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On the Nature feature about the Sarafs, a rare disease, and time
Heidi Ledford has a tragic and powerful story published yesterday in Nature, about a team of scientists at the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology racing to develop a CRISPR treatment for Uditi Saraf, a young girl whose brain was … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Op-eds
Tagged CRISPR/Cas9, FENIB, FSSAI, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Ministry of AYUSH, Natelco, neuroserpin, rare diseases, Rema Nagarajan, Uditi Saraf
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What about the celebrities in food ads?
The row over Bournvita last month was spurred by a social-media influencer’s viral video of the product’s allegedly unhealthy sugar content. Following a legal threat from Mondelez International India, which makes Bournvita, the influencer deleted his video and apologised. But … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Culture, Scicomm
Tagged Ayurveda, Bournvita, Department of Consumer Affairs, FMCG, FSSAI, news literacy, surrogate advertising
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What about the celebrities in food ads?
The row over Bournvita last month was spurred by a social-media influencer’s viral video of the product’s allegedly unhealthy sugar content. Following a legal threat from Mondelez International India, which makes Bournvita, the influencer deleted his video and apologised. But … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Culture, Scicomm
Tagged Ayurveda, Bournvita, Department of Consume Affairs, FMCG, FSSAI, news literacy, surrogate advertising
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A trumpet for Ramdev
The Print published an article entitled ‘Ramdev’s Patanjali does a ‘first’, its Sanskrit paper makes it to international journal’ on February 5, 2020. Excerpt: In a first, international science journal MDPI has published a research paper in the Sanskrit language. … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm
Tagged Acharya Balkrishna, Ayurveda, FMCG, FSSAI, MDPI, objectivity, peer review, pseudoscience, psoriasis, science journalism, scientific publishing, The Print, Withania somnifera
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