved
