Chandrayaan-3 Mission: ISRO’s Epic Return to the Moon

“Chandrayaan-3’s launch took place on 14 July 2023 at 2:35 pm via LVM3 heavy-lift launch vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.” Chandrayaan is a multiple-missioned Indian Lunar Exploration Programme to unravel the secrets buried under the lunar surface. Chandrayaan-1 was launched on 22 October 2008 using a PSLV-XL rocket. It was successful …

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Vitamin D can reduce heart attacks and cardiovascular diseases, a research study suggests.

Vitamin D can reduce heart attacks and cardiovascular diseases, a research study suggests.

Vitamin D, as per a study published in 2017 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology indicated the correlation between vitamin D supplements and improved cardiovascular health. Therefore, the role of vitamin D in cardiovascular diseases and heart attacks has become a broad research area. The D-health trial was conducted in Australia to …

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Revolutionary 3D Bioprinting: A Game-Changer for Organ Transplantation

In India, as per the organ donation statistics for 2022 by Health Resources & Service Administration, 133,319 people are waiting for organ transplantation. Of these, 90,311 are only for kidneys, followed by 11,336 for the liver and 3,347 for the heart. And only 9,664 are the fortunate ones who received transplantation. But nearly 50-60% of …

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FDA Approves First Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in Children

Recently, on 22nd June 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the treatment of 4-5 years old children diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy by gene therapy. It would be the first time that the FDA approved such treatment where the mutated DMD gene (causative gene of the disease) is being corrected by …

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Exploring the Promising Future of Nanobots in Biomedical Science

In the realm of science and healthcare, the future is being shaped by a groundbreaking innovation: nanobots. These microscopic robots, measuring mere nanometers, hold the potential to transform biomedical science as we know it. Imagine a world where diseases are diagnosed with unparalleled precision, drugs are delivered directly to target cells, and surgeries are conducted …

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HETEROCHROMIA, a rare condition in human eyes

Have you seen anyone with two different eye colours? I believe most of us have never encountered someone like that, but this rare condition exists in humans. It is also observed more commonly in some animals such as cats and dogs, and the condition is called heterochromia. Heterochromia | Image Credit: Yahoo Introduction HETEROCHROMIA means …

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SciCommversation Ep. 2 with Rashmi Sheoran (Astro Roxy)

Hello everyone! Welcome to ScienceCept, a scicomm and science blogging website. Today, we are going to have our second episode of SciCommversation which is an initiative by ScienceCept to feature avid science communicators and talk about their journey and experience and try to know their perspective on the future of scicomm. So, our science communicator …

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How do black holes die? – An insight into Hawking Radiation

Black holes are one of the fascinating things about the universe that people want to know about. Though Einstein’s theory of relativity influenced further studies that predicted its existence back then in the early 1900s, we are still trying to get the exact picture of the black hole. Well, Black holes are the regions in …

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The truth behind why living in space is risky for humans.

The human body is the most advanced, self-learning, and highly sophisticated biological machinery. Humans have been exploring lives on earth and adapting our bodies to the changing environment. For decades, scientists have been looking for ways to live on the moon, travel in space, walk on Mars, and be multi-planetary citizens. We have witnessed space …

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What is Gene Therapy?

If you recall Mendel’s experiment of inheritance with the pea plant Pisum sativum, he stated that some factors transfer from parents to offspring, and he called those factors ‘alleles’. Now, these are called genes. With Mendel’s foundation of genetics, many scientists forwarded their work to genetics. Gene Mutation is one such concept of genetics, defined …

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