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WORLD'S HEALTH DAY IS APRIL 7TH; HEAR WHAT DOCTORS HAVE TO SAY

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  ​World Health Day is celebrated every year on April 7 | Representational image What is health?  Health is “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease” according to the World Health Organization (WHO). You may have come across the phrase “Health is wealth,” which simply means when a person lives a healthy spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional lifestyle becomes the richest person in the world. Living a healthy lifestyle has numerous benefits. It helps you to prevent chronic diseases and long-term illnesses. Therefore, to raise awareness about the overall health and well-being of people across the globe, World Health Day is celebrated every year on April 7. It is an initiative taken by the World Health Organization. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” -Gautam Buddha Each year there is a specific theme for World Health Day. The theme for World Health Day 20...
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The wonders of Genetic Engineering

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  The CRISPR/Cas9 system has been revolutionary in the world of genetic research. However, as genetic engineering moves into human applications, it's now time to ask: what benefits can this bring? And, how far is too far when it comes to altering the human genome? Genome editing techniques have been around for decades; in 1973, the first transgenic organism was created by the insertion of antibiotic resistance genes into  Escherichia coli , which was quickly followed by the first transgenic animal – a mouse – a year later. Since then, it has been applied across all areas of biology, from creating bacteria that could break down crude oil to increasing the shelf life of tomatoes [ 1 ]. However, it was the introduction of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in 2012 [ 2 ] that kick-started the rapid development of gene editing technology into the widely practiced technique that it is today. Thousands of papers on CRISPR are published each year, with the rate increasing annually. It seems that ...
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