Imagine a busy Monday morning. You wake up to the sound of your alarm going off, scurry about in your room to get ready for the long day ahead, and hurry to your workplace just in time, or even late at times :) Or imagine sitting in a very busy restaurant, with waiters serving the customers, hurrying to and fro, table to table. Oh! and the kitchens! An ever so organized chaos. Social order and disorder at a glimpse! From the hustle and bustle at home to the way we manage our way through the ever increasing traffic, it’s a chaotic world we live in. But with chaos comes clarity. Clarity of its nature. This chaos that keeps us on the edge. This very chaos, that breeds opportunity. How wonderfully controlled, how wonderfully organized! It's in the air we breathe and the news we read. It partakes in the food we eat and the beverages we drink. It's everywhere, and ever-increasing, all the time! It's an age where its easy to get lost in the screens of our smartphones, an age where...
Hey everyone! I hope you all are safe and doing well. I needn't remind you of the big Corona scare we all are facing. As India prepares for UnLock 1.0, and with the rainy season around the corner, I feel like sharing a bit of what is certain of the biochemistry of the virus behind the COVID-19 disease. (I'm bored, tbh :P ) We know Corona-viruses are a large family of viruses which may cause illness in animals or humans. In us humans, several corona-viruses are known to cause respiratory infections ranging from the common cold "sardi" to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The most recently discovered corona-virus causes the corona-virus disease "COVID-19". Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virions To be honest, this new virus and disease were unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. COVID-19 is now a pandemic affecting many countri...