India doesn't need to lead the world in building the most advanced AI models. But it must lead in ensuring benefits of AI are widely shared. @rvenk and I have an op-ed in The @EconomicTimes economictimes.indiatimes.com…

New post! @NikoMcCarty and I have been writing regular round ups for a little while now, but so much has happened recently that this month’s What's New in Biology post feels like it contains a year’s worth of breakthroughs. worksinprogress.news/p/whats… The most effective weight-loss drug so far, cancer breakthroughs, gene editing for cholesterol, ancestral CRISPR systems, a cure for some with hepatitis B, the first PROTAC drug, and more. Read it here!

As the controversy escalated, Dr. Sejal Pawar has made her Instagram account private. Here is the full story - On Pranit More’s stand-up show, Sejal jokingly revealed how she and her friends sometimes checked the size of male cadavers' private parts and made fun of them. If a male doctor had cracked a joke like that it, would have turned into a huge scandal; he would lost his job, and his licence would have been at risk. What is your opinion on this ?

Dear parents Go to an ophthalmologist if your child's number is increasing very frequently. DONT just go to the neighborhood spectacle shop. They will simply check the number and give your child new glasses. Nope. The correct way is to dilate the pupils (the pupils of the pupils hahahaha) and then get the number. The ophthalmologist will do this. This will , to a large extent, unveil ACCOMODATIVE SPASM of the eye muscles ( due to continuous strain due to excessive screen use) . Then the doctor will share ways to get rid of ACCOMODATIVE SPASM, excessive dryness of eyes and treat any allergic component. It may well turn out that your child did NOT need the new, stronger glasses. Ahem , the child may even be an 18 yr old. VISIT THE CORRECT SPECIALIST DOCTOR for your ailments . Another eg: for a child with heart concerns, go to a pediatric Cardiologist.

Cheers, chills, and a standing ovation when RASolute 302 showed unprecedented survival on daraxonrasib for patients with progressive pancreatic cancer Seldom do you sense you’re witnessing a historic moment in cancer care but this feels like ras targeting has arrived #ASCO26

PM Modi's #MannKiBaat came & went without a mention of the NEET, CBSE & CUET mess. Let's not pretend this is beneath the Prime Minister's attention. We have seen the full communication apparatus mobilised over far smaller matters. Photo ops, speeches, tweets & inaugurations for projects of purely local significance. When millions of students are affected, however, the country is expected to accept silence. Strange priorities for a nation that calls its youth its greatest asset.

Folks complaining about Indian doctors and waiting times... ...do think about what is happening in any country outside india. Go ahead ...US? UK?Canada? Sure there is plenty to improve in our system ...but unnecessary delay is not one of the flaws. Actually doctors everywhere in the world, would NOT want their pts to wait needlessly.

Every single one of the points are a real problem. But your understanding is broken, let me explain. :) Norway has 55 lakh people. Total. That’s smaller than the population of Pune. Their entire country has fewer citizens than India’s 25 smallest cities individually. Norway also has 1.2 trillion dollars in sovereign wealth from oil reserves, accumulated over 50 years. They have $250,000 per citizen sitting in the fund. India has roughly $3,400 per citizen in forex reserves. Norway is what you get when a small population sits on top of one of the largest per-capita oil discoveries in human history. The right comparison is other low-income, high-population, post-colonial democracies. Brazil. Indonesia. Nigeria. Bangladesh. Pakistan. Egypt. Mexico. South Africa. Vietnam. Philippines. Compare on these and India isn’t doing badly. It’s doing better than most. UPI is the world’s largest real-time payments system. Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric identity system. We absorbed the global pandemic, the Ukraine war, the West Asia conflict, Trump’s tariffs, the Iran war, and a rupee fall without going into recession. Most of those countries above did. Pakistan went to the IMF 24 times. Sri Lanka collapsed. Bangladesh is unstable. Egypt needed emergency Gulf bailouts. Argentina has 60% inflation. We stayed standing. India is the only country in human history to add a trillion dollars of GDP every 18 months. We added our first trillion in 2007. Our second in 2017. Our third in 2024. Our fourth coming in 2026. The problems you mentioned exist in every large, low-income, high-density country on earth. Mexico City’s pollution is worse than Delhi’s. Manila’s traffic is worse than Mumbai’s. Lagos has worse road quality than Delhi. Jakarta has worse air than Delhi. Cairo has worse adulteration. Karachi has more corruption. Hanoi has higher pollution. None of these countries are run by Modi. They’re all dealing with the same impossible math. Industrialising a country of 145 crore people during a global energy transition, with limited natural resources, while keeping democracy intact, is the single hardest governance challenge in human history. > China did it without democracy. > South Korea did it with a population one-tenth our size. > Japan did it with no major religious or linguistic diversity. > Singapore did it with 50 lakh people total. Nobody has done it at India’s scale, with our diversity, in democratic conditions. So when someone asks “why hasn’t Modi built one city like Norway,” the answer is because building one Norway requires not having 144.5 crore other Indians to look after.

Everyday I see someone here hyping that Aamchi icecream. And apparently the brand is Gujarat based and has got nothing to do with the real "aamchis". #IYKYK

Is there even a single person in India whose passport was made without paying a bribe? 😭 Are any of you here that lucky? And if not, how much did you have to pay?

In oncology we say one size doesn’t fit all, but if there are any drugs that work in almost all cancers, they have to be platinum drugs especially Cisplatin and Carboplatin. The simplest, effective and cheapest drugs that have no replacement in several cancers are out of stock in most hospitals in India, leaving patients and families to suffer with no treatments even in curable cancers. The global supply chain has been massively impacted, so are the import rates and manufacturing rates. While capping prices of drugs is a welcome move, flexibility that is reviewed dynamically is the need of the hour, a 50% rise in capped price of a 200 rupees drug that is life saving should be accommodated as the cost of lives lost is going to be much more. Request @narendramodi @PMOIndia @JPNadda @MoHFW_INDIA @AmitShahOffice to resolve the situation ASAP

In talking about this whole language issue. I learnt Kannada rather late in life. In Bengaluru, where one can get by perfectly well without it. I still made that effort. Now that I am running an MSME in Mysuru, the payoffs are obvious. My Kannada is not the best. But, I do have to talk to our workforce and give speeches to them. They know that I make grammatical errors. Some of them correct me gently and I learn. But they appreciate the fact that I make that effort to speak to them in their language. I think that effort is what matters.