Sumedha B S, Bangalore University Alzheimer’s Disease- Cause Of Dementia In Older Adults Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking- a neurodegenerative disease. This damage initially takes place in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus. It later affects areas in the cerebral cortex, which are responsible for language, reasoning, and […]
Arka Acharyya, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara We live on a rotating planet and that has an immense impact on Chronobiology. Like humans and other animals, plants also have an ‘internal clock’ that controls the daily and seasonal rhythms. According to the plant scientists of Cambridge University, the genetic architecture of circadian oscillators should […]
Koustav Maiti, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara The monarch butterflies ( Danaus plexippus ) are very special migratory insects, traveling a vertebrate-like long distance of 4000 km, each year to reach their overwintering ground in Central Mexico. These butterflies use various survival strategies during migration. At low temperatures, they roost in the tree branches […]
