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.

Iboxamycin (IBX): a Synthetic Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic to address Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR)

Development of multi-drug resistance (MDR) bacteria in the past five decades have led to increasing research in search of a drug candidate to address this AMR...

Fluvoxamine: Anti-depressant can Prevent Hospitalisation and COVID death

Fluvoxamine is an inexpensive anti-depressant commonly used in mental healthcare. Evidence from the recently concluded clinical trial suggest that it can be repurposed to treat...

Chinchorro Culture: Mankind’s Oldest Artificial Mummification

The oldest evidence of artificial mummification in the world comes from pre-historic Chinchorro culture of South America (in present Northern Chile) which is older than Egyptian by about two...

Discovery of the first Exoplanet Candidate outside our Home Galaxy Milky Way

Discovery of the first exoplanet candidate in X-ray binary M51-ULS-1 in the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), also called the Whirlpool Galaxy using transit technique by observing dips...

Variants of Coronavirus: What We Know So Far

Coronaviruses are RNA viruses belonging to coronaviridae family. These viruses display remarkably high rates of errors during replication due to lack of proofreading nuclease activity of their polymerases....

COVID-19 and Darwin’s Natural Selection among Humans

With the advent of COVID-19, there seems to be a negative selection pressure working against those who may be genetically or otherwise (due to...

Nitric Oxide (NO): A New Weapon in Fight against COVID-19

Findings from recently concluded phase 2 clinical trials in Canada and the UK suggest nitric oxide (NO) could be very helpful in preventing and...

Mars 2020 Mission: Perseverance Rover Successfully Lands on the Mars Surface

Launched on 30th July 2020, Perseverance rover has successfully landed on the Mars surface at Jezero Crater on 18th February 2021, after travelling almost seven months from...

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