HIV: History & Science
"The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Perhaps the most infamous virus in medical history. It is the cause of a disease for which there is no cure, and whose natural history is ultimately death. EGO Columnist Ali Haider gives a rundown of a little history, science, and future of this disease.View |
Stem Cell Research BLIND FAITH vs. SCIENCE Stem cells have become a magical term these days, eliciting the kind of reaction that the Muslim world had to Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Ayesha Khanna investigates the hoo-hah and science behind stem cell research. View |
A Medical Intern’s Overnight Call Encountering everything from drug abusers to an 80 year old man who thinks it's 1975, to the infamous Code Blue, which means a means a patient is pulseless or 'crapping out', we run down hospital halls, frantically begin CPR and draw blood cultures with Ali Haider: all part of a long chaotic Saturday night spent as an medical intern in NYC. View |
Rational Unified Process Ayesha Khanna and Charles Peterson discuss the importance of the Rational Unified Process, or RUP, in the context of business analysis for an equity trading system. RUP represents an organized way of gathering business requirements and building a software system given a well-defined project goal. View |
Podcasting From blogging to audio blogging (popularized as podcasting) to video blogging, the Web has allowed everyone to become publishers, radio DJs and TV personalities to a seemingly infinite audience. The technology underlying the ability of podcasting is RSS or Really Simple Syndication. View |
The Biological Clock As more and more South Asian women enter the workforce, couples are pushing back the time when they’ll have their first child. Dheepa Chari speaks to Dr. Frederick Licciardi, a leading specialist in in-vitro fertilization and egg donation in New York, to discuss fertility options for couples in their thirties and beyond. View |
Memes The concept of meme (pronounced ‘meem’) comes from Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene, which explores how a gene propagates itself across generations. A cultural meme or idea, so to speak, would be similar to a genetic meme in the sense that it has the ability to live beyond the life of the organism. View |
Mathematical Laws Of Biology Since the sequencing of the human genome, biology seems to be moving forward in leaps and bounds. But is it really? Jurgen Kaljuvee takes an entertaining but hard look at the lack of mathematics and the consequent slow progress that is becoming the bane of modern biology. View |
Blueprint Blues Cancer means many different things to us: for some of us, it is the painful memory of a loved one who experienced it, and for others, it is a personal journey of trial and recovery. But few know that cancer is really the result the blueprint of the organism - our DNA - becoming vitiated, and that the true culprits of cancer are mutated genes. View |
Google and the Erdos Number What do the greatest mathematician of the 20th century Paul Erdos and the Google search engine have in common? It turns out that the way Google ranks its searches is based on an age-old concept - that it is better to be talked about by a few smart people, than to be talked about by many mediocre people. View |
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EDITOR
Dheepa Chari |
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COLUMNISTS
Ayesha Khanna |
Jurgen Kaljuvee |
Ali Haider |