Author: Biotech Express

Nowadays in every part of globe protests against vaccine mandates and lockdowns have become common but political parties everywhere are still not giving up chances to favor pharma profiteers and mainstream news media is not covering such events. A convoy of truckers and others who oppose vaccine mandates has rolled into Ottawa, Canada for a weekend of rowdy protests, putting Canada’s capital city on edge amid warnings from police that they don’t know how large the crowds will get. The demonstrators have been hailed as heroes by anti-vaccine groups on mainstream and alternative social media platforms. Thousands of protesters pile…

In an interview by Eenadu TV recently I mentioned that although Omicron infections go up, its effect on causing serious disease and death is minimal. Now I confidently say that even though it infects the vaccinated people, it is very feeble. This is already seen in US and other European countries. For example, this week the average number of Covid cases in the US is about 600,000 to 700,000 and the average deaths are about 1400-1600. A vast majority of these are due to Covid 19 or Delta variant, not due to Omicron. This translates to about 1 death for…

Prof K C Bansal (April 24, 1955) is currently the Secretary of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), India and has more than 40 years of research and research management experience of working with different institutions of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Department of Agricultural Research and Education, Govt. of India, and abroad like United Nations as a technical expert representing India at FAO, Rome and Geneva. Prof Bansal headed a premier central institution of ICAR at Pusa, New Delhi i.e., the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), which has five Divisions, three units and an experimental…

“India is majorly an agrarian country where around 70% of its population lives in villages. Each and every villager is a practical agricultural scientist, practicing it from thousands of years. Farming is in people’s DNA and thus India has the inherent inclination and natural technical capacity to produce and supply organic food not only to country but to global agriculture supply chain which can further enhance India’s GDP” Dr Heera Lal, IAS and Additional Mission Director, National Health Mission, Uttar Pradesh. In an informal talk to Biotech Express he talked about his various ongoing of the project Model Gaon. …

In an interview with CNBC, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla stated that two doses of the vaccine give modest protection, if any, whereas three doses with a booster offer reasonable protection against hospitalisation and mortality but less protection against infection.  It’s worth noting that Bourla once stated that two doses of the mRNA vaccine were 100 percent effective in preventing the illness. Bourla sought to rewrite the entire COVID narrative in a series of interviews, while also casting serious doubt on the efficiency of his current product line. The reaction has come after a tight slap on pfizer by U.S. district…

Though it is not clear whether positive test is equal to infection as corona infection is seen mild now in almost all cases. But even as coronavirus cases and restrictions questions have been rising across the country when recently political leaders from various parties held large public meetings in various parts of country and attended events without wearing masks. The visits come at a time when they have been urging citizens to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and wear masks to prevent the spread of the virus. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been campaigning across the state of UP since December. On…

The Coronavirus pandemic has created an authoritarian Covid bureaucracy consisting of politicians, public health leaders, and perpetually fearful elites.. Bureaucracy’s covid mitigation rules are so ridiculously irrational and unscientific that Marty Makary, MD of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the US, calls it a “pandemic of lunacy.” Their response to Omicron, the newest variant of the Wuhan Covid-19 virus, falls in the same category – they are redundant, mindless, unscientific, and uncompassionate, said Avatans Kumar in an article written in Times of India Dec. 25, 2021. Close to two years into the pandemic, while many countries collect and disseminate…

Abstract People and organizations all around the world are now questioning COVID-19 existence and hype that have been created by scientific personalities at the top of whom is Dr Fauci, a topmost health professional in USA who is followed by scientific fraternity around the world. But this hype is now diminishing after few pioneer people from US itself starts questioning work ethics of Fauci and NIH which according to them is nothing but a stunt to impress the political leaders to gain their positional advantages like funding etc., to propagate the agenda of population control and pharma profiteering. Though the…

Healthcare is an essential component in all human beings’ lives as each individual wishes to have a happy, healthy, and wealthy lifespan. A team led by Prof. Gajendra P. S. Raghava has developed a collation of computational tools that could be beneficial for biologists and non-biologists. The recent review published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery throw light on how computational resources play a vital role in healthcare. The Healthcare sector became more digitalized and advanced due to the evolving informatics-based fields like medical informatics, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, pharmacoinformatics, immunoinformatics, and clinical informatics. These domains generate a huge…

The XVIII BRSI convention and the International Conference on Biotechnology for Resource Efficiency, Energy, Environment, Chemicals, and Health (BRE3CH2021) was jointly organized by the CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India and the Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI) in association with the International Bioprocessing Association, France; the Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability (CEES)-India; CDC Jaipur and International Solid Waste Association (India chapter). The event was hosted by CSIR-IIP, Dehradun. Dr. Anjan Ray, Director, CSIR-IIP, Dehradun was the Patron of the event. Prof Sudhir Sopory, President of the BRSI was the conference chair, and Professor Ashok Pandey, Distinguished Scientist, CSIR-IITR…