Scientific India - March - April 2021

In this issue

Era of Living materials
Nature manufactures a multitude of complex, hierarchical, multifunctional ‘living’ materials – including bone, wood, tissue, and organs. Advances in modern biotechnology over the past few decades have enabled scalable manufacturing of multiple ‘non-living’ materials (e.g., chemicals, fuels, pharmaceuticals) produced by a variety of wild-type and engineered microorganisms.
In this issue, we have also explore other interesting topics like Million-year-old DNA of mammoths, An insight into Equine Microbiome!, Benefits of Exercise during Pregnancy etc.

Era of Living materials

Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that can conduct electricity or emit light.

4 mins

Million-year-old DNA of mammoths

The oldest DNA ever recovered from an animal is adding new chapters to mammoth life history, going back more than 1 million years.

1 min

An insight into Equine Microbiome!

The microbiome is the genetic material of all the microbes - bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses - that live on and inside the human body. The number of genes in all the microbes in one person's microbiome is 200 times the number of genes in the human genome.

5 mins

A memory without a brain

Brain, the mass of nerve tissue in the anterior end of an organism. The brain integrates sensory information and directs motor responses; in higher vertebrates it is also the centre of learning.

2 mins

Benefits Of Exercise During Pregnancy

Exercise during pregnancy may let mothers significantly reduce their children's chances of developing diabetes and other metabolic diseases later in life, new research suggests.

2 mins

More than 140000 virus species identified in the human gut

Gut microbiota, gut flora, or microbiome are the microorganisms including bacteria, archaea and fungi that live in the digestive tracts of humans and other animals including insects.

2 mins

Technological glitch leads to selection of wrong delicious menus

Fast food has not gotten much healthier in past two decades, study says. When it comes to the calories, sodium and saturated fat per serving in fast food, not much has changed since 1996, according to a recent study

3 mins

Gulf of Mannar Marine Biosphere Reserve

Biodiversity refers to the diversity of all life forms and at Ball levels of organization.

3 mins

Microplastics in Mussels, Oysters and Scallops

Generally, everyone is well aware of plastics and its disadvantages. Plastics are not biodegradable as natural leaves or natural materials.

4 mins

Electrical control of weeds

Weed menace all around have been an age Wold phenomena but with changing climatic conditions, easy and frequent movability of people, use of imported seeds etc. have further helped in their (weeds) growth all over the regions.

5 mins

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