The Blog Of Dysfunction

Just Discovered Seed a really good science magazine. From an article about succesfull mapping of fruitfly sperm genome.

You can’t make a sperm cell with ten proteins; you need hundreds and maybe thousands.”

Microbes make stink

In this month’s issue of the journal Ecology, Georgia Institute of Technology biologist Mark Hay and his colleagues found that microbes make rotting food stink so they can compete with bigger predators that would otherwise scavenge the food source.

Snippets of unusal science

Men, does your size make you insecure? Do you think an extra inch or two would make you a successful lover? Well, it turns out your fears are well-founded!

As usual blame games go on as people suffer due to inept health care delivery system in our dear india

The head of the State AIDS Control Society, confirmed that 18 people with AIDS had recently died in and around the large town of Bhuj. But according to the head of India’s National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), there was no evidence that the deaths were caused by AIDS.

The pharma debate: Paswan Vs India?

A leading global non-government organisation recently requested Cipla to bring down the price of an anti-retroviral drug to fight HIV/AIDS—a drug which it manufactures and supplies under a global programme—and Cipla obliged by cutting the price by half. It obviously made a trade off between margins and public image. Civil society in India has to be informed, credible and tenacious, not like Paswan, who is seen to have a personal populist agenda and therefore considered all right to play games with.