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Insulin Vaccine To Become An Option For Diabetics; Cheap Pill To Be Introduced In Market Soon

Gunjan ChaudharyMay 2, 20220

There is good news for patients suffering from type 1 and type 2 diabetes across the country, as they will no longer have to rely on expensive insulin vaccines. The cheap tablet is also going to come into the market. This will soon be possible through the research of scientists from the School of Basic Science, IIT Mandi. According to lead researcher Dr Prosenjit Mandal, his team has discovered a new molecule, PK2 that is effective in the treatment of diabetes. It initiates the secretion of insulin from the pancreas in patients. A cheap drug can be made for the treatment of diabetes in patients. The research findings have also been published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, this year. Scientists from ICMR-IASRI have also played an important role in completing the research pape...

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Death Of Rational Thinking Dates Way Back: Study Reveals

Snehashish RoyJanuary 17, 20220

A new study conducted by the scientists at Indiana University and Wageningen University and Research (WUR) reveals that humanity has slipped into a state where people believe facts based on their emotional quotients and not by rationality. This public contempt for scientific facts is a result of a process that has been in the works for the last couple of decades. The study highlights that humanity has started to make a move towards a time that philosophers term as the "post-truth era," and it is driven by emotions instead of rationality. The public's apathy towards truth began almost four decades ago. Ideally, there is a generalised accepted genesis of the "post-truth" era -- during the time when impulsive irrationality was at an all-time high in the socio-political landscape afte...