Biology to the Rescue?

By KIM BELLARD I feel much about synthetic biology as I do AI: I don’t really understand it from a technical point of view, but I sure am excited about its potential. Sometimes they even overlap, as I’ll discuss later. But I’ll start with some recent developments with bioplastics, a topic I have somehow never…

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Monkeypox : Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis & Treatment

WHO has declared monkeypox or Mpox a global emergency and pandemic, given the recent outbreak in multiple countries across the world. The Mpox virus is native to Africa, but 2022-2023 has seen Mpox outbreaks in more than 110 countries. A highly infectious disease, Mpox has already infected over 1 lakh people and has already claimed…

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