On Wednesday, the Indian Council of Medical Research invited bids for an estimated 10 lakh antibody kits (for serological tests) for the diagnose of COVID-19.The kits have to be supplied to 6 locations– Dibrugarh, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad,…
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How Technology is Helping to Fight Coronavirus?
Goa Ministry of Health introduces its App( Test Yourself Goa) to fight Coronavirus-India’s First Automated Self-evaluation Assessment to Identify At-Risk Patients for COVID-19.SARS coronavirus 2, which is causing the Covid-19…
Population Pyramid-Why is Italy the worst affected?
One of the reasons being attributed as to why Italy is the worst affected country in terms of mortality by the COVID-19, is it's ageing population. It becomes important to…
Tools of Monetary Policy
Tools of Monetary Policy are as follows: REPO RATE (Tools of Monetary Policy) • Repo rate (rate of repurchase) refers to the interest rate at which the RBI provides short-term…
Nanotechnology
NANOTECHNOLOGY Nanotechnology is the study of controlling matter on an atomic and molecular scale, i.e., at a size of 1-100 nanometer (1 billionth of a metre), and it involves developing…
Gene Therapy
GENE THERAPY Genes, which are carried on chromosomes, are the basic physical and functional units of heredity. Genes are specific sequences of bases that encode instructions on how to make proteins. Although genes get…
Genetically Modified Organism
GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using techniques of genetic generally known as recombinant DNA technology. Recombinant DNA technology…
Stem Cells
STEM CELLS Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body. Serving as a sort of repair system for the body, they can…
Essential Commodities Act
What are essential commodities? The government has powers under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (EC Act) to declare a commodity as an essential commodity to ensure its availability to people…
Urban Commons
What are 'Urban Commons'? Commons, then, as the historian Peter Linebaugh (2009) reminds us, involve “being-in-common”, or using resources in more or less shared, more or less non-subtractable ways through…