HE SARS-COV-2 IS MUTATING, SAY SCIENTISTS
Focus: Science and Technology Why in news? Senior scientists at Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), have said the virus dubbed SARS-CoV-2 is mutating, after analysing the 115 published genome sequences from the current COVID-19 outbreak. Some of these ‘errors’ in the virus known as ‘mutations’ may be significant […]
PM MODI CALLS FOR COVID-19 EMERGENCY FUND FOR SAARC
Focus: GS-II International Relations, GS-III Science and Technology, Disaster Management, Prelims Why in news? The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) should create a fund to fight the threat of COVID-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on 15th March 2020 – Addressing the first ever video conference among the heads of governments of the […]
HACKERS MAY HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR SMART DEVICE
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology Why in news? iPhone, iPad, Amazon Echo or Kindle or certain handsets from Google, Samsung or Xiaomi, is exposed to have a vulnerable WiFi chips that allowed hackers to access data from the handset. Once a hacker gets access to any device for even a short period of time, they […]
EU RAISES ALERT AS VIRUS TOLL CROSSES 3,000
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology Why in news? The death toll from COVID19 outbreak surpassed 3,000 on 2nd March 2020 as more people died in China, Iran and the U.S. and Europe raised its state of alert. The new coronavirus, also called SARSCoV2, has now infected more than 89,000, spread to over 60 countries and […]
HEALTH OUTCOMES OF DISPLAYING ART IN HOSPITALS
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology Why in news? Art creates an atmosphere where patients feel safe, socialise, connect with the world outside. A highly cited research report published ago by a group of Danish researches (Nielson et al, “How do patients actually experience and use art in hospitals? The significance of interaction: a user-oriented experimental […]
EXPLAINED | WHY IS COVID-19 NOT A PANDEMIC YET?
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology Why in news? On February 26, for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak began in China on December 8, the number of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) cases reported in a single day was more outside mainland China than within the country. All about the Spread of Corona Virus Coronaviruses are […]
SHANGHAI LAB THAT FIRST SEQUENCED CORONAVIRUS GENOME SHUT DOWN
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology Why in news? A Shanghai-based lab — Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & School of Public Health — at Fudan University which was the first to sequence the whole genome of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and publicly share the data on January 11 was shut down on January 12 for […]
NCBS METHOD TO DETECT VIRUS ASSOCIATED WITH A RARE SKIN CANCER
Focus: GS-III Science and Technology, Prelims Why in news? A team from National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, has developed a diagnostic system to detect the presence of Merkel cell polyomavirus in Merkel cell carcinoma tumours. The researchers have developed a test using the CRISPR-CAS12 technology. This is an important development, both, from the point […]
Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulation Bill proposes national registry of clinics
Why in news? The Union Cabinet on 19th February 2020, approved the Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulation Bill, 2020 to monitor medical procedures used to assist people to achieve pregnancy. India and ART India has become one of the major centres of this global fertility industry, with reproductive medical tourism becoming a significant activity. This has […]
What is Dark Web?
The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets, overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access The darknets which constitute the dark web include small, friend-to-friend peer-to-peer networks, as well as large, popular networks like Tor, Freenet, I2P, and Riffle operated by public […]