BIOINFORMATICS
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Saturday, 23 January 2016
Plastic becomes the killer for the Human life on Earth
Plastic is widely used
in our day to day life. Starting from a pen to a polythene bag in which we
carry fruits and books are forms of plastic. Though convenient in our day to
day use, it has posed an alarming threat to the environment.
Plastic is
non-biodegradable and do not decay by biological actions of microbes. They
remain in the same state as we throw them. So, dumps or garbages are created
making our cities and soil polluted.To destroy plastics, we can either recycle
or burn them. If we burn plastic, they emit harmful chemical gases like carbon
dioxide (CO,), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrous oxide (NO), methane (CH4), sulphur
dioxides (SO2), etc. These gases pollute our environment, though in negligible
content, they add to green house effect and endanger our environment.The wastes
of plastic block pipes and sanitary lines so that dirty water came out on
roads. This cause fear of malaria, cholera and other diseases.The wastes of
plastic bags, bottles, etc. are drawn to a sea or an ocean by rivers and they
are deposited in them. They pollute and disturb the eco-system of the sea or
the ocean.Due to wide scale use of plastic, water, soil and air pollutions are
caused. These polluted components of environment lead to imbalance of various
ecosystem of the Earth.Only solution to this plastic hazard is to take preventive
measures are as follows:-
a. To reduce use of
plastic wherever possible
b. To use recyclable bags
and things
c. To recycle the used
plastic
d. Not to throw used
plastic here and there
e. To collect the used
plastic by the Government and then to recycle them
f. Only recyclable
plastics should be allowed to use
g. Some legal norms
should be declared.
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Overusing Antibiotics create problem for health
The use of antibiotics increases day by day worldwide,
overuse is one of the
factors that contributes towards the growing number of bacterial
infections which are becoming resistant to antibacterial medications.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,overuse in
the USA is a problem particular in Southeast. According to the European
Centre for Disease Prevention and Control antibiotic resistance
continues to be a serious public health
threat worldwide. In a statement issued in 19th November 2012, the ECDC
informed that 25,000 people die each year due to antibiotic-resistant
bacterial infections. New ECDC data has shown that there has been a
considerable increase
over the last four years of combined resistance to multiple antibiotics
in E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in over one third
of EU and EEA (European Economic Area) nations. Consumption of
carbapenems, a major class of last-line antibiotics, increased
significantly from 2007 to 2010. "Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose
himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the
drug, make them resistant," said Alexander Fleming, speaking in his
Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1945.
As predicted almost 70 years ago by the man who discovered the first
antibiotic, drug resistance is upon us.
Sunday, 4 November 2012
USE COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
USE COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Computational biology involves the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry, and biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level. The core principle of these techniques is using computing resources in order to solve problems on scales of magnitude far too great for human discernment. Research in computational biology often overlaps with systems biology. Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions, and the modeling of evolution.
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