A vaccine or cure for COVID is the most anxiously awaited development at the moment. There are at least 60 teams working on different approaches to a vaccine, this article is about one such vaccine. Moderna, a US-based company developing a vaccine called mRNA-1273 for COVID, has announced they may begin a limited rollout of…
Category: biology
Coronavirus: what we know
I had basic questions about the coronavirus but wasn’t able to find answers, until a friend pointed me to a podcast. It is called The Daily, produced by the New York Times, and it features an interview with Donald G. McNeil Jr., a health and science journalist. The interview addresses questions about the coronavirus —…
Notes on Gene Machine by Venki Ramakrishnan
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 was awarded to three people including Venki Ramakrishnan. Ramakrishnan is an American-British-Indian scientist who played a key role in discovering the atomic structure of ribosomes. He wrote a book titled Gene Machine, chronicling the ribosome breakthrough, which was published in 2018. Ribosomes are present in cells of living…