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Dr. Ujjwal Rathore, a virologist at the University of California-San Francisco, while being closely involved with coronavirus research has spent a significant amount of time and effort in providing useful advice to multiple members of his family, and others afflicted by COVID-19. In this video (in Hindi), he talks about how to deal with COVID-19 at home, when to seek medical advice and separates facts from fiction. Please watch and share the video widely- science can save lives!

Overall, we got 27 submissions from 26 different participants, representing school, college and industry around the globe. Each of the video was incredible on its own, which made picking winners difficult. After a rigorous judging process, we chose the top 2 in junior category (School students) and top three in Senior category. The video entries have been judged based on the merit of their presentation and quality of communication and not the quality of the content.

Praachi has recently been awarded the Sun Pharma Science Scholar award -2020 in the Pharmaceutical Sciences category. Here, Praachi talks about her strategy and planning to win this prestigious award.

Balaram Khamari is a doctoral research scholar at AMR Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, India. His research focuses on studying antimicrobial resistance mechanisms. Apart from doing incredible science, Balaram enjoys bringing art to science together through agar sci-art that keeps him motivated. Here, Balaram talks about his journey to win 2nd prize in the ASM agar art contest 2020.

Bio Patrika invites entries for Three Minute Vigyan (3MV) video competition. Submit videos on any scientific topic of interest, be it your own research or a well known science topic, to win attractive prizes!!

The Merck Compound Challenge is an annual competition to propose a synthetic route towards a small molecule natural product. Within just two years of its inception, the Compound Challenge has positioned itself as a highly prestigious global event where teams assembled from among the foremost organic chemistry research groups in academia compete for the top prize.

IIT Hyderabad has announced a new B. Tech. program in Biomedical Engineering. This will be a unique program that trains engineers in next generation healthcare technologies and prepare them to work at the frontiers of healthcare innovation in the deep-tech industry or academia.

We gained exponential growth in technology over the past few decades, but the field of drug discovery has remained relatively stagnant. There is a need for re-inventing the drug discovery process with disruptive innovations. The term “disruptive innovation” first coined by Clayton M. Christensen in 1995, describes the innovations that significantly affect the way a

School of International Biodesign-Synergising Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SIB SHInE) is an exciting year-long full time dedicated residential fellowship program jointly led by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) and King George’s Medical University Lucknow (KGMU Lucknow) and sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India.

Biological condensates or bio-condensates or protein droplets are membrane-less organelles formed as a result of proteins liquid liquid phase separation or demixing. It is important phenomenon which was recently discovered and now not only considered important for normal biological functions but also linked to pathological conditions like neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Considering importance of this natural phenomenon, I have compiled list of sources providing video/movie of formation of biological condensates or describing this phenomenon in detail.