Agantuk's Desk – Explore, Implore, Reverberate
Explore, Implore and Reverberate
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Learning to draw 3D illustrations like DNA, nanoparticles, WBC, COVID-19 virus, etc., using the Blender tool, which has been used to make the Oscar-winning film Flow.
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With the advent of 2020, a new global health crisis has broken all over the world. Again a virus is wreaking havoc in people’s lives. Yes, we are talking about the novel Coronavirus which has virtually shut down China and put the whole world at risk. With the disease reaching as far as the…
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#UnderstandignHIV #AIDS #WHO #WorldAIDSDay #December1 AIDS patients suffer from a range of secondary diseases like Tuberculosis, Hepatitis or Cancer and eventually die of them. Owing to the seriousness of the disease, the World Health Organization ( headquartered in Geneva ), has designated December 1 as a World AIDS Day in order to highlight the menace…
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Originally posted on ViroBlogy: Ian Mackay of Virology Down Under fame (or notoriety B-) today alerted me to a new paper on the evolution of viruses – which is being touted via press releases as being something that “…adds to evidence that viruses are alive”. To my mind at least, it does nothing of the…
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Originally posted on ViroBlogy: I have previously posted a number of articles on “molecular archaeology” of viruses, and how one can use extant sequences, archived tissue samples, or even blood of pandemic survivors to speculate on the origins of specific viruses, of viruses generally, or on the nature of old pandemic strains.Now HIV falls under…
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Originally posted on ViroBlogy: This was originally written as an Answer to a Question posted to Scientific American Online; however, as what they published was considerably shorter and simpler than what I wrote, I shall post the [now updated] original here. The answer to this question is not simple, because, while viruses all share the characteristics of…
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