Science Talks

S wine flu is termed because the virus that first caused disease had originated from pigs. Swine flu has spread to more than twenty countries across the world. Facts : Swine flu is an acute respiratory virus. It spreads through the medium of air. Swine flue also referred to as H1N1 and swine influenza is caused by the swine influenza virus. Symptoms of Swine flu resemble those of the seasonal flu such as coughing, sore throat, fever, chills, extreme tiredness, muscle aches, and diarrhea. Swine flu first surfaced in April 2009. It affected millions of people and then in June 2009, it was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Swine flu spreads rapidly and the mortality ratio is relatively low. WHO has assigned pandemic alert level 5 to swine flu. This level indicates that human to a human outbreak of swine flu is high. An interesting fact is that many virologists and scientists have the view that the H1N1 virus may not have evolved naturally and w...

G enomics is the study of genomes and their interaction with the environment. G enomics is an interdisciplinary field of science focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping & editing of Genomes. A genome is an organism’s complete set of DNA, including all of its genes.  What Genomic tell us: Assured with this "code of life", Scientists and entrepreneurs are exploiting genomic information to improve health, increase productivity in agriculture, forestry and fisheries and help clean up the environment. Genomics approaches for improving salinity tolerance in crop plants. (1) Functional Genomics : Functional genomics is a field of molecular biology that attempts to make use of the vast wealth of data given b genomic and transcription projects to describe gene functions & interaction. (2) Current Genomics : Current Genomics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of genomics. It was established ...