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.

Craspase : a new safer “CRISPR – Cas System” that edits both Genes and Proteins  

“CRISPR-Cas systems” in bacteria and viruses identify and destroy invading viral sequences. It is bacterial and archaeal immune system for protection against viral infections. In...

ISRO Launches Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission  

Chandrayaan-3 moon mission will demonstrate ''soft lunar landing'' capability of ISRO. This mission will also demonstrate lunar roving and conduct in-situ scientific experiments. The...

Megatooth Sharks: Thermophysiology explains both its Evolution and Extinction

Extinct gigantic megatooth sharks were at the top of the marine food web once. Their evolution to gigantic sizes and their extinction are not...

Brain-eating Amoeba (Naegleria fowleri) 

Brain-eating Amoeba (Naegleria fowleri) is responsible for brain infection known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). The infection rate is very low but highly fatal....

Dementia: Klotho Injection Improves Cognition in Monkey 

Researchers have found that memory in aged monkey improved following a single administration of low-dose Klotho protein. It is the first time that restoring...

Eukaryotes: Story of Its Archaeal Ancestry

The traditional grouping of life forms into prokaryotes and eukaryotes was revised in 1977 when rRNA sequence characterisation revealed that archaea (then called 'archaebacteria')...

COVID-19 Not Over Yet: What We Know of the Latest Surge in China 

It is perplexing why China chose to lift zero-COVID policy and do away with the strict NPIs, in winter, just before the Chinese New...

Self-amplifying mRNAs (saRNAs): The Next Generation RNA Platform for Vaccines 

Unlike conventional mRNA vaccines which encodes only for the target antigens, the self-amplifying mRNAs (saRNAs) encodes for non-structural proteins and promotor as well which...

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