Shrikant Pradhan

Cell Culture Scientist @MPI_CE

[Dr. Hannah Rowland 🐛🐤 @HannahMRowland]

Mightiest congratulations & ¡Salud!🍻@FrancescaProtti on submitting your PhD thesis today! @MPI_CE

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill.

Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me):

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[Paola Andrea Rubiano Buitrago @Pao930528]

Happy to announce the last chapter of my PhD is out!! The final step in my attempt to understand the journey that cardenolides go through in tri-trophic interactions. This paper was a beautiful team effort I'm proud to be part of it ❤️ https://t.co/whv3EYrKQt

[Shrikant Pradhan @shrikanpro]

@rajeevmbbt @PNASNews Congratulations @rajeevmbbt 🍾🍾🍾

[Rajeev Ranjan @rajeevmbbt]

Thrilled to share our latest research in PNAS! We introduce a groundbreaking approach for identifying key transcription factors for a process. Using this, novel transcription factors regulating lipid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis were discovered. https://t.co/Bi4VUDocdZ @PNASNews

[Bill Hansson @billhansson]

Congratulations Megha! Excellent thesis defense!

[Shrikant Pradhan @shrikanpro]

36 Fridays of 2023 with our team!

[bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv_ecology]

Influence of plant defense signaling and innate insect metabolic differences to the overall performance of fall armyworm (Spodoptera ... https://t.co/sUkrp0jDUv #biorxiv_ecology

[Shrikant Pradhan @shrikanpro]

@HannahMRowland @Pao930528 Congratulations @Pao930528 🍾🍾🎉🎉

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3

[Paola Andrea Rubiano Buitrago @Pao930528]

Happy to share! We tried to answer the question.. Are you actually what you eat? What if what you eat is poison?_bug edition🤓 @HannahMRowland @shrikanpro @bioarach https://t.co/EkIiGSekY2

[Shrikant Pradhan @shrikanpro]

@HannahMRowland @FrancescaProtti @bioarach @Pao930528 The resemblance is uncanny 🤣🤣

[Dr. Shab Mohammadi @FrontlineEvo]

I hold in my hands the resurrected Na,K-ATPases of the ancestor of birds, aka a dinosaur, dating from 150-165 mya. ⁦@HannahMRowland⁩, ⁦@shrikanpro⁩, and I are working on some cool science 🧬🦠🦖 at ⁦@MPI_CE⁩ and ⁦⁦@unihh⁩

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

This would be the biggest comedy of errors in Indian media in last few months.

The Indian Express puts out a news title claiming that Ayurveda advises consuming jalebi+rabri (type of Indian sweet) for management of migraine.

BUT, the actual content of the news deals with debunking this misinformation which was initially put up on Instagram by an Ayurvedic practitioner.

Now, the apex pseudoscience authority in India, Ayush, does a "fact check" on the pseudoscientific news piece and warns people and The Indian Express NOT to print such claims - when the news content was actually fact-checking and debunking the very pseudoscientific claim.

But the real comedy comes when Ayush themselves start patronizing Ayurveda by misinforming the public that migraine is well described in Ayurvedic texts and MANY STUDIES on benefits of Ayurveda on migraine is published in literature (there is none actually)

Ayurvedic texts do not describe migraine but mentions "headache" in general in the chapter on "Diseases of the Head" and talks about treatments that include putting cow and goat urine in the nose, burning the patient's skin, making the patient consume fats+sugars (probably where the idea of Indian sweets came in) and more importantly, instilling blood of animals in the nose and making patient smell fumes of rotten fish to drive away bacteria and worms causing headache.

This is real Ayurveda.

Do not, for ONCE believe what AYUSH is telling you. It is the biggest disinformation campaign on Indian public health.

[Shrikant Pradhan @shrikanpro]

@tapasya_s Congratulations to both of you!! 💐💐

[Baptiste Piqueret @Dr_Piqueret]

🐜Ants paper incoming !🐜
We demonstrated that #ants can detect #cancer presence in the urine of mice graft with human breast tumour after a short training 🧑‍🔬

https://t.co/vYxN6WFCar

In @RSocPublishing. Researchers from @univ_spn @CNRS @institut_curie @InstUnivFr @LEEC_USPN

[Shrikant Pradhan @shrikanpro]

@HannahMRowland @FrontlineEvo Hahaha

[Paola Andrea Rubiano Buitrago @Pao930528]

After some years of trial and error and endless HPLC injections. This moment in life is called happiness🤭 Excited to share: https://t.co/8PZvmIH7Xw #mdpimolecules via @Molecules_MDPI

[Shrikant Pradhan @shrikanpro]

Environmental photographer of the year 2022 – in pictures https://t.co/16VmSn3hDJ