Kavikumar

Graduate student at IIT Kanpur

[Indian Society of Cell Biology @ISCB_1976]

🎤 Meet the speakers at the 48th All India Cell Biology Conference and Symposium at IIT Kanpur!

Get to know the pioneering scientists, groundbreaking researchers, and thought leaders shaping the future of cell biology. In this series, we spotlight our invited speakers—each bringing unique insights and discoveries to the forefront of the field.

🎓 Join Us for the Presidential Address!
We’re thrilled to announce that Prof. Thelma, President of The Society and esteemed researcher from the University of Delhi, South Campus, will deliver the inaugural Presidential Address on Day 1 of the conference.
She will share insights from over a decade of groundbreaking work on identifying genetic risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis in the Indian population, including her pioneering therapeutic research using mouse models.

🚨 Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the leading voices in the field!

📝 Register today and be part of this transformative event: https://t.co/hvoeFkm3Ks

📅 Explore the full conference program here: https://t.co/hU3UHNZTOw @NitinRammohan @majhi_ra @indian_hydra @saip_pydi @surithakur86 @abandopa @DebdeepDutta21 @ANRF @DBTIndia @bushraiitk @IndiaBioscience @IITKanpur @mfcem_iitk @BSBEIITK1 @UnivofDelhi

[Kavikumar @IamKavikumar]

The All India Cell Biology Conference is coming to IIT Kanpur this year! It’s a great chance for researchers to share their work at one of India’s biggest conferences. Register by September 30 — don’t miss it!

[Indian Society of Cell Biology @ISCB_1976]

📢 Deadline Extended!
Registration & abstract submission for the 48th All India Cell Biology Conference & Symposium @IITKanpur is now open till September 30, 2025!
📍 Dec 7–9, 2025 | Theme: From Cell to Therapeutics
🏆 25+ Student Awards
👉 Register now: https://t.co/ftXouBVfIk

[IIT Kanpur @IITKanpur]

🚨 Revolutionizing Diabetes Care — No Fridge Required! 💉🔥

A major leap in insulin innovation is here, straight from @IITKanpur 🇮🇳

Prof. Sandeep Verma & Prof. S. Ganesh have developed next-gen thermostable human insulin analogs that resist heat, avoid fibrillation, and retain full biological activity — even in challenging storage conditions. 🌡️🧬

🌍Why it matters:

For millions of people with diabetes, daily insulin injections are non-negotiable. But insulin’s tendency to degrade under heat or during transport puts lives at risk — especially in resource-limited or tropical regions.

🔬What’s the breakthrough?

The new analogs:

✅ Show prolonged thermal stability

✅ Resist fibrillation far longer than native insulin

✅ Preserve bioactivity in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo

✅ Achieve added stability via π–π stacking & hydrogen bonding

🚀Enter Stablin Biosciences — a biotech startup born from this innovation!

🔬Now advancing toward TRL 6–7, the team is actively seeking funding for pre-clinical trials in higher animal models to push this life-saving solution toward reality.

📖Read the full research published in Nature Communications Chemistry:

🔗 https://t.co/ABdZyBHuqM

💡A homegrown solution with global health impact — ensuring safe, stable insulin access anytime, anywhere. Proud moment for India’s med-tech ecosystem! 🇮🇳💊

#IITKanpur #StablinBiosciences #ThermostableInsulin #InsulinInnovation #DiabetesCare #GlobalHealth #BiotechIndia #MedTech #TRL7 #MadeInIndia #HealthcareEquity #ColdChainFree #FutureOfMedicine #BiotechStartups

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

🚨Trigger: human suffering.

In March, Brijesh Solanki, a state level Kabbadi player, was rescuing a puppy from a drain when it bit him. He took it lightly and didn't report. Months later, he developed rabies and died.

Mexico faced a major rabies crisis in the 70s-80s, with thousands of deaths annually from dog bites, but became the world’s first country to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies in 2019.

This was achieved through mass dog vaccination (80%+ coverage), public awareness, strict policies, and prompt bite response. Since 2006, Mexico has reported zero dog-related human rabies cases, leading WHO to declare it rabies free in 2019.

In contrast, India remains the rabies capital of the world, with over a third of global deaths, yet the issue barely enters public discourse. Even animal rights groups don't mind discussing humane solutions like sterilization and vaccination, but for reasons unknown, the govt stays silent. Sab muh mein dahi jama ke baithe hain.

[Indian Society of Cell Biology @ISCB_1976]

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
The 48th All India Cell Biology Conference and Symposium is coming to IIT Kanpur! 🎉 Mark your calendars for December 9th–11th, 2025. Stay tuned for details and check out the official poster. Don't miss it! 🧫✨
#CellBiologyConference #IITKanpur #ScienceEvent

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

A woman was admitted to my Liver ICU.

She was jaundiced since five days.

Her eyes were a deep yellow, her bilirubin levels were 23 mg/dl (normal <1.2)

She was in altered behaviour since three days. When she was in my ICU, she was unresponsive and gasping. We put her on a ventilator to protect her airway.

Her blood tests showed that she was "acidotic" - meaning, she had a build-up of acid in the bloodstream due to failing kidneys.

We put her on continuous renal replacement therapy or CRRT a special type of dialysis that we do for unstable patients in the ICU whose bodies cannot tolerate regular dialysis. Instead of doing it over four hours, CRRT is done 24 hours a day to slowly and continuously clean out the waste products and fluid from the patient.

She went into shock and her blood pressure fell, because her heart was failing due to a failing liver and the intense inflammation ravaging her body. We started her on vasopressors, a type of medication that help constrict blood vessels, which can increase blood pressure and inotropes, a group of medications that help increase the force of heart muscle contractions, which can improve blood pumping efficiency.

She had no pre-existing liver disease. In fact, she was hale and hearty just a week ago, travelling and spending time with her family. Now she was on a ventilator, in multiple organ failure - an event brought on by a sudden failure of her liver functions.

A catastrophic condition called acute liver failure, when a devastating insult overwhelms the healthy liver's ability to regenerate and it shuts down rapidly, dragging all other organs to hell with it.

As part of this process, due to the failing liver, ammonia, a toxic waste byproduct of metabolism, drastically increases in the blood, crosses the blood brain barrier, goes into the brain cells, causing them to alarmingly swell, leading to brain failure - a condition called hepatic encephalopathy - the hallmark of acute liver failure.

A failing liver also brings about another disastrous event. Severe thinning of the blood - called coagulation failure, because the liver is what makes the proteins that help maintain balance in clotting/bleeding activity. The INR or international normalized ratio, that looks at the clotting function of the blood was 6 in her (normal ~ 1).

Her brain swelling worsened so badly and so rapidly that her brain fell down through the holes at the base of the skull - a condition called herniation. It was instant brain death.

She is on full on supports. The tubed-machine is breathing for her. The CRRT machine is doing what her kidneys were supposed to do and the vasopressors and inotrope drugs were forcefully making her heart beat and pump until they fatigue and give away.

An ultimate event that was likely to happen tonight. She will die. I spoke to her sons and told them this is what it was going to be. Their healthy, beloved mother who was smiling and laughing with them last week, was now going into the dark without even the chance for them to say proper goodbyes.

They asked me for a space in the ICU for them to complete their religious ceremonies for the dying so that she can go in peace and unto God. I allowed them.

She will die tonight.

But before she did, we found the cause for her liver failure and eventual death.

Unani.

Unani medications given for osteoarthritis of the knee. She took it for 4 months, up until her symptoms started. And now she was going away.

This is the prescription. I could not retrieve the products, which was about 100km away, at their home. A cousin in the family promised me that he will get them to me for analysis because I told him the greatest probability for her avoidable death were those Unani medications - toxic herbs, liver toxic adulterants. I will analyze them for their understanding, spending money from my pocket, like I always do, for victims of alternative medicine.

Unani is to the Muslim community, what Ayurveda is to the Hindu community. Both are pseudoscientific practices without any benefits whatsoever, but with well documented harms. Some fatal.

If you have to make a choice for your healthcare, make sure it is modern, science-based medicine. Because it is not built on lies and deception. But objective evidence and understanding of benefits vs. risks.

Choose the science, because it does not dramatize to promote, but only acts to your benefit.

[Arjun Ramakrishnan @cognoman5]

Excited to host the Innovations in NeuroTech workshop at IIT Kanpur! Exciting lineup of speakers from across India, Rice University and UT Health!

[IIT Kanpur @IITKanpur]

In recognition of his enduring contributions to institution-building and groundbreaking discoveries in cancer research, IIT Kanpur confers upon Professor Pradip Sinha the esteemed title of Institute Fellow 2023.

Invited to join IIT Kanpur as a visiting faculty member in June 2001, Prof. Sinha played a pivotal role in spearheading the BIO initiative supported by a grant from the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS). His visionary leadership led to the establishment of the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE) in September 2001, where he served as the Founding Head until 2010. Under his guidance, BSBE emerged as a national center of excellence in research and education in biology and bioengineering.

A trailblazer in cancer research, Prof. Sinha has utilized Drosophila as a model organism to explore fundamental cancer mechanisms that are difficult to study in humans. More recently, his lab has made significant strides in understanding squamous cell cancer mechanisms, holding immense biomedical and therapeutic potential.

Prof. Sinha’s illustrious career continues to inspire future generations of researchers.

#LegendsofIITK #InstituteFellow #IITKanpur #iitk #FoundationDay #foundationday2024 @Director_IITK @EduMinOfIndia @DoRA_IITK @kanpur_iit @mfcem_iitk @MehtaFF

[The Dalit Voice @ambedkariteIND]

The husband of a 5-month pregnant woman had died some time ago. After her husband's death, the government hospital administration forced her to clean the bed. The incident took place in Dindori, Madhya Pradesh.

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[Kavikumar @IamKavikumar]

Companies like LG charges premium prices by highlighting their quality and after sales support but the truth is just the opposite. People should avoid taking products from LG because of this poor after sales service.

[Kavikumar @IamKavikumar]

Very poor after sales service from @LGIndia. My monitor had some issues and raised complaint on august 20 and it is now almost 2months but still problem is not resolved. No proper response from LG customer care or from the service center. After sales service is joke in India

[Mehta Family Center for Engineering in Medicine @mfcem_iitk]

Lively participation, loads of fun and amazing display of creativity at the recently held BSBE &amp; MFCEM Joint Painting Competition on 14th September.
@MehtaFF @BSBEIITK1 @DoRA_IITK @IITKanpur

[Neil Borate @ActusDei]

Sign of the times

[Ravisutanjani @Ravisutanjani]

BSNL Don’t Offer Home Delivery for SIM

While Jio and Airtel Do It, Service Across India

India Post Don’t Offer Pickup From Home

While Delhivery and Bluedart Collects Parcels From Home Easily

Private Players Are Beating Govt Companies Because They Are Not Innovating Fast

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

Cut the funding.
Increase custom duty.
Remove tax exemption.
Make purchase complicated.
Double the paperwork.
And thn give us lectures on becoming Science Superpower.
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We academicians will still vote 4 u &amp; serve ur committees w/o any collective protest bcoz v r apolitical

[Ravisutanjani @Ravisutanjani]

UP Has 6.28 Lakh Government Teachers

They Protested Against Online Attendance

We Pay Income Tax &amp; GST So That So-Called Government Teachers Can Take a Nap

[Anurag Agrawal @AnuragAgrawalMD]

Hope to see a rollback on this change. It will be extremely damaging to R&amp;D otherwise. The science departments should take the lead in getting this done @DBTIndia @IndiaDST @CSIR_IND

[Santosh Chauhan @Chauhanlab_ILS]

Please tell me this is a misprint So that I will delete this. Lab chemicals custom duty increased from 10% to 150%? How we do research and whether funding agencies will compensate by reducing expectations or providing more funds? @serb @DBTIndia @ICMRDELHI

[Amazing Credit Cards @AmazingCreditC]

World class infrastructure 🤡

This person lives in a posh area owns a BMW M340i, Mercedes Class probably pays the highest amount of tax and this is what he gets in return.

We are doomed!!