Table Of Contents Cellular Jail Krishi Megh Student Entrepreneurship Programme Recession Tyagaraja Mega lab and Genome sequence Safety and Immunogenic of vaccine Environmental Performance Index 1. Cellular Jail Subject: History Context: Ministry of Tourism organises Independence Day themed webinar titled “Cellular Jail: Letters, Memoirs & Memories” under DekhoApnaDesh webinar series Concept: The lives […]
Subject: Environment Context: Debate over draft EIA 2020 Notification shed lights on poor ranking of India in Environmental Performance Index report Concept: In 2018, India ranked 177thout of 180 countries and in 2020, ranked 168th out of 180 faring badly on virtually all indicators — environmental health policy, biodiversity and habitat, air and water pollution […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: Vaccine trials bring importance of Safety and Immunogenic of vaccine Concept: Immunogenicity is the ability of a foreign substance to enter a person’s body and cause an immune response. A great example of immunogenicity is a vaccination. When a person gets vaccinated, they are injected with a very tiny amount of […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is working on developing “mega labs” to ramp up testing for COVID-19 as well as improve the accuracy rate. Concept: These labs will be repurposing large machines, called Next Generation Sequencing machines (NGS), which are normally used for sequencing human genomes, to […]