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From digital change to Digital India, these quotes from the week of May 24-30 capture tech impacts sweeping across the world.
How Jarvis Invest is helping nervous investors decode the stock market 4 Figuring out the right mantra to make money in the stock markets can be tricky for most rookie investors, unless they have the penchant for it like legendary investors Warren Buffett or Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. For many Indians, trading on the bourses is riddled with confusion primarily because of a lack of credible information. Sumit Chanda, CEO of FinTech startup Monitree, had observed this time and again during his 17 years in the banking, financial services, and insurance industry. It is common for retail investors to de...
Gina Babauta suffers from a rare neuromuscular disorder called Myasthenia Gravis. On Saturday, she admitted herself for her usual treatment at Scripps La Jolla. Everything seemed pretty normal up until around dinner time. She waited over 40 minutes on the phone to place an order with the cafeteria. “They answered and they said, ‘We can’t help you, we aren’t...
As the numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India continue to mount, Time magazine now describes how public health officials are carefully watching yet another looming threat: the appearance of mutations that could be making the virus circulating there more infectious or more capable of causing severe disease. Scientists believe that the variants of SARS-CoV-2 responsible for this second wave of cases in India already include at least two mutations that make them more dangerous. These mutations are already familiar to COVID-19 experts. One is found in a variant first identified in South Af...
NEW YORK â A team of U.S. scientists, led by an Indian American researcher, has identified a set of human genes that fight SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19. According to Sumit K. Chanda, professor and director of the Immunity and Pathogenesis Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, the scientists have gained new insights into how the virus exploits the human cells it invades. "We are still searching for its Achille's Heel so that we can develop optimal antivirals," Chanda said in a paper published in the journal Molecular Cell. Knowing which gen...