Subject: Science and tech Context: Union Health Minister announced that a paper strip test for COVID-19, named Feluda, will be commercially launched within next few weeks. Concept: Feluda is the acronym for FNCAS9 Editor Linked Uniform Detection Assay. It is an accurate and low-cost paper-based test strip to detect Covid-19 in less than 30 minutes. […]
Subject : Science and tech Context: Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2020 was awarded to three astrophysicists Roger Penrose from the UK, Reinhard Genzel from Germany, and Andrea Ghez from the USA. Concept: Discovery Black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity Black holes were one of the […]
Subject : Science and tech Context: Harvey J Alter and Charles M Riceand Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Concept: What is Hepatitis? Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver. When the liver is inflamed or damaged, its function can be […]
Subject : Science and tech Context :The 2020 Nobel Prizes for sciences announced for scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier bagged the Nobel Prize for Chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing”. The discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors will lead to the emergence of novel biological applications by making it easier […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: Central government may soon announce a national policy on SSR. Concept: Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR) is the confluence of scientific knowledge with visionary leadership and social conscience. It is about building synergies among all stakeholders in scientific knowledge community and also about developing linkages between science and society. It will […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: China announced that it is joining the coronavirus vaccine alliance known as COVAX. Concept: COVAX is co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and WHO. Its aim is to accelerate the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, and to guarantee fair and equitable access for every country […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: Proctored exams are viewed as a technological solution to curb malpractises exercised during online exams. Concept: Proctoring enables students to write a test online in a remote location, while maintaining the integrity of the test. Students must confirm their identity and they may be monitored through video. That video is […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: French-American duo Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for the chemistry of CRISPR, which allows scientists to ‘cut-paste’ inside a genetic sequence Concept: The CRISPR technology The CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, developed in the year 2012 CRISPR […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award one half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for furthering the understanding of black holes, the most “enigmatic” objects in the universe. Concept: A black hole is […]
Subject: Science & tech Context : The prevalence of HIV/AIDS among antenatal women has dropped from 0.27% to 0.18% in Tamil Nadu, according to the findings of the recent HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2019. Concept : HIV attacks CD4, a type of White Blood Cell (T cells)in the body’s immune system. T cells are those cells […]