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A single escaped organism is all it’ll take…

Evolutionary engineer Kevin Esvelt, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, works with gene drives, engineered bits of DNA that can cause a mutation to become heritable all the time. He calls for researchers to create and use safe lab procedures while working with...

Research that lights up lives

Project Prakash. In order to get a first-hand sense of childhood blindness in India, Prof. Pawan Sinha visited a few places in the country, distant from the ambit of urban medical care facilities. Here he is working in a village with a young girl who...

The “Raman Effect”

Abha Sur is part of the humanities faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A physical chemist by training, she taught this subject and also published several papers on laser spectroscopy, her field of specialization. Then, the focus of her research shifted, taking her from...

Tarzan Girl

Margaret Lowman is a pioneer in canopy science, a subset of field biology, and the author of the best-selling Life in the Treetops. She also co-authored It is a Jungle Up There with her two sons. A professor at North Carolina State University and Director...

Antidote to a Neglected Disease

Snakebite, a recent inclusion to the list of neglected tropical diseases drawn up by the World Health Organization, could be the most neglected of all neglected tropical diseases in the 21st century, says David Warrell, Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford....

“Particle Physics At The Crossroads”

Prof. Rohini Godbole, particle physicist, is a researcher at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. In a parallel universe, she would have been a Bank of Maharasthra employee: she was offered a job after she topped Pune University in B.Sc., Physics. “The salary was almost...