REGEN COV Subject: Science & tech Context: Regeneron to seek US approval for COVID-19 cocktail to be used for prevention. Concept: REGEN-COV, a combination of casirivimab and imdevimab, protected household contacts from exposure to SARS-CoV-2, with 72 per cent protection against symptomatic infections in the first week, and 93 per cent after that, […]
INDUSTRIAL & MEDICAL OXYGEN Subject: Science & tech Context: Consumption of medical oxygen doubled in five days in Gujarat. Concept: Medical Oxygen Medical oxygen is the oxygen which we use to treat patients. We use it to maintain enough oxygen level in our blood. Oxygen therapy is the use of oxygen as a […]
VIPIT Subject: Science & tech Context: The curious case of VIPIT: Studies needed to identify susceptibility markers, diagnostic tests, treatments. Concept: The United Kingdom, European Union, and Scandinavian countries have reported that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine appears to be associated with rare cases of serious blood clots, including blood clots in the brain. […]
ONE WEB Subject: Science & tech Context: OneWeb to provide services in Kazakhstan. Concept: OneWeb is a global communications company founded by Greg Wyler. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and McLean, Virginia, United States. OneWeb was formed with a mission to offer high speed, low latency wireless broadband access to […]
REMDESIVIR Subject: Science & tech Context: India Bans Export of Anti-Viral Drug Remdesivir amid Surge in Covid Cases Concept: Remdesivir is designed to obstruct the stage of replication, when the virus creates copies of itself, followed endlessly by the copies creating copies of themselves. Once the virus enters the human cell, it releases […]
CURIOSITY ROVER Subject: Science & tech Context: Using observations made by ChemCam instrument on Curiosity rover at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars, a French–US team of scientists has deduced that water did not disappear from Mars at one go, but that it alternated between dry and wet conditions before drying up […]
LITHIUM ION BATTERIES Subject: Science & tech Context: Researchers from IIT Guwahati have developed a technique to improve the performance of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which power most of the portable devices used today. Concept: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded to Stanley Whittingham, John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino for work […]
mRNA VACCINE Subject: Science & tech Context: France extends gap between mRNA vaccine shots to ramp-up rollout. Concept: In RNA vaccines, the messenger RNA from the pathogen is used. The mRNA means messenger RNA, which carries the genetic formula for the coding of a specific protein. The vaccine, when injected into a person […]
ANISOTROPY Subject : Science & tech Context : Non-uniformity of Himalayas foresees significantly large earthquake events Concept : Anisotropy is the property of a material which allows it to change or assume different properties in different directions as opposed to isotropy. It can be defined as a difference, when measured along different axes, […]
AEFI Subject : Science & tech Context : 180 people died after vaccination in India till March 29, over 6 crore inoculated by then. However, the data does not reflect if the deaths were caused due to the vaccine. Concept : Adverse events following immunization (AEFI) As vaccine-preventable infectious diseases continue to Adecline, […]