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Today as we enter a New year, we bring to you a retrospect of the marvelous scientific advancements and developments in the year 2021. We interacted with a few of our colleagues at CSIR-IGIB for their views and opinions regarding the scientific advancements in various fields of science. While relishing the memories of the past year let us hope that we will be able to cross more milestones this year and step into pandemic free upcoming years! References: Landmark Alzheimer’s drug approval confounds research community- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01546-2 Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2 Neuroprosthesis for Decoding Speech in a Paralyzed Person with Anarthria- https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2027540 Transneuronal delivery of hyper-interleukin-6 enables functional recovery after severe spinal cord injury in mice- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20112-4 Placental endocrine function shapes cerebellar development and social behavior- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00896-4 mRNA Vaccines - https://www.modernatx.com/pipeline/therapeutic-areas/mrna-therapeutic-areas-infectious-diseases Solar expedition - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries Four seasons in 2050 – A musical composition - https://www.campaignasia.com/article/vivaldis-four-seasons-reimagined-for-2050-with-climate-data/466028 A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex- https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.29.446289v4 Seasonal Malaria Vaccination with or without Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention- https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2026330 Genetically engineered pig kidney transplantation in a brain-dead human subject- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/xen.12718 Biodegradable plastic- https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abh0626 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03408-3 Chimeric contribution of human extended pluripotent stem cells to monkey embryos ex vivo- https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00305-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867421003056%3Fshowall%3Dtrue#%20 The Mars Rover, Perseverance- https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Magnetic Field Structure near The Event Horizon- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe4de Music: Lockdown by Sascha Ende® Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7658-lockdown License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

विश्व एड्स दिवस पर आम लोगों से चर्चा के बाद, एड्स और उसकी जागरूकता पर हमारे कुछ विचार। On World AIDS Day, we are discussing about status of AIDS awareness and misconceptions among common public. Music: Lockdown by Sascha Ende® Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7658-lockdown [https://filmmusic.io/song/7658-lockdown] License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license [https://filmmusic.io/standard-license] #HIV #AIDS #WorldAIDSDay #stopthestigma #endinequality

A peek into the current advancements in technology on National Technology Day 2021. This year's theme for National Technology Day was 'Science and Technology for a sustainable future'. In this podcast, we interviewed Dr Viren Sradana to get to know a glimpse of what motivates the scientists and how they approach scientific problems. We cover a broad range of topics in the discussion like the Covid 19 pandemic, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and many more. Interviewer: Dr Kedar Padia, PhD Scholar, CSIR-IGIB Editors: Jeyashri Rengaraju, K Sangeetha, PhD Scholars, CSIR-IGIB Episode 1 Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/341Q92cr1fRTh4fyZJOUfy?si=bvDOWmxuS8ix3_rprXh_dg [https://open.spotify.com/episode/341Q92cr1fRTh4fyZJOUfy?si=bvDOWmxuS8ix3_rprXh_dg] National Technology Day - Interview with Dr Debojyoti Chakraborty: https://youtu.be/ratYmgP2HQ0 [https://youtu.be/ratYmgP2HQ0] Deep Dives: 1. Mars Rover "Perseverance": * https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/brains/ [https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/brains/] * https://youtu.be/M4tdMR5HLtg [https://youtu.be/M4tdMR5HLtg] * https://youtu.be/yqqaW8DCc-I [https://youtu.be/yqqaW8DCc-I] * https://youtu.be/1ePgJAqhXgY [https://youtu.be/1ePgJAqhXgY] * https://youtu.be/4czjS9h4Fpg [https://youtu.be/4czjS9h4Fpg] 2. Swasth Vayu: * https://youtu.be/yDtKBXOEsoM [https://youtu.be/yDtKBXOEsoM] * https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1686357 [https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1686357] 3. Multileaf Collimator: * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multileaf_collimator [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multileaf_collimator] * https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info/linac [https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info/linac] Stay Tuned For More...

On National Science Day 2021, we are commemorating Raman effect with researchers at CSIR-IGIB by indulging into general discussion on day to day science issues.