Umesh Prasad

Umesh Prasad is a researcher-communicator who excels at synthesizing peer-reviewed primary studies into concise, insightful, and well-sourced public articles. A specialist in knowledge translation, he is driven by a mission to make science inclusive for non-English speaking audiences. Toward this goal, he founded “Scientific European,” this innovative, multilingual, open-access digital platform. By addressing a critical gap in global science dissemination, Prasad acts as a key knowledge curator whose work represents a sophisticated new era of scholarly journalism, bringing the latest research to the doorstep of common people in their native languages.

Mindfulness meditation (MM) reduces Patient anxiety in Dental implant surgery 

Mindfulness meditation (MM) can be an effective sedative technique for dental implant operation conducted under local anaesthesia.  Dental implant surgery lasts for 1-2 hours. Patients...

XPoSat : ISRO launches World’s Second ‘X-ray Polarimetry Space Observatory’  

ISRO has successfully launched the satellite XPoSat which is world’s second ‘X-ray Polarimetry Space Observatory’. This will carry out research in space-based polarisation measurements...

Prions: Risk of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) or Zombie deer disease 

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), first detected in 1996 in the United Kingdom, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow’ disease) and Zombie deer disease or Chronic Wasting Disease...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems Conduct Research in Chemistry Autonomously  

Scientists have successfully integrated latest AI tools (e.g. GPT-4) with automation to develop ‘systems’ capable of autonomously designing, planning and performing complex chemical experiments....

‘Fusion Ignition’ demonstrated fourth time at Lawrence Laboratory  

‘Fusion Ignition’ achieved first in December 2022 has been demonstrated another three times to date at National Ignition Facility (NIF) of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...

COVID-19: JN.1 sub-variant has higher transmissibility and immune escape ability 

Spike mutation (S: L455S) is hallmark mutation of JN.1 sub-variant which significantly enhances its immune evasion capability enabling it to effectively evade Class 1...

Anthrobots: The First Biological Robots (Biobots) Made from Human Cells

The word ‘robot’ evokes images of human-like manmade metallic machine (humanoid) designed and programmed to automatically perform some tasks for us. However, robots (or...

COP28: “The UAE Consensus”calls for transition away from fossil fuels by 2050  

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) has concluded with an agreement named The UAE Consensus, that sets out an ambitious climate agenda to...

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