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Covid Strain: Good Or Bad ?

    Photo Courtesy: Author  B19_ Are the new corona strains, a good signal or are we doomed ?        Photo Courtesy: Biopharma Reporter We are all very well aware of the fact that , The coronavirus has mutated a lot. Well it's perfectly normal for a virus to mutate and create new variants. But the question that arises is how it's going to affect us.     Variants are a result of change in the protien structure of the virus , the proteins are the outermost structures on the virus that comes in contact with the human cell first foremost. Now, while the virus is creating copies or duplicates it sometimes miscopies and the spike protein structure is changed.     Photo Courtesy: Scientific American  It's good for us that there's a very slight probability of such new virus being effective and be able to do any harm. Most of these variants usually die and are harmless, but still there are some c...

WHY DO WE AGE ?

B9_AGEING _______________________________________ Most people think that ageing is  something which is out of this world and beyond understanding.  On the contrary  ageing is just a biochemical phenomenon which I have explained in this blog . After reading this blog  you will be able to understand ageing and get the answer of the question " Why do we age ? "  _______________________________________ Almost everything that you see around rusts or gets corroded or  simply ages. Almost everything is made out of  Carbon Atmospheric changes ( like moisture) overtime result in change of chemical composition of non living things. Hence we can say that they age with time . But what about living things ? Like plants and animals and us humans ? _______________________________________ Human Ageing 🧓🏼 Plants and animals are made up of  Deoxiribose nucleic acid   DNA  . Theoretically, there are ...