Neuroscience – Nanditha’s Neural Nebula

Role of infections in atherogenesis of cerebrovascular diseases

Introduction Traditionally atherogenesis has been considered within the domain of non communicable lifestyle diseases affecting the affluent sections of human population while communicable diseases and infections have been the cause of languish in the developing world. However the lines of division between these two high mortality disease causing pathologies are increasingly becoming blurred compelling usContinue reading “Role of infections in atherogenesis of cerebrovascular diseases”

Evolution of Oxygenators in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Introduction Darwin famously said that it is not the strongest of species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Indeed we humans are the only creatures existing on this planet who have managed the feats of flying without wings, swimming without gills and even breathing without lungs which isContinue reading “Evolution of Oxygenators in Cardiothoracic Surgery”

Is Magnetogenetics the new Optogenetics?

Any medical student would agree that one of the most pressing issues that drives most of us to tears of desperation is “How on earth do we commit so much factual information into our memory?!Hence if someone were to claim that it was possible to zap one’s brain with mere light to selectively activate orContinue reading “Is Magnetogenetics the new Optogenetics?”

Optogenetics and the Manipulation of Memory

INTRODUCTION Any medical student would agree that one of the most pressing issues that drives most of us to tears of desperation is “How on earth do we commit so much factual information into our memory?!” So after yet another unsuccessful attempt at rote learning the tongue twisting names of hundreds of drugs for anContinue reading “Optogenetics and the Manipulation of Memory”

Hypoglycins- Humbugs or Heroes?

The heads of all the adult men in the village were clean shaven. However, this was not merely a new sartorial trend in the village of Muzaffarpur or a way to beat the heatwave ongoing in the month of June 2019, the second longest ever recorded in the region. The actual reasonContinue reading “Hypoglycins- Humbugs or Heroes?”