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Epigenetics
Why are twins so different even though they have the same genetic material? or why does a liver cell not behave like a muscle cell...

Garvit Arora
Jan 10, 20212 min read
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Introduction Thanks to the pandemic, you must have heard what about one of the PCR's clinical application. That's right! - testing for...

Garvit Arora
Oct 12, 20202 min read
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Liquid Biopsy: The Future of Diagnosis
Why does cancer become so fatal? What can we do to reduce its severity? are the two questions this post will try to answer. In the...

Garvit Arora
Oct 2, 20203 min read
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Medicine to Regenerate Heart after a Heart Attack.
Ever heard of Myocardial Infarction (MI), well it is a fancy term for Heart attack. It is a cardiovascular disease that causes more than...

Garvit Arora
Jul 31, 20202 min read
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Who Committed the Crime? Let's Find Out!
INTRODUCTION It would be quite safe for me to say that no two people share the same DNA sequence. However, if I were to tell you that...

Garvit Arora
Jun 10, 20203 min read
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DOES VITAMIN C BOOST YOUR IMMUNITY?
Vitamin C, also known as Ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin which means that it is not stored, and any excess is removed from our...

Garvit Arora
May 14, 20202 min read
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Your Guard Against Microscopic Freeloaders.
MECHANISM OF INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE We are born with a natural barrier that does not distinguish between different pathogens, this barrier...

Garvit Arora
Apr 12, 20205 min read
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Your Guide to COVID-19
ORIGIN The consensus after studying the spread and the genome of the virus COVID-2019(Coronavirus diseases) is that it likely originated...

Garvit Arora
Mar 19, 20204 min read
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Tumour Suppressor Genes
INTRODUCTION We know that cancer is a result of errors in cell cycle caused by the activation of certain oncogenes such as RAS and MYC....

Garvit Arora
Feb 26, 20202 min read
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Coronavirus
INTRODUCTION It is a group of viruses that affect mammals and can lead to mild to severe symptoms which are linked with respiratory...

Garvit Arora
Jan 25, 20203 min read
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Oncogenes: The Agents of Cancer
In 2017, cancer caused approximately 600,000 deaths in the US alone, which roughly accounted for 21.3% of the total deaths that occurred...

Garvit Arora
Jan 4, 20201 min read
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Regulation Of Cell Cycle
To regulate the cell cycle, there are checkpoints which occur at different intervals. These checkpoints evaluate if a cell should or...

Garvit Arora
Jan 4, 20202 min read
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CRISPR. A Pair of Scissors to Change Humanity
CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Inter-spaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Now, that's overwhelming but what it actually means is that...

Garvit Arora
Sep 7, 20192 min read
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